Villas-Boas seeks winning run

Andre Villas-Boas hopes Chelsea’s 3-0 win over Wolves can spark a solid run of form for his under-fire team in a busy December period.

John Terry, Daniel Sturridge and Juan Mata scored the goals in a dominant first-half at Stamford Bridge on Saturday as Chelsea cruised to victory.

And the manager said his men were proud to achieve a good result after a recent run of poor results.

“We’re not going to fill ourselves with arrogance and think this is going to be a good period from now,” Villas-Boas said.

“We have to wait and see, but what makes us proud in this difficult situation is that if we reflect on the games we played, we didn’t deserve the results we ended up with and today we continued by being exactly the same team but finally ended up getting the result.”

“So it was important for us to get the three points – we managed to shorten the distance between ourselves and (Manchester) United and Newcastle, but for it to be a continuous threat in terms of the top of the table, we will need to continue to win.”

“We have the game against Newcastle soon (December 3), and the game against the leaders (Manchester City on December 11) to show that we are a quality side. Let’s wait and see.”

“Today was important to get back to winning ways but we have to get the consistency.”

“I think December will be very important. We have the Champions League fixture (against Valencia) to play but all of the rest are Premier League games. I think December can have a part to play in terms of the pattern of what will happen in the Premier League.”

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy was disappointed his side conceded early on from a set piece, when Terry headed home Mata’s corner after seven minutes, and felt they failed to recover from the early setback.

“I don’t think there was any great air of confidence about the place here and it was a bit foreboding actually, but hey-ho, we soon released that valve didn’t we?” McCarthy said.

“Then (the) corner comes in, it gets headed in, it shouldn’t. That’s something different completely.”

“The game didn’t start (for Wolves). People ask about the four changes I had to make through injuries and suspension. I’ll never know what effect that had on the performance because we never got started.”

“We came here hoping to take advantage of anything that might have been going on, for five minutes or so there didn’t seem the sense that they were going to do to us what they did.”

“But we gave the goal away and that gave them heart and rips the heart and soul out of a team that’s finding it tough at the minute.”