Wolves won't shrink from challenge

Wolves' recent inability to convert excellent performances into victories will not erode their mental strength, manager Mick McCarthy said. McCarthy's team have only won one Premier League game since the opening day of the season despite some stirring performances against big-name opposition in recent weeks.Wolves play Arsenal at Molineux on Wednesday night, but McCarthy has warned that his team will be under more mental pressure in the coming weeks, when they face sides closer to them in the table.He said: "Playing against teams when you're expected to get beaten, the pressure is off a little bit and you can handle that."You can get the ball down, pass it and play well."I think the difficulty will be playing against Bolton, Blackpool, Blackburn and Sunderland, if those are the teams you're expected to get the points from."That's when you've got to be able to play well and pick them up."Those games are going to be just as difficult, for different reasons, because the pressure and the focus will be more on us."But despite this extra pressure, McCarthy will not be hiring any of the psychologists who bombard the club with calls when his team is short on points."Whenever you're struggling, I get floods of them," he said"When you're doing well I don't seem to see any of them at all."I didn't get any at the end of last season."They'll all be coming, and they'll all be getting the same straight bat back."I don't want the world's Yellow Pages of psychologists ringing me up and telling me that they're going to help because it's not going to happen."We do have a sports psychologist (Bill Stevens), he sees all the players individually and then if somebody wants to see him, then they do."We embrace all the technology and things that we can do to make ourselves better, I just don't want everyone ringing me and telling me they can make us better."McCarthy joked that as a player, his one experience of sports psychology did not go quite as planned."I was asked to see a psychologist in Lyon when I played there, and I came out with my arm around him telling him not to worry."I said 'I'm 30, I've come to France, I've got a mortgage and three kids, I've made 400 league appearances and I'm the captain of my country, I'm going to the World Cup - go on, I'll go and see him then'."I walked out and said 'don't worry, it'll be all right mate, keep your chin up."I didn't see him again."Well I did, but he was on the other side of the couch."

Source: Team_Talk