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Manager Rob Edwards vowed to keep fighting and told his players they could not give up after a humiliating 2–0 home defeat at rock-bottom Wolves. brentford,
Keane Lewis-Potter’s second-half brace sealed victory for the Bees at Molineux, where jorgen strand larsen late penalty saved Kevin Kelleher And home loyalists made their anger clear.
Wolves’ 10th consecutive defeat in the top-flight means they have a paltry two points, level on average, after 17 matches. Premier League Record minimum set by Sheffield United in the 2020/21 season.
Newport’s fourth-tier team of 1970/71 is the only other side in English League history to record so few points at this level, but Edwards resolved to move on.
“We’ve got to (keep fighting),” he said. “I just told their boys out there, ‘You can’t give up.’ It must be mental.
“I said ‘I’m standing in front of you now, I’m going to fight, and I know all the staff is with me and going to fight, and I need all the boys to come together and help each other and fight too.’ This is what we have to do.
“Yes, it is an extremely difficult situation that we have come into and obviously that continues at the moment in terms of consequences.
“I don’t feel that way when we’re around the training ground. I feel the boys are with us and they’re working really hard.
“We have seen an improvement over the last few weeks in training and the work they are doing.
“We have to keep the faith and then do the right things and you hope things turn around.
“We’ve seen games where it was really close and could have gone either way and we’re coming out on the wrong end of them at the moment.
“We have to stop making fundamental mistakes. We have to keep trying to do the right things to avoid making them.”
Asked if he had any regrets about leaving Middlesbrough to take up the Molineux job last month, Edwards laughed and then said: “No, not at all.
“I knew it was going to be tough. I’m up for the challenge and I told the same to the boys out there.”
While it seems to be a matter of when rather than if wolves Are relegated, visitors Brentford moved 10 points clear of the relegation zone with Saturday’s win.
Bees boss Keith Andrews, who began his playing career at Molineux, said: “I really thought it was always going to be a difficult game.
“There is no divine right to win games. This is Rob’s sixth game in charge and in the last five games they have been drawn at half-time, and they have played teams like Arsenal, Aston Villa.
“So, it’s not a divine right that you come in and expect you’re going to score a goal in the first 20, 30 minutes and just stroll around Molineux. You have to earn that right.”