Conor Coady not setting Wolves target

Three successive Premier League wins have moved Wolves four points clear in seventh position.

And victory over Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup on Tuesday has put Nuno Espirito Santo’s team in the fifth round, where they’ll face Championship side Bristol City.

Seventh position has been good enough to qualify for the Europa League for the past four seasons, with Burnley, West Ham, Everton and Southampton the beneficiaries of both of the domestic cup competitions being won by teams who finished in the top six.

But Coady said: “We’d welcome it of course but we’ve not set any targets in the changing room.

“Improving game by game is our mentality and that’s what we’ll keep on doing.”

Wolves appear to have made great strides throughout the campaign with a number of players improving as the season has gone on.

Coady agrees. He said: “We had to improve. We all knew how tough the Premier League was going to be at the start of the season.

“I feel like we have improved, steadily, across the season.

“There have been some tough games, some ups and downs, but at the minute we’re doing OK.

“As long as we keep on listening to the manager that will continue to be the case.

“At the start of the season we didn’t look that far ahead, we took it game by game.

“The boys have done fantastically well.”

Wolves are away in Marbella for the week doing some mid-season warm weather training.

On Monday they host Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle United, with league games against Bournemouth, Huddersfield Town and Cardiff City to follow in the coming weeks.

Coady added: “It’s all about improvement. We say the same every week.

“And now it’s about looking at Newcastle on Monday night.

“We’ll train hard and train right, spend a bit of time together in Marbella but come back on Sunday focused on Newcastle, ready to improve in that game.”

Behind every improvement has been boss Nuno, who has overseen the club’s transformation from the Championship to the top half of the Premier League in a little over 18 months.

Coady said he and the players had total trust in their head coach.

“He’s been a driving force in the past couple of years,” captain Coady said.

“He had an identity when he came to the club, how we wanted to play and the boys bought into that.

“We’ve got total trust in everything he does on the training pitch and how he sets us up on a weekend.

“We listen to him day by day. He’s been incredible for the club.”