Wolves supervisor Gary O’Neil has stated Matheus Cunha is “feeling excellent” and in rivalry for his aspect’s journey to Arsenal after making a swift return from a hamstring harm sustained in the course of the membership’s pre-season US tour.
Brazilian Cunha scored 14 objectives in 36 matches final season and might be key to Wolves’ probabilities of ending a run of six consecutive defeats towards Arsenal after they begin their 2023-24 Premier League marketing campaign at Emirates Stadium on Saturday (3pm BST).
“Cunha’s effective – raring to go,” stated O’Neil. “He’s labored actually exhausting to get again as rapidly as he has. He’s feeling very, excellent.
“He’s had a great week coaching. He’s educated each day on the grass, so there aren’t any considerations round him. It’s an enormous enhance for us.”
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Wolves ‘in great spot’ vs Arsenal
Regardless of solely being appointed 5 days earlier than the beginning of the marketing campaign and shedding 4 of his first 5 top-flight matches in cost, O’Neil guided Wolves to a cushty 14th-placed end in his first season at Molineux.
Wolves had been briefly in rivalry for European qualification, solely to lose seven and draw considered one of their remaining 10 league video games, in addition to lacking out on an FA Cup semi-final courtesy of a late capitulation at house to second-tier Coventry Metropolis.
“We’ve had a extremely good pre-season,” stated the previous Bournemouth supervisor. “The boys are in excellent spirits, with a great understanding of what we’ve been making an attempt to do.
“We’re in a great spot; we’re able to go and provides a great account of ourselves. I really like being right here, have cherished each second of my yr, and I’m wanting ahead to doing the perfect I can with every thing that now we have right here and the way we’re making an attempt to maneuver ahead.”
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Wideman Nelson Semedo is suspended for Wolves, so Matt Doherty or 18-year-old new signing Pedro Lima might step in after impressing O’Neil throughout pre-season.
O’Neil stated the membership had been ready for the departures of centre-back Max Kilman to West Ham and winger Pedro Neto to Chelsea.
“The membership have had a plan in place and the 2 predominant outgoings had been foreseen – we had a good concept they’d occur early,” he defined.
“You by no means need to lose your greatest gamers however there was all the time a priority round [Neto leaving] later, so the actual fact it’s been accomplished early is useful to us.”
