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Wolves boss O'Neil says Man City thrashing self-inflicted

Wolves boss Gary O'Neil was left disappointed after their 5-1 thrashing by Manchester City.

Erling Haaland scored four goals on the night.

O'Neil said: “I thought we damaged ourselves mostly. The first goal is obviously not really our doing, or our error I don't think. The second goal we lose the ball really cheaply. The last goal is unbelievable where we lose the ball under no pressure.

“They gave everything, but we spoke before that if we make errors against these, they'll punish you and we made too many errors with the ball, a couple of errors when we went to press and didn't go all the way in, and Man City were very clinical and managed to punish us on them.

“We fell short today and I'm disappointed with how we fell short, because there was a lot of effort and determination, but we made some key errors that against a side as good as this you can't make.

“I don't think the first one's a penalty, but at 1-0 we had a real good spell with the ball – a long spell and created a couple of moments with Channy up and around the goal. If they hadn't been given that start, it maybe would have felt a bit different, but the fact that they were in front and we didn't manage to make anything of that spell that we had, and then we gave them a soft second goal, it becomes very difficult then.

“Loads of little things today have meant we weren't able to trouble the best team in Europe too much. It's the ultimate test and we fell short, but we get ready for Crystal Palace."

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