Jamie O’Hara has warning for Wolves
Monday 21st February 2011, 2:00PM GMT.
Jamie O’Hara has warned Wolves ‘carry on leaking late goals and we’re going down’ after setting the side a 13-point survival target.
Albion’s equaliser in the second minute of injury-time in yesterday’s 1-1 draw at the Hawthorns made it four goals Wolves have conceded in added time this season.
Last-gasp strikes away to the Baggies, Fulham, Manchester United and Bolton have seen five points slip through their fingers, after man of the match O’Hara’s 25-yard opener was cancelled out by Carlos Vela.
Mick McCarthy’s side have also conceded late winners to Villa and Tottenham – who they threw away the lead against – while they have also lost the advantage to Newcastle, West Ham and Manchester City.
O’Hara suffered relegation with Portsmouth last season and the on-loan Tottenham man believes Wolves will suffer the same fate if the trend continues.
He said: “The team is better, we play better football and we create a lot more chances than Portsmouth. But we’ve got to cut out the goals right at the death.
“I’ve played four games now and in two, we’ve conceded in the last minute, Bolton being the other one.
“We can’t give away goals like that – that’s what happened at Portsmouth.
“We played well all season but we gave goals away at the death and it’s going to cost us as well, so we’ve got to cut those out.”
Albion dominated for long periods and O’Hara believes Wolves, who dropped winger Adam Hammill for Kevin Foley, were too negative after taking the lead.
The midfielder said: “In the second-half, we could have got on top of them more. We were going backwards a bit too much and that just brought them onto us.
“They just kept pumping it into the box in the last five minutes and that was always going to be difficult to defend against.
“I thought we could have dealt with it better.”
O’Hara has also set Wolves a safety target.
He said: “We’ve got a lot of games against teams around us – Blackpool, West Brom again among them – where we’ve got to look for three points.
“But if we win this weekend we’ll have 28 points from 28 games, and if we continue that record, we’ll have 38 points and we’ll stay up.”
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