"I'm a fighter" - Vitor Pereira delivers passionate message amid Wolves' relegation battle

They are battling relegation again this season but Pereira is attempting to bring the players and supporters together as they search for their first win.

In a long and passionate answer in his pre-match press conference, the head coach insisted him and his players must pay no attention to the 'critics' and find confidence within themselves to get three points on the board.

"I’m a fighter," Pereira said.

"The pressure is the pressure I put on myself. I don’t feel the pressure, believe me. 

"If you don’t accept the critics or the pressure, you must go to another job."

Pereira added: "I really believe that the confidence is something that we create inside of us. 

"I know the evaluation, I reflect on my work, I know what I am, I am a hard worker, a fighter. 

"I know myself what I can do. This is really the only thing I need to answer, who I am. 

"I’m a guy that starts to think about football in the morning and finish in the evening. I don’t like to make excuses. I prefer to focus myself on the solutions. 

"After a defeat my energy is low but I come back again to fight. This is what I am. 

"What other people think about me – they don’t know me, they just know me as a manager from the stadium. I cannot have confidence or not if today they say good things about me and tomorrow bad things. 

"This is what I say to my players, the real confidence is the confidence that you feel inside of you. This is the analysis you must do. 

"I keep this mentality in my team. The players are with me, fighting. 

"If we win two or three games, the supporters for sure will be with us. If we run and we fight, they will be for sure with us. 

"The results? I cannot control the results. I cannot control the judgment from the supporters, from the other people, from the press. The same people that today say bad things about me, tomorrow, if we win, they will say good things. This is life, life in football."

Wolves' hierarchy maintain that Pereira's position is not under threat as it stands, but the head coach will also need to get results sooner rather than later if he wants to keep Wolves up.

When asked if he was surprised by that internal support, Pereira said it is due to the work him and his staff put in every day to try and move the club in the right direction.

He said: “You know why? Because they work every day with me and my staff. 

"They know the way that we are working, fighting, trying to find solutions, to keep the spirit, to defend the club. And because we proved that last season in a few months that we can get results and play good football. 

"This season has been more difficult. Today is what we must live by. Tomorrow, be focused to compete at our level and try to get the result. The future? I don’t know if I will be there or not.”