Ahead of Wolves’ visit to Nottingham Forest on Wednesday evening, Rob Edwards revealed the team is going to be without Hee Chan Hwang for a ‘number of weeks’ after the Korean suffered a calf injury in Saturday’s defeat to Chelsea.
Hwang – who has been on the receiving end of the Old Gold supporters’ ire in recent times – is set to miss a period on the sidelines to recover from his issue, putting him out for the foreseeable future.
And with the two lowest scoring teams in the Premier League set to go head-to-head at the City Ground tomorrow evening, Edwards will now be looking towards new signing Adam Armstrong if his team are to improve their attacking output in Hwang’s absence.
On latest injury news
“Channy [Hwang] is out and it’ll be a few weeks. It’s his calf. We’ll rescan again a couple of weeks and see where he’s at. But he’ll probably be a number of weeks.
“Andre has been outside and jogging today, so we’ll give him as much time as possible and we’ll see where he’s at, and Toti’s still doing his individual work. He’s not been working with the team yet, but he’s getting on really well, so he won’t be available for tomorrow.”
On facing Forest on Wednesday evening
“It’s a good game for us. All the pressure now, for obvious reasons, is on them, and with them being at home, the expectation will be on them. They need to win the game, but we can go there and try, as always, to attack the game. Try and be brave, maybe with a little less pressure on.
“Coming here, most recently for Luton in the Premier League, it was an amazing atmosphere, and their fans can really affect it, especially in recent years, when they’ve done so well. It’s a brilliant place to go and play and I’m really looking forward to that atmosphere.
“I can lean on my experiences, the lads will have been there as well in recent years, so we’ve all been there and there won’t be anything really that’s new, but what we’ve got to try and do is take care of ourselves, and, if we do things right, try and quiet in the crowd.”
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On finding a way to win
“There are a lot of teams that are in the mix for that [17th place] spot, so there’s good competition in those places.
“They’ve got a good team with good players and it wasn’t that long ago that we played them [at Molineux] and it wasn’t a great game, there was nothing really in it, but they found a way to win it.
“We’ve got to try and find a way to do it ourselves this time. But again, it’ll be a really challenging one against a well-organised team.”
On starting in a back four against Chelsea
“It forced our hand to change it, especially when Channy had to come off. Rather than going a little bit like for like, I used the phrase ‘stop the bleeding’ and we tried to go back to maybe what we know a little bit more.
“That side of it was frustrating because we wanted to try and be brave, try to attack the game, have another number further forward to try and press bit more aggressively and to try and cause them more problems. It didn’t work in terms of result, but we’ve changed to a back four in games many times already this season, so I don’t see too much in that really.
“It’s still 11 people on the pitch, and where you position them can change due to who you’re coming up against. I don’t see it as too big a thing, maybe other people make a bigger thing of it, but once we settled back into the more tried and tested system of what we knew, and maybe we’re a little bit more comfortable in, we looked ok.
“But then reviewing the game back, there were things that we didn’t get right in the second half, but maybe people’s perceptions might be different because we won that second half, and there wasn’t as much wrong in first half as people would think, and actually the second half wasn’t as many things right as people would think. So never as bad as you think and never as good as well.”
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On Armstrong adding to Wolves’ attack
“With creating stuff, maybe we’re not showing enough, but that’s the hardest thing to do. When we came in, we knew we had to try and be more solid, but of course, to win games of football, you’ve got to create and take chances. We haven’t been able to do that consistently and it’s an area that we’re always trying to improve on. We need to be better – there’s no doubt about that.
“But he’s made a really impressive start. I thought in the game he was excellent, and then the training sessions, he has been as well. He’s very intelligent, he’s really clean in everything that he does.
“His football is very good, so he can drop and arrive into spaces and gives us some links, as well as being on the last line and being a real goal threat as well. I really like the impact that he’s made in his first week here. Plus, it’s his birthday today so hopefully he’s brought some cakes for the staff!”
On Hwang taking flak from supporters
“He’s a really intelligent footballer and he’s a good player. I understand it at times, because he might make a mistake or two, and then people will jump on that and it becomes a bit of a bigger thing, but he’s not complaining about it or moaning about it, he just gets his head down and works really hard on it.
“I understand with the situation that we’re in, there’s a lot of negativity around and that can sometimes manifest in people almost coming together and focusing it on a few people.
“He’s taken a little bit of a stick, but he’s strong mentally, and he’s a great person around the place. Sometimes it can affect him and others, and other times he is just able to brush it off, but I get it because of the situation that we’re in.”
