Joe Gallen working on Wolves' distribution

Gallen admits playing out from defence hasn't been Wolves' forte at times this season.

A switch to 4-4-2, he said, only made the problem worse. But with left-footers Kortney Hause and Jeremy Helan coming into the side, Gallen feels Wolves have a better balance to them and have improved their distribution as a result.

Does Gallen feel distribution has been good enough this season? "No it hasn't, definitely not," he told the Express & Star.

"And sometimes, believe it or not, we've found that sometimes we play 4-4-2 and our distribution, we've thought was going to improve, but it's actually got worse.

"And so we've been trying to be positive by putting two up there, but somehow it negated all our options.

"The 4-3-3, we seem to have a lot more options. And it works best when there's a balance behind it.

"We should be able to switch play quickly. It was a feature of our performances at the start of the Championship (2014/15) where Lee Evans was switching play in a direct fashion.

"It's certainly not a long ball, but a longer pass.

"If we can get back to that, and nail that, it gives us a lot more options."

The Burnley performance has given hope for the rest of the season, with Wolves having taken the game to the league leaders and been the better side for long spells.

Gallen revealed a tactical switch in training that week helped get Wolves on the front foot at Turf Moor.

He said: "We'd all agree if we had lost it was still a good, positive performance and high in spirit. There have been a couple of times this season where that hasn't been right.

"The major thing we decided and did in training before the game was to keep our wide players Jeremy and Jed (Wallace) high and wide up the pitch.

"And as soon as we got possession, get it straight on the touchlines.

"What that does bring is, when we had possession or turned over possession, we had then a longer pass straight away and we, for the first time in a long time, had a number of longer diagonal passes.

"People think the passes always have to be to the centre forward, and down the sides.

"That's certainly the case at times but the centre forward has two centre halves to contend with, whereas the wide player just has his full back, and so we're trying to get into the team where the longer pass is to the wide player, as opposed to the centre forward.

"That was the plan, either in behind to their feet and then get in at their full backs. Then we were able to gallop up the pitch.

"And we had a balanced team behind it – Danny Batth who can go right to left, Kortney Hause who can go left to right, Pricey (Jack Price) who were telling to 'come on, find that longer pass'.

"And then there's a balanced midfield of Conor Coady's right foot and George Saville's left foot.

"So the team is balanced. The only one who's not is Doc (Matt Doherty), but he's playing very well."