Wolves job not done despite ´huge result´

Mick McCarthy described Wolves’ 3-1 win at home to West Brom as ‘a huge result’, but knows his team are still two matches away from safety.

A Steven Fletcher brace and Adlene Guedioura’s volley secured what could prove to be three vital points at Molineux, as Wolves climbed out of the English Premier League relegation zone.

They are now one point clear of Blackpool and Wigan and three ahead of bottom side West Ham, with matches away to Sunderland and at home against Blackburn still to come.

“It is a huge result,” McCarthy told Sky Sports.

“But as I have said it is May 22 when it counts, so it a great result and we are out of the bottom three and we want to stay out of the bottom three but we have two huge games to play.”

Set-pieces proved to the difference in the match, with both of Wolves’ two first-half goals coming from corner kicks.

Guedioura’s strike in particular will have left West Brom boss Roy Hodgson scratching his head, with the Algeria midfielder left completely unmarked barely a metre out from the goal-line.

“I would like to think we are good at corners, but Roy will think they did not defend, but re-starts are a big part of the game,” McCarthy said.

“There were times when we had to keep the ball and we did get at them, but they are safe and they could do damage to us, so we had to get into their faces and see who wanted to win more, but they did put us under pressure in the second half.”

Hodgson was proud of his beaten players for keeping up the fight, despite going 3-0 down with nothing left to play for this season.

“We had a lot of opportunities in their box and did our level best to get back from 3-1 down, which I don’t think many teams would have done at this stage of the season when they’re safe and they’ve got the beach to look forward, and there’s no question of that,” Hodgson said.