Wolves' Kevin Doyle determined to add to goal tally
Kevin Doyle today backed himself to stay on the goal trail for Wolves after his brace against Bolton last night.
The £6.5m striker ended his eight-match club drought with his first double since March 2011, and it looked like handing Wolves a return to winning ways until former Molineux midfielder Mark Davies' 90th-minute equaliser in the 2-2 draw. Benik Afobe had opened the scoring.
And Doyle, whose brace put him up to three goals for Wolves this season, believes he can now continue adding to his tally.
"I don't feel I've missed too many chances so I'm not concerned as I've enjoyed playing well," said the Ireland international.
"To top it with a couple of goals is nice and hopefully I'll get a few more in the next few weeks – that's what usually happens with strikers. It would be nice if I could do the same again at the weekend."
Doyle admitted his barren run was starting to irritate him after hitting the woodwork in recent weeks, while his header hit a defender in the face on the goalline in Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Huddersfield.
"It was a huge relief – it was starting to really hack me off," he said.
"But the good thing was I was at least getting chances. I'd hit the post a couple of times and the bar and last Saturday, one was cleared off the line where the fellow didn't even know about it. Thankfully last night they went in."
Doyle insisted it was only to be expected that Wolves came under pressure last night when they led.
Fans have criticised boss Stale Solbakken's tactics after he took Doyle off and replaced him with Richard Stearman and Wolves ended up having to settle for a point.
"It was the fact we were 2-1 up and it's what happens in football," said Doyle. "We could have broken away and got the third goal – and if Bjorn Sigurdarson would have got that, it would have been a different story.
"Either that or they gambled and threw extra players forward and put us under more pressure and that's what happened – we got nervous, the crowd got nervous and unfortunately it resulted in an equaliser.
"Bolton played very well in the second half, so it was a fair result."
"Maybe with the change of manager, we caught them at the wrong time, but we still drew so it's not the end of the world."