Kenny Jackett: Wolves are still motivated

Boss Kenny Jackett insists motivation isn't an issue with Wolves - despite the team's recent poor form.

Just one win in eight – and three in 18 – means Jackett's team are ending the season with a whimper.

But after yet another nil-nil draw at home, the fourth in a row, Jackett refused to criticise his players.

He said: "I thought the motivation of the players was good. I know their characters and I know their age – they want to do well, they are desperate to do well.

"It is not a case of motivation, it is actually being able to do it."

Teenagers Sylvain Deslandes and Bright Enobakhare both started a league game at Molineux for the first time, with the latter making his full Championship debut.

Left-back Deslandes moved from Caen last summer, while Enobakhare moved into the club's academy from Nigeria when he was 15, three years ago,

Jackett has sung their praises in recent months and, after giving the pair an opportunity to impress, he felt they didn't look our of their depth at Championship level.

The Wolves boss, who was also delighted with the performance of Dominic Iorfa at centre-half, said of the two youngsters: "We played a left back who is 18 and one of the three forwards is 17.

"We want to be competitive and we want to win and we also want to give players opportunities.

"I felt we wanted to attack more from full back than we did against Leeds, so I decided to bring Iorfa inside and then look to Matt Doherty and Deslandes to improve our service.

"Sylvain, at 18, has a good future and also with Bright, at 17, it will be interesting to see how he develops now. He has played nine times this season and for a youth player that is a good total.

"Hopefully, those lads can now build for the future from these games and for us, we can find the right mix and the winning equation which is what everyone is looking for, and at home in particular.

"They need to go and work away in the summer and come back stronger because the Championship is a very powerful division.

"That will happen naturally with those players because of their ages and similarly with Iorfa, at 20, who was very good at right centre-half.

"They all have to come back better and come back stronger."