Wolves' Nuno Espirito Santo says Huddersfield have 'new ideas' under Jan Siewert
Monday 25 February 2019 14:26, UK
Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo has sympathised with Jan Siewert but says he has introduced "new ideas" at bottom club Huddersfield.
Siewert succeeded David Wagner in January and has lost his first four Premier League games in charge, leaving the Terriers 14 points behind 17th-placed Cardiff and facing likely relegation to the Sky Bet Championship.
By contrast, Nuno's Wolves are unbeaten in their last five top-flight matches and will move up to seventh with victory at the John Smith's Stadium on Tuesday, but he insisted it will be a hard task for his side.
"No, (seventh place) doesn't mean anything," he said. "What we know is that it will be a very tough game. Huddersfield are a good team in a bad moment.
"We respect them and they have quality which will make our task very hard.
"Of course it is a tough job (for Jan Siewert) to try to re-motivate the team, to try to know that there are still games to be played. Cleary there are new ideas. It's a very competitive team.
"They are aggressive. They try to press, try to play. We don't underestimate them at all. That would be the worst mistake, we cannot allow it to happen."
Aaron Mooy's double helped Huddersfield to a 2-0 win over Wolves at Molineux in November - one of only two Premier League games they have won this season - but Nuno claimed that recent results are more important to him.
"The team has changed, the manager has changed," he added. "They are bringing a different way. I remember in the previous game they were really aggressive and we were not able to play.
"The most relevant is the previous game (against Bournemouth), the previous performance. Then we can see the new ideas, the new movements. How we want to play tomorrow really is the focus."
