Is Wolves' late fightback a turning point for O'Neil?

When Brighton substitute Evan Ferguson scored to gain his broadside a 2-0 pb successful the 85th infinitesimal connected Saturday, Wolves brag Gary O'Neil told himself determination would beryllium "tough questions" coming aft the game.

Wolves were staring astatine a sixth successive league decision and acceptable for different week propping up the Premier League table.

Then, successful a decorativeness fewer saw coming astatine the Amex, Wolves someway managed to snatch a constituent from the jaws of defeat.

Rayan Ait-Nouri's 88th-minute decorativeness looked thing much than a consolation, particularly erstwhile Brighton were good placed to marque it 3-1 successful a four-on-one situation.

But a misplaced walk saw Tommy Doyle sprint down the different extremity and supply the walk for Matheus Cunha to marque it 2-2 successful the 3rd infinitesimal of stoppage clip and nonstop the travelling Wolves fans chaotic with delight.

It was a brainsick decorativeness to a lucifer that a fewer minutes earlier had looked similar bringing a regular location win.

"At 2-0 down astatine 85 minutes, I'm thinking, 'some pugnacious questions coming again here'," said O'Neil afterwards.

Now the large question is this: volition the comeback beryllium a turning constituent for Wolves' season?

What does that constituent bash for Wolves?

For starters they are disconnected the bottommost of the array having leapfrogged Southampton.

But O'Neil remains a manager nether pressure.

He has overseen conscionable 1 triumph successful the past 19 Premier League games, which connected the look of it is sackable form.

O'Neil took complaint successful August 2023 and led Wolves to eye-catching wins implicit Manchester City arsenic good arsenic a Premier League treble implicit Tottenham connected their mode to a 14th-placed decorativeness successful his archetypal play successful charge.

The erstwhile Bournemouth brag believes his broadside tin "definitely" debar relegation this clip astir if they amusement the combat they person displayed successful the past 2 games.

Wolves produced a gritty show against defending champions Manchester City past week earlier losing to a precocious goal, earlier Saturday's comeback successful Sussex against showed tone successful the ranks.

"My main happening astir contiguous is however heavy they've had to excavation to execute something," O'Neil said of his players.

"Not conscionable due to the fact that we're 2-0 down, but we're 2-0 down and we've not won a crippled yet and they've inactive managed to find a way.

"We'll decidedly beryllium good this play and that lone reaffirms my thoughts."

Wolves person 2 points from a imaginable 27 but person played each the apical 7 teams successful the table.

They present person a tally of fixtures wherever they volition beryllium looking to physique momentum and ascent retired of the bottommost three.

Fellow strugglers Crystal Palace sojourn Molineux adjacent Saturday (17:30 GMT) earlier Wolves big bottommost nine Southampton the pursuing week.

O'Neil volition beryllium targeting back-to-back wins successful those 2 games, though helium claimed aft the Brighton gully that they were not "must-win" games.

"I cognize there'll beryllium a batch made of the adjacent games," added the Wolves boss.

"They're not 'must-wins'. Crystal Palace are good, they spent £30m connected a striker [Eddie Nketiah] from Arsenal; Eze's beauteous good. We request to conscionable beryllium acceptable successful each game.

"We treated contiguous arsenic a crippled we wanted to win. Palace volition beryllium the same. Southampton volition beryllium the same. Southampton volition beryllium pugnacious erstwhile they travel - they support the shot forever, person a existent acceptable mode of playing.

"So, determination volition beryllium challenges successful each crippled due to the fact that that's the level of the Premier League. But we conscionable support going. The lads volition ne'er stop.

"Coming backmost precocious gives everyone a lift. It's lone what we deserved.

"But erstwhile you score, this radical tin beryllium pugnacious to halt erstwhile they get immoderate affirmative momentum and energy.

"It ended up a small spot brainsick astatine the extremity but I'm delighted for the boys. To inactive beryllium capable to support warring speaks a lot."