Wolves' Romain Saiss: Hard work starts at the top
Romain Saiss accepts Wolves are now there to be shot at after going top of the Championship.
Title favourites for much of the season, Wolves finally scaled the summit on Saturday night by downing West Midlands rivals Villa 2-0 at Molineux.
But Saiss is well aware fellow promotion chasers Preston North End will come to WV1 this weekend looking to knock Wolves off their perch.
“We have to win to stay at the top – it’s more difficult to stay there,” said the Moroccan midfielder. “We have to win and continue work on the training pitch, but I’m so confident for the rest of the season.”
Despite being described by many of the 30,239 in attendance as one of the best performances in years, Saiss is determined to keep improving – and to get as close to perfection as humanly possible.
“We have to keep this way because game after game we have to do much better,” he said. “Perfection doesn’t exist but we can get closer game by game and hopefully at the end of the season we will have a good fiesta to celebrate promotion.”
He added: “Now we have to continue like this. It was a good game for us so we (only) need to adapt some things.
“We were not very good in the last 15 minutes of the first half and the last 15 minutes of the second half. We have to keep the ball more and control the game more, and not concede any chances. But there were a lot of players tired like me. The emotion was fantastic, so we need to stay together with the staff, the players and the fans if we want to go to the Premier League.”
The 27-year-old struggled to hold down a regular place last season, shining in some games, but struggling in others. However, he has featured in all 12 of Wolves’ Championship matches so far this term, starting 10 of them, keeping deadline-day signing Alfred N’Diaye out of the team. And the ‘power’ from the stands is driving him on.
“It’s so fun because we feel good on the pitch,” he added. “If we are tired then we hear the fans and have more power. At this moment it is good and it’s the same with the national team – the fans give me the power to finish the job.”
Meanwhile, Wolves have been handed 550 restricted view seats for the trip to QPR on October 28 having sold out their initial allocation of 2,575.
