Nuno thrilled with clean sheet in dominant Wolves win
Wolves were brilliant in attack against West Ham, but Nuno Espirito Santo hailed a clean sheet in his side's 3-0 Premier League win.
Nuno Espirito Santo was more satisfied with Wolves' clean sheet than their attacking prowess in the dominant 3-0 win over West Ham on Tuesday.
Romain Saiss' 66th-minute header was followed by two expert finishes from Raul Jimenez at Molineux to complete a win that in truth could have been even more convincing.
West Ham rarely threatened a Wolves side that had conceded in each of their previous six Premier League games and head coach Nuno praised the defensive resilience of his team.
"[The] clean sheet [impressed me most]," he said.
"It is one of the things we should improve and have to keep improving but I'm happy because we didn't concede anything against a very good team."
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Wolves had been frustrated by the brilliant Lukasz Fabianski until Saiss' breakthrough and Nuno was impressed with how his side continued to create chances, while applauding the all-round performance of Jimenez.
"I think we played good," he added. "The first half we played good and had lots of chances but didn't score.
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"We kept the tempo, had good possession, movements. But there was always a danger of counter-attacks, they have good players, [it] needs balance. The team were focused on the task."
On Jimenez, he added: "Yeah, one of the things he does beyond when he scores is he gives good balls, defends, presses, he was very good."
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