´We came here to win´ – Pereira hails Wolves´ bravery after Ipswich turnaround

Vitor Pereira praised his Wolves players for refusing to settee for a gully aft they pushed Ipswich Town to the brink of relegation with Saturday’s fightback astatine Portman Road.

Ipswich looked acceptable to propulsion wrong six points of Wolves erstwhile Liam Delap enactment them up against the tally of play successful the archetypal half.

But Wolves continued to pen their hosts backmost successful the 2nd half, and goals from Pablo Sarabia and Jorgen Strand Larsen sealed a memorable comeback win.

Wolves are present 12 points wide of Ipswich with a acold superior extremity difference, with the Tractor Boys appearing destined for an instant instrumentality to the Championship.

Pereira has overseen a singular upturn for Wolves since taking implicit successful December. Since his archetypal lucifer successful charge, a 3-0 triumph astatine Leicester City connected December 22, they person taken 23 points from 15 matches.

That puts them eighth successful the league during that span, having been 19th and successful information of being chopped adrift erstwhile erstwhile brag Gary O’Neil was sacked.

“I don’t cognize if it is guaranteed safety, but we volition effort to triumph the adjacent game. We person a bully team, personality, character, and we are connected with the supporters,” Pereira told BBC Sport.

“Our unit is the unit we enactment connected ourselves. At the extremity of the game, we request to consciousness we did our work.

“I’m precise blessed for the club, the supporters and the squad due to the fact that we deserved it. They scored first, but we had immoderate chances.

“We came present to win. It’s not clip to wait, it’s clip to play, property them and triumph the game.

“I don’t attraction if we lose, I conscionable privation my squad pressing and putting much gait connected the shot and changing 1 oregon 2 things.”

Wolves person won 3 consecutive matches successful the Premier League for the archetypal clip since December 2023, contempt prima guardant Matheus Cunha being suspended.

And Pereira feels Cunha’s replacement successful his starting XI, January accomplishment Marshall Munetsi, is liable for bringing much retired of Strand Larsen.

“If you look astatine the game, Strand Larsen is getting amended due to the fact that he’s much adapted to the Premier League,” Pereira said.

“Now Munetsi is playing adjacent to him, creating spaces, attacking spaces each time, supporting the archetypal ball.

“What we felt earlier was that erstwhile Larsen received the archetypal ball, the antheral adjacent to him to connection enactment was not there.”

Strand Larsen has been playing with a fractured manus but has 4 goals successful his past 3 Premier League games – arsenic galore arsenic helium scored successful his erstwhile 18.

Asked if helium was disquieted astir exacerbating his wounded successful Wolves’ chaotic celebrations, the Norwegian said: “I couldn’t attraction little astir that. The doc volition say: ‘You person to beryllium careful!’ We went nuts celebrating with the fans; it was amazing.”