Wolverhampton Wanderers welcome Newcastle United to the Molineux tomorrow.
Wolves boss Paul Lambert spoke to the Express & Star about his side’s upcoming game against Newcastle United, and explained how he has warned his team to concentrate on the task in hand, rather than focus on Jonjo Shelvey, after the Magpies midfielder incurred the wrath of the Wolves team for making disparaging comments towards Romain Saiss.
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Both sides will be desperate for a win tomorrow, and go into the game in decent form, with the visitors having won three out of their last four, whilst the hosts have won four of their last six in all competitions.
And Lambert spoke to the Express & Star about how he has told his side that they must entirely concentrate on the game of football ahead of them, and not be distracted by the thought of targeting Shelvey in any way:
Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Paul Lambert
“I wasn’t here, I know little bits of what happened but for me it’s a game of football that we’ll play to win. I don’t get too caught up in these things. What happened in the past has happened, I wasn’t here and can only go on what people have told me. They were protecting their team mate, quite rightly so. Like I say I don’t know what was said as such, in depth, but you would expect them to protect their team mate. And Romain’s a really nice guy. The message would be to focus on the game, don’t worry about anything else, just play your game as you have done. Just focus on the game.”
Newcastle’s Jonjo Shelvey in action
Shelvey has been instrumental since his return from his five game ban helping his side with three of the four games in which he has played.
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Rafa Benitez’ men will be looking to cement their place at the top of the Championship table with a win tomorrow, whilst Wolves will be hoping to keep their faint hopes of a play-off spot alive.
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