Aston Villa boss Dean Smith accused his side of lacking desire after their defeat at Wolves.
Injury-hit Villa lost 2-1 at Molineux on Sunday to slip to a third straight Premier League loss.
Ruben Neves and Raul Jimenez scored as Wolves dominated, despite Trezeguet’s injury-time strike.
“It appeared the game was bigger for them than us. The best thing was it was only 1-0 at half time,” said Smith.
“It’s not really for you to print (what he said at half time). You have to go and compete, it doesn’t matter what game you’re playing.
“We didn’t cope with the pressure we were put under. They were right up for it from the start and we didn’t have enough intensity in our play. That’s something we’ll talk about.
“It won’t take an awful lot to be better.”
“It (the disruption) doesn’t affect your desire to win a header, a tackle and a second ball,” Smith insisted.
Steer’s replacement, Orjan Nyland, was beaten by Neves’ fine 41st-minute strike, the midfielder drilling in from the edge of the box.
Boss Nuno Espirito Santo said: “We always compete, this is very tough to do and it makes me very proud.
“We played very well, we dominated the game, especially in the first half. I’m happy with the performance and atmosphere.
“When you produce so many chances you must finish the actions, we broke a lot of times and we clearly didn’t finish it. We need to improve on that.
“Villa created more problems in the second half, didn’t allow us to press as high, but we’re happy because we made the second goal and could have made more.”
