Wolves need to sharpen up, says Karl Henry

Captain Karl Henry today admitted Wolves must improve if they are to mount a promotion challenge this season.

Wolves went down 1-0 to Leeds in their Championship opener on Saturday and failed to force a save from keeper Paddy Kenny.

Midfielder Henry believes everyone must up their game, starting with the visit of Barnsley tomorrow night.

"We all need to improve our individual performances – I certainly can. A few of us can up our games," said the skipper.

"We need to be sharper and make it a higher tempo game. The performance wasn't good enough and we need to draw a line under it and move on.

"We didn't score and we didn't test their keeper, but on numerous occasions we got to the byline and got to within 10 yards of their goal, so we've got to look at why we lost.

"We got ourselves in some great positions and if we'd scored some of those, it would have been a different story."

Wolves have now won just one game in 27 but Henry denied any suggestion that the players are suffering a hangover from last season.

"No," he said when asked if that was the case. "I think there might be tendency to over-analyse things.

"It was disappointing. They started more brightly and got on top but I thought we were much the better team when they scored, which I reckoned was against the run of play.

"We need to look at how we defended their goal again – defensively it looked a poor one to concede. We need to go back to the drawing board and hopefully put it right tomorrow night.

"Maybe they had more tempo than us. We'd seen videos of their last few games and they played a high tempo, direct game. They don't mess around."