Saturday 8 August 2015 20:27, UK
Sheffield Wednesday manager Carlos Carvalhal outlined his vision for taking the club forward after overseeing a 2-0 victory in his Sky Bet Championship opener against promoted Bristol City.
Tom Lees opened the scoring on the hour mark with a well-placed header from a corner and that was followed up 10 minutes later with a strike from Lewis McGugan, who slotted into an empty net after a floated cross left the visiting defence stranded.
Carvalhal said: "I am happy because people around me are happy. We had a very good and professional exhibition today. Bristol is a good team. They will be very good during the season, they play good football. We analysed them. Football is a clever game and if you understand what you have to do, it helps, and we did that today.
"What I am trying to do is create a new era for the club, to break the last 15 years which was not good for the club. It was not just the last season - the last 15 seasons were not good for the club.
"We want to create a fantastic atmosphere so people want to come to the stadium, enjoy the time, bring their families. Of course if you win they will be happy and can go home and drink some beers to celebrate instead of beers to forget the match."
Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill bemoaned the way in which his side conceded, but admitted his players were masters of their own downfall despite playing well.
Cotterill said: "They played counter-attacking football at home. That's what I felt happened today. The goal from the corner was our fault because if you don't get touch-tight and you don't get the first contact in the box then you're living on a knife-edge.
"I felt like our football was just as good as theirs, if not better. But the most important thing is they won the game 2-0. I don't want to harp on about the counter-attacking. I met Carlos before the game - he seems like a nice guy and he asked me to come and have a glass of wine with him and he offered that before the match.
"Sheffield Wednesday are a good club and good luck to them going forward. But, when you look at it today, from our point of view, the first goal was against the run of play and you can dominate the game but if you don't win the game it doesn't mean anything."
