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Wolves are looking to preserve their Premier League status and avoid relegation to the Championship
Wolves are currently sat in 17th place in the Premier League table as they look to preserve their status in the top flight. Southampton, Leicester City and Ipswich Town currently occupy the bottom three and are all set to return to the Championship after just a year.
Vitor Pereira was picked as the manager at Molineux earlier this winter after Gary O’Neil was sacked. He has managed the likes of Porto, Fenerbahce and Al Shabab in the past, among others.
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The Midlands outfit are nine points above the drop zone following the weekend. They have nine fixtures left to play this season as they aim to get over the line.
Wolves latest update as Vitor Pereira’s side eye Premier League survival
Wolves won 2-1 away at Southampton on Saturday afternoon. Jorgen Strand Larsen scored twice as they picked up a valuable three points against the Saints.
Pereira’s side managed to hold on for the win despite their opponents pulling a goal back 15 minutes from time through striker Paul Onuachu. Speaking after the victory, the head coach said: “It's a fantastic result for us. I suffered a little bit in the last 10 minutes because we had chances to score the third goal twice, and I believe with the third goal, we would have had more tranquillity to play, to keep the ball, to make the pace of the game with the ball, to control the game with the ball.
“But in this in this league, we cannot have a chance to score and after we concede the goal. We concede the counter transition and they score. After 30 seconds, the result was not three-zero, but two-one, and two-one is just one goal difference, and we needed to get these three points. It's normal that for a team it’s time to suffer, time to compact, time to not concede another goal and to get the three points, and we did well.”
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He added: “We had, in my opinion, two big chances – if the last pass goes in the right player, because we have had a situation, just before they scored, I think we had four against two. In this kind of situations, we must score the third goal.”
Premier League prize money table with Wolves poised for hefty fee
Liverpool – £174.1m
Arsenal – £170.4m
Nottingham Forest – £161.4m
Chelsea – £160.9m
Manchester City – £160.3m
Newcastle United – £155.7m
Brighton and Hove Albion – £149m
Fulham – £147m
Aston Villa – £143.1m
AFC Bournemouth – £140.2m
Brentford – £139.6m
Crystal Palace – £135.8m
Manchester United – £134.9m
Tottenham Hotspur – £133.9m
Everton – £124.5m
West Ham – £124.2m
Wolves – £118.9m
Ipswich – £112.8m
Leicester – £112.1m
Southampton – £107.1m
Wolves will pocket £118.9million if they end the season where they are right now in 17th. They could get a bit more if they were able to leapfrog West Ham. The bottom three still all receive over £100million each, despite relegation.