{"id":427889,"date":"2025-09-16T03:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427889\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:30:22","slug":"vitor-pereira-worried-for-wolves-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427889\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitor Pereira &#8220;worried&#8221; for Wolves this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsallover.com\/tag\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> have to react to their 1-0 defeat away at Fulham, attention now swiftly turning to another trip, this time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsallover.com\/tag\/wolves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolves<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The strengths and weaknesses of Leeds\u2019 start to life back in the Premier League are there for all to see currently.<\/p>\n<p>Defending does not look to be an issue for United, but scoring goals appears a real worry. Thankfully, their next opponents are in even more of a struggle at present.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on LeedsAllOver<\/p>\n<p>Wolves boss Vitor Pereira \u201cworried\u201d for his side ahead of Leeds United<\/p>\n<p>Four points from four games isn\u2019t a disaster for United. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsallover.com\/daniel-farke-leeds-united-job-on-the-line-if-he-cant-see-clear-change-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressure has crept up on Daniel Farke<\/a> to ensure he can mount a survival bid through scoring enough goals to finish 17th.<\/p>\n<p>Up next is a game many will see as a very early \u2018six-pointer\u2019 for Leeds against Vitor Pereira\u2019s Wolves, who are without a point from their opening four games.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-30T153608Z_1122244806_UP1EL8U17C7PL_RTRMADP_3_SOCCER-ENGLAND-WOL-EVE-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56556\"  \/>Leeds United travel to Wolves looking to pile on the pressure on Vitor Pereira\u2019s side. (REUTERS\/David Klein)<\/p>\n<p>Wolves\u2019 latest game brought a narrow 1-0 defeat away at Newcastle United, leaving them rock bottom from four games. Pereira has faith in his side to bounce back soon, but is \u201cworried\u201d at his current situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cLast season we had defeats in four games in a row, but we never lost our focus,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolves.co.uk\/news\/mens-first-team\/20250913-pereira-we-can-increase-the-level-of-the-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolves\u2019 site<\/a>. \u201cWe never lost our way to improve. This is the way to improve, mentally and tactically speaking. It means that we know what we must do with the team, and the team knows what we can do to improve, and this is time to be patient and to support the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to finish a game proud of my players, proud of my team, and today I\u2019m proud of my team. Today, I\u2019m happy. Of course, worried because we didn\u2019t get any points, but this is the way, I want to see my team competing like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Vitor Pereira is rightly concerned as Leeds United travel to Wolves this week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NEW-View-From-FA5-1024x322.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50642\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Wolves had plenty of chances at Newcastle and could have come away with at least a point. You could say the same about us at Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is that goals and wins must come sooner rather than later otherwise you\u2019re fighting an uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, Pereira will know this game against Leeds is must-win. That tension might feed into our plans to frustrate and sting them on the counter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United have to react to their 1-0 defeat away at Fulham, attention now swiftly turning to another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,25764,393,4884,1860,2922,142361,142362,16,15,1752,5774],"class_list":{"0":"post-427889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-elland-road","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-leeds-united","14":"tag-lufc","15":"tag-the-whites","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-vitor-pereira","19":"tag-wolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115211863673701938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}