Every word from Andoni Iraola's pre-Wolves press conference

He provided an update on team news and injuries, as well as reflecting on the Brighton defeat and becoming more efficient with their chances.

Here’s every word the boss said in the broadcast section of this morning’s press conference.

Jeremy Langdon [Sky Sports News]: Team use for this one, obviously no Semenyo, are there any other fresh injury problems?

Andoni Iraola: No. Basically it will be the same players. We recover Ryan [Christie] from the suspension, but as you said, we will have Antoine out.

It is obviously another important player. And the ones that were injured, you know situations, they are long term injuries in Alex [Scott] and Julian's [Araujo] cases. And Sini [Luis Sinisterra] continues his rehab.

We have one or two players with small things, but I hope they are available for tomorrow.

SSN: Semenyo has played all 12 games so far. He's been sensational. No Semenyo, no problem?

AI: No, obviously he's a player you don't want to lose and he was doing very good things. Also we will use this week and we are using this week for him to de-load him a little bit.

And also with the kind of break he had with the international break, I think we will focus it in a positive way and he can have like a small break and then be ready again for a very demanding month of December.

SSN: So he’s suspended and last week Christie was suspended for reaching five yellows. You've got three other players on four yellows and you have 34 yellow cards as a team for the season.

Only a few clubs have got more than that. So is there a yellow card problem?

AI: No, I think there are some clubs with more yellow cards than us. But it's true that the way we play, sometimes you risk, when you go to press aggressive, you risk to arrive a little bit late.

Then sometimes you have to accept the yellows. When these are the cases, I have no issues. Sometimes you have to take a yellow because you have to make the foul because it's a very dangerous situation for the opposition.

We can blame ourselves if it's because dissent or because you touch a ball when you shouldn't. And this kind of yellows that probably we should avoid because after we see that they have consequences.

SSN: You've lost the last two games narrowly, maybe unluckily. Have you just hit a bump in the road?

AI: Yeah, I think we've kind of lost a little bit, like the advantage or the plus we got after beating difficult teams.

And now after these two losses, I also think they were difficult games because Brighton they are in a very good place right now and they are a hell of a team. But we were not as efficient as we were in other games.

And if we are not close to our 100% we don't win games and we have to continue doing the good stuff we are doing but improve in the moments where the points are shared.

SSN: Wolves are next and they're rejuvenated. They've won their last two. How tricky is this one going to be?

AI: I think it's going to be a difficult game because they for sure they are in the best moment of the season and they come with the last four with no losses.

They have had after a difficult start also schedule wise they played all the top teams like energy boost after winning these last two games and we have to be ready for a very good team.

We are facing now this week I think three opponents, Wolves, Spurs, Ipswich, that the three of them are now probably in a very good moment, in very good run. So we will have to be also at their level because we have difficult games ahead of us.

SSN: It's you against Gary O’Neil the man, of course, you replaced here. Since you replaced him, Andoni, you've now been in charge for 50 Premier League games and your record is won 17, drawn 12 and lost 21.

How good do you think that record is?

AI: I think it has been probably good. But you know, this is season by season. It's not like you don't carry the points from past season to this one or no, no, no.

This we start again now we have 15, we continue needing much more so we have to continue adding points to this and we judge our seasons season by season.

And how many points you got this season? This okay, good, bad in the middle. This season we'll see. So we have to judge it like this, I think.

SSN: But I mean it's excellent really, isn't it? And the justification that Bournemouth have shown in you after replacing Gary has been absolutely justified, hasn't it?

AI: I wouldn't say it like this.

I've said it I think past season a lot of times when Gary was here, he made a hell of a job. First season after promotion, we are seeing it every season how difficult it is to survive. And obviously everyone, the players, the staff, everyone did it and I think it's how I see it.

SSN: Just one final one. Are you happy with Kepa’s form the last couple of games? There have been one or two things which have happened where maybe he's been at fault Is there any sense that Travers might come back?

AI: I think he played well the other day. I think the two goals we conceded is basically lovely plays from Brighton players.

I think the other day, especially Joao Pedro, Mitoma made the difference. I think we had and we have been looking more at the other side of the pitch where we had many more but many, many, many more chances in the opposition box and we didn't materialise and they found especially these players who made a difference and that was for me, the main reason we didn't win.

Paul Belverstone (Premier League Productions): Hi, Andoni. Have you been surprised by Wolves turnaround or when they were going through their difficult patch, were they deserving more than they got?

AI: No, I haven't been surprised because at the end they've played the first run of fixtures they've had.

It was very, very difficult. No, they've played against all the top teams. It happened a little bit similar to us past season.

Now when they've had, it's never easy in the Premier League, but at least more winnable or at least more games against teams around their level. They've been very good and we are going to face them probably in their best moment after a huge result.

To win 4-1 at Fulham away is a huge result because Fulham are playing also very well. So for sure they are full of confidence and willing to recover the points that for sure they think they've lost at the beginning.

PB: Standout player for them, getting a lot of attention at the moment, Matheus Cunha. What does he do that's impressing you at the moment?

AI: He's a difference maker.

Every team knowing the Premier League has, we saw it against Brighton, in the end, Mitoma, Joao Pedro, players that they don't need a lot to score, to make big plays, to give an assist.

And Cunha is their player. I know him very well because I also played against him in La Liga from Atletico Madrid. I know very well also Larsen. I played against him and they are two top players. Top, top players.

I think Wolves have a technically very, very, very good squad. Very good players. You know, everyone has level on the ball, so it's not an easy opponent to press because everyone is quite comfortable on the ball.

They have good quality, not only the forwards, the midfielders. They play with Brazil a lot of games, with international games, the defenders, the full backs, everyone is comfortable on the ball and I think it's going to be demanding for us because it's not going to be easy to take the ball from them.

PB: One on Gary. He had one transfer window in his time here and the club paid for three players. Dango, Ilia and Antoine.

When you saw him last season, did you say thank you for having a bottle of wine for those three players?

AI: No, it was obviously a good window in that moment. And yes, it's always difficult to recruit players.

Two cases from abroad Antoine is English. But yes, good recruitment in that moment. And it's good from the club especially, yes.

PB: With Antoine, you mentioned to Jeremy in general about the yellow cards, but the position he plays, I know there are risks with the pressing game, but should he be picking up five yellows in 12 games?

AI: I think it's something that can happen. I don't want him to stop going to the duels or stop going to the aerial duels, to the press or not to receive a yellow.

I think in his case he has had, I think two yellows because of dissent or after a foul, probably not having the best behaviour and probably we have to look more there than the foul that sometimes you have to make.

PB: And with Marcos [Senesi], Justin [Kluivert] on the four yellows, does that come into your mind at all when it comes to team selection and also the instructions you're giving them the way you want them to play?

AI: It comes into my mind, yes. It comes when we are playing and you don't want to lose them all together, especially now that we are quite short of players.

The other day we lose Antoine first half, we know, Marcos is on four and probably there is a part where I say we can lose also Marcos and we can also lose, careful, with Justin. But we will have to adapt at the end.

It's like injuries, you never know when they are coming and that's why we have more players in the squad. And I think it's the moment now for these players to take their chances to perform and to show that we are more than just 13, 14, 15 that are the ones with more minutes.

PB: After the Arsenal Villa City run, you said you were worried that there could be a natural drop in mentality. When you look back at the last two games, as difficult as the opposition are, did that come true at all? Do you have any complaints about that side of things?

AI: It's difficult to say and to prove because I think both games we've had many more chances than the opposition and probably you can already know we've been there we’ve deserved much more. But it's true that we conceded an early goal the other day, early goal, second half.

We conceded after scoring the 1-2 in Brentford in a key moment of the game. So probably, we are not a team that we are winning games where we are not playing very well and this is the next step we need to make. You know, when you start winning games, when you are playing average or sometimes even poor, is that it's good for other teams.

We need to play well and to finish well and to do a lot of things well to win. So we have to continue until we grow as a team and we are more and more efficient and we don't need a lot of chances and we don't need a lot of control and be around the box a lot of times.

We have to continue doing a lot of things well. Brighton here didn't have one corner against us. They didn't have one corner, you know, but they arrived two, three times and then boom, boom.

They know when to hurt you, to punish you. And we have to value every chance we have. I think there is no guarantee that sometimes we have a lot of time around the box and, okay, we'll take another one and it will come.

No, no, you have to score this one. Maybe you don't have a second one or you don't have a third one. And this is the difference that top teams or teams that are in the first part of the standings are making.