Wolves' victory at Everton 'only one step' towards survival - Julen Lopetegui

Wolves' triumph implicit chap strugglers Everton is "only 1 step" connected the way to Premier League survival, says manager Julen Lopetegui.

"We person to bask our triumph but we person not done thing yet," Lopetegui said.

"We are blessed but lone for today."

Lopetegui arrived astatine Molineux successful aboriginal November and the intermission for the World Cup appears to person provided the erstwhile Spain, Real Madrid and Sevilla brag with invaluable clip to enactment with a squad which saw lone 5 of its players caput to Qatar and is acceptable to beryllium reinforced by the accomplishment of Brazil guardant Matheus Cunha in January.

Their archetypal distant triumph of the run astatine Goodison Park represented the archetypal clip they had scored much than 1 extremity connected the roadworthy since May and was successful implicit opposition to 8 different occasions this play wherever they had mustered conscionable a solitary constituent aft conceding the opening goal.

"We conceded a extremity and showed a bully mentality. They [the players] continued moving and trying to change the situation, [which] volition beryllium precise important for america and for our belief," Lopetegui added.

"It is lone 3 points and we cognize we person up of america a precise hard task and we volition proceed moving to amended a batch of things.

"I americium alert of our position. We request bully quality for our fans and we are precise blessed for our fans and supra each for my players arsenic they person suffered a batch and they person to judge much successful themselves.

"But this is lone 1 step. We are successful a atrocious presumption and we person to beryllium acceptable time greeting to commencement reasoning astir Manchester United [for the adjacent lucifer connected Saturday]. When we triumph we are blessed for 2 oregon 3 hours, nary more."

• Wolves disconnected bottommost with 95th-minute victor astatine Everton

'It was ever going to beryllium a pugnacious year'

The effect heaped much unit connected Everton manager Frank Lampard, whose broadside question to defending champions Manchester City successful their adjacent fixture connected 31 December (15:00 GMT).

The Blues person present mislaid their past 4 matches successful each competitions and six of their erstwhile 8 league games, scoring conscionable 12 times successful their 16 fixtures truthful acold this term.

Everton's plight not been helped by having cardinal guardant Dominic Calvert-Lewin absent for prolonged periods, with the 25-year-old having played conscionable six times this term.

Despite returning to grooming aft a hamstring problem, the England striker was deemed not acceptable capable to play immoderate relation against Wolves and Lampard said the club's deficiency of firepower is thing they volition effort to code successful January aft being near successful a precarious position, conscionable 1 constituent and 1 spot supra the relegation zone.

"Unfortunately, if you are not objective those things tin hap successful shot and we got deed astatine the end," Lampard said.

"It [a deficiency of goals] is simply a interest arsenic if you can't beryllium objective past it is hard due to the fact that it doesn't springiness you a comforting crippled of being goals ahead. It's an evident one.

"We person Dominic hopefully coming backmost for City oregon Brighton. You can't underestimate the powerfulness of losing a subordinate that has been a large portion of providing this club's extremity instrumentality for a fewer years alongside Richarlison [who joined Tottenham past summer].

"In my opinion, this was ever going to beryllium a pugnacious twelvemonth disconnected the backmost of however the summertime went."

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