Wolves 'will get results soon'

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Mick McCarthy claims his Wolverhampton Wanderers side have shown they can cope with the best in the league and results will come soon that can help them climb out of the relegation places.

Wolves have not won a game for over a month and that was a Carling Cup victory over League One Notts County. In the league they have not tasted victory since the opening day and as a result they sit firmly rooted in the bottom three with only the beleaguered West Ham below them.

They were defeated by leaders Chelsea at the weekend, and now have to face Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal in their coming three games and the Premier League betting  suggests Wolves will continue to struggle for another few weeks.

McCarthy reckons his side can take some encouragement by the fact they caused Chelsea "many problems" at Stamford Bridge and managed to handle them "as well as most teams" have so far this season.

"That's the level of performance that we have to have week in, week out," he said.

"If we play like that against other teams we'll get results."

His striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake has echoed McCarthy's sentiment that Wolves can recover, even if the Premier League tips hint they will have to wait a while for a win.

The 24-year-old claims it is "early days" in the league and every player at Molineux is "optimistic" that Wolves can pull out of the Premier League bottom three in the near future.

Didn't like this cup anyway

What a second half.

Man Utd came out with all guns blazing, Wolves came roaring back, Jarvis was unstoppable and in the end it was decided by a Little Pea.

Once again, Wolves put in an impressive performance that shows we are here to play and compete with the big sides. There were moments of misfortune, which shifted the game in United's favour but we didn't let our heads go down. Expect a good performance again on Saturday.

Surely someone has told Capello about Jarvis' performance last night? Against two ex England internationals with years of experience he ran riot. He set up four or five good chances that we should have converted. On Saturday, when we get these chances we need to be a bit more clinical. Even if we did score two goals.

Another Italian who should be watching our games is Giovanni Trapattoni. Our second best player, by quite some distance too, was Kevin Foley. He showed all the class required to play teams at the top end of the table, and if he keeps playing like this will be spotted by someone. He get's himself into some great positions, and despite not possessing any pace or power always causes trouble in the other teams area.

Hunt wasn't quite there today. He made some sloppy passes, and at times lost concentration. The impact he is going to have is there too see. He's an infectious player and once properly fit will boost us. Fletcher too was sloppy on the ball. He got himself into some great positions yet, unlike him, he couldn't keep his cool. Up front with him, I was impressed by Ebanks-Blake. Sharp, hardworking and creative and words most Wolves fans would use to describe him but he will be in Mick's good books after that performance.

Hennessey - 7

Foley - 9
Mouyokolo - 7
Berra - 7
Elokobi - 7

Jarvis - 9
Mancienne - 7
Jones - 7
Hunt - 6

Fletcher - 6
Ebanks-Blake - 7

On to City. I see no reason why we can't give them a game. Especially if Jarvis plays like that.

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It's that time of the week!

Once again, well done to wolves1992 who scored the most points this week with a huge 82. That extends his lead to 102 points at the top. There's still plenty of time, anything can happen.

There's still plenty of time to catch up

Here are you fixtures:

Arsenal v West Ham
Blackburn v Chelsea
Everton v Stoke
Fulham v Wigan
Wolves v Man City
Man Utd v Tottenham
Aston Villa v Birmingham
Newcastle v Sunderland
Bolton v Liverpool
Blackpool v West Brom

Good luck!

League Cup Preview

So we travel to Old Trafford for the first time since that game (which will no doubt be mentioned, or more). Many will see this as a break from the pressures of the league, and give our first team players a break but this is a good chance to have a decent cup run for the first time in years.

Players in and around the first team like Mujangi Bia, Elokobi, Fletcher, Hennessey and Ebanks-Blake could have a good chance to stake a claim for a place in the side come saturday against City while Hunt and Mouyokolo will get more minutes under their belt.

Even a second (or third) string Manchester United side is a decent one, so whoever they put out will give us a good game. Michael Owen returns, while youngsters like Macheda and Obertan will be raring to go. They'll have a couple of senior players in the team, such as Carrick or Scholes who have the ability to create something out of nothing. We'll have to watch out for ex Wolves loanee Darron Gibson who has developed a taste for goals in the past year.

I'd love to see a couple of youngsters given a go. Batth sounds like a promising defender and I can see him getting a chance. David Davis, recalled from, his loan spell at Walsall may get a chance simply because we have no one else.

It's hard to know, but I think:

Hennessey

Chance to shine

Foley
Mouyokolo
Batth
Elokobi

Mujangi Bia
Mancienne
Milijas
Hunt

Ebanks-Blake
Fletcher

Hopefully we'll have a good old go at United and I can see us winning. 2-1 Wolves.

A cause for optimisim: Chelsea 2 Wolves 0

Typical.

Wolves put in their best performance of the season away to the best home team in the country. Rolling it out from the goalkeeper, fluid football and plenty of possession against the highest goalscorers. That's probably the best performance from a visiting team Chelsea have seen in a while!

Almost everything seemed right. David Jones and Nenad Milijas looked like they'd been playing alongside each other for years. Why have they never played together before? Berra was outstanding at the back, as was Foley. Stearman hardly made a mistake all game, and a part from a couple of sloppy passes Ward was fine.

We always looked comfortable on the ball, playing it around and getting it into our wingers feet. Jarvis, not even playing in his favoured position was superb against probably the best left back in the world in Ashley Cole. When Stephen Hunt came on, he freed up a bit of space for him as they couldn't double up on him. We had some natural width and it looked good.

The only player who didn't play that well was Dave Edwards. He looks shot of confidence, you can see it in his passing. Too often he puts someone in trouble, a bit like Ward does. When Henry comes back, you'd expect him to drop to the bench.

Why can't Jelle Van Damme finish a game? He was solid, as usual and always troubled them in the air. But if he can't play more than an hour what use is he? It's very similar to last year with Milijas, and he's playing full games now so perhaps he's just blooding him into the Premier League.

Milijas has finished each of his last three games

Hahnemann - 7

Foley - 8
Stearman -7
Berra -8
Ward - 6

Jarvis - 9
Jones - 8
Edwards - 6
Milijas - 7
van Damme - 7

Doyle - 7

Subs: Hunt - 7, Fletcher and Ebanks-Blake N/A.

If we can keep this standard of football up will we start getting some good results. We've got the league cup next to give players like Mouyokolo and Hunt a chance to get fit.