Wes Brown is hoping new Sunderland boss Martin O'Neill can bring back self belief in the players. O'Neill officially took charge of Sunderland on Monday just a day after watching his new club slip to 17th in the table after losing 2-1 to Wolves.
Brown told Sunderland's official website: "He (O'Neill) has inherited a great team with good quality, we just need to start gelling and winning games.
"When we missed the penalty you could see heads going down and that's what we don't need, we needed to stay focused. We were winning the game 1-0, very comfortably I thought.
"But we missed the penalty and within a minute they scored. Suddenly they were attacking us and we got our heads down. We were maybe feeling sorry for ourselves and the rest is history."
Former Aston Villa manager O'Neill met his players for the first time on Saturday but caretaker-manager Eric Black took control at Molineux.
"He (O'Neill) didn't say much to us on Saturday, he just introduced himself, said hello to everyone," said Brown. "He was at the game but he left most of it to Blackie."
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