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We’re not surprised to be in Champions League mix, says Wolves’ Matt Doherty

Matt Doherty insists Wolves’ Champions League ambitions should surprise no-one.

Brighton held them to a 0-0 draw at Molineux on Saturday to damage Nuno Espirito Santo’s hopes of cracking the top four.

He said: “At the start of the season you always have ambitions. With the manager and players we have we’re quite an ambitious team, so the position we’re in now isn’t a huge shock to us.

“We just have to make sure we keep going, keep winning as many games as possible and see where it takes us at the end of the season.”

“We didn’t concede, that was kind of the goal at the start of the game, keep a clean sheet and see if we can win the game, but we didn’t manage to do that,” Doherty told the club’s official website.

“The more clean sheets you have, the more chance you have of winning. That is a positive, but we didn’t win the game.”

“It’s about turning draws into wins and to do that we have to continue to do what we’ve done (against Wolves),” Davy Propper told the club’s official site.

“It’ll give us a lot of confidence going forward and there’s a lot to build on.

“The lads who came on gave us good energy at the right moments in the game and created some dangerous openings. We’ll need everyone in every game between now and the end of the campaign.”

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