Wolves stars hold hands up

Stale Solbakken is hoping his players' actions will be as good as their words as Wolves look to get back to winning ways in the Championship tonight.

moreThey tackle an in-form Hull City at the KC Stadium with the fall-out from Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Burnley still stinging their pride. Solbakken is planning changes tonight but was cheered by the response he received from his players at Sunday's post-mortem of a Turf Moor performance.

The Wolves boss considers that display the team's worst of the season.

Solbakken said: "I was disappointed but the players feel exactly the same.

"We had a meeting on Sunday and it was a very short meeting, because the players held their hands up and understood it.

"It would have been worse if they hadn't understood it, but all of them saw it wasn't good enough.

"I liked what I heard from the players because it would be difficult for us to go further if they thought we'd done well or they were looking just at the statistics."

Those 'stats' showed Wolves were superior in all departments of the game except the one that mattered but Solbakken won't take comfort from the numbers.

Instead, the manager is urging his players to "trust themselves" to take the game to the opposition – which he acknowledges will be no easy task this evening.

He said: "In the home games we have been more or less the team who have wanted to take the initiative and take charge of the game.

"It's more difficult away from home but it can't be true we have to change everything.

"We have to adapt but there is a big difference between adapting or changing everything.

"We have to find the right solution for that."

Hull will present an unusual threat as they are one of the few modern-day teams employing wing-backs and, while Solbakken is looking for greater attacking threat, there is an equal focus on his defence.

He said: "What was not so like us at Burnley was the lack of concentration."