Liam Keen
Published12th Apr 2026, 13:27 BST
Rob Edwards has called on his Wolves players to ‘turn up and fight’ as the club edges closes to Premier League relegation.
A 4-0 defeat to West Ham has ended any hope of a miraculous great escape and Wolves are likely to officially drop to the Championship in the coming weeks.
With six games remaining this season, Edwards has urged his players to perform for the club, fans and their own careers.
The head coach said: “We have to react. We're playing in the Premier League and all eyes are on us and we're going to be getting this scrutiny. It's in everyone's best interest to perform.
“I don't think it'll be difficult to get up for the game and make sure there's a response. We have to.
“If you look at just the result in isolation, you think, ‘wow, that is a bad night for us’, but there were a lot of good things in the performance, especially in the first half.
“We've got to try and take some of them and make sure we quickly brush up on the other things.
“We have to turn up.
“There was a lot of anger, a lot of disappointment there, as you can imagine. But they know what the right thing to do is and we've got to make sure now that we really turn up in the next six games.
“Regardless of what happens, we have to fight to the end of the 38th game.
“We're doing it for ourselves, our families, everyone. It's really important for the football club.
”Regardless of what happens, we have to make sure we respond and give everything. I'm pretty confident the group in there will do that.”
It was a performance full of individual mistakes at the London Stadium, as clinical West Ham took advantage of Wolves’ poor decision making.
Two of the goals came from corners and Edwards was left disappointed at Wolves’ defending.
He said: “It's tough. The second phase of the set-piece, can we get out and stop the cross?
“We want to mark Mavropanos and we have people that are designated to mark these people. In the second phase, people move around, and it's frustrating.
”A couple of mistakes, two of our best players lost the ball, it can happen. There's a lot that's still got to happen after we've lost it.
“That is a big threat of West Ham’s. We've spoken about a lot of those fast transitions, they've got good players in those areas of the pitch, and when they regain it quick. It's been a big part of the work this week, so it's tough.”
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