Wolves news: Nedum Onuoha on Vitor Pereira impact

Vitor Pereira seems like he’s got a really strong mind in terms of how he wants to seem to play.

He’s very passionate on the sideline about big things, little things – everything, basically.

One thing that he’s done, just looking from just from a stats perspective, is bring down the goals conceded a ton.

At the start of the season Wolves were scoring goals, but they were conceding so many, especially from set pieces.

Since he’s been in charge, his team have now gained more points than the bottom three combined and in doing so have conceded 19 goals in 15 games which is very good and such a stark contrast to what it was previously.

The amount of goals scored has gone down, but he’s made Wolves a tougher team to play against and that makes a big, big difference. They will have that goal threat but now when you play against them opponents are not thinking they will just be given something.

When you’re down there you shouldn’t be expected to score a ton of goals, but you have to be competitive and they’ve basically done that

The narrative was that if you stop Matheus Cunha you stop Wolves but now the threat is coming from different positions. There are other points in the team with a greater emphasis.

In terms of how he set the team up, Pereira has helped the understanding between the players on the pitch as well and harnesses the mentality to go out there and get points, which is impressive given how bad the team had been to the point of his arrival.

Now they’re showing to be more of the team that he believes that they can be and are showing mid-table Premier League form.

It’s been really good to see the players play in that manner, and for him to be able to hit the ground midway during the season, because for lots of managers that tends to be a bridge too far sometimes.

Nedum Onuoha was speaking to BBC Sport’s Nat Hayward