AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe felt his side didn’t do enough with the ball in their defeat to Wolves.
Despite enjoying plenty of possession at Molineux, the Cherries were unable to carve clear cut chances through the Wolves defence.
The manager is also left concerned as Tyrone Mings limped out of the game, another defensive injury to contend with in the festive period.
Here is what he had to say to the written press immediately after the game…
ON THE PERFORMANCE
I think that’s a fair assessment – we had a lot of the ball but just didn’t find that cutting edge.
The only really clear-cut chance we had was Joshua King’s early one, so we have to credit Wolves defensively.
We’re kicking ourselves with the goals we conceded defensively though.
You don’t like losing and the players have done well historically at bouncing back when they’ve been out of form, but we have to rise to the challenge again.
ON MINGS’ INJURY
We’re in a difficult spell with injuries, we lost Simon Francis this week and Tyrone Mings during the game.
There’s no other way but to drag ourselves out of it and we need a win soon.
He was in a lot of pain, I haven’t spoken to him before this press conference but it’s a knock in his back but it left him in a lot of pain. Hopefully he’ll be OK.
The last thing he wanted to do was come off, there was no way he could continue. It’s a difficult spel for us, we’ve lost key players and we’re stretched defensively but it’s a challenge for us to rise to.
ON THE ATTACKING DISPLAY
If you look at today's game, we made a bad mistake for the first goal but we controlled the match. We back our attacking quality to do better than we did, I didn't see a team lacking in identity as we have our way of playing, but I always back us to come good eventually.
