Wolves boss Mick McCarthy admits his players are demoralised by recent results but believes they have the quality to turn things around.

The Midlands club started the Premier League season undefeated after three matches, but have lost their last four games, including three at Molineux, seeing them fall to 14th in the table.

But McCarthy feels his team have not played poorly on the whole and have simply seen ‘every little mistake’ punished, and is confident that his players can start picking up results to avoid another last-day relegation scrap.

“Of course they are hurting, but it doesn’t have a bearing on you every game you play afterwards,” McCarthy told the club’s official website.

“We started well against Newcastle but then you consider we’ve lost three games on the bounce, and you concede from a corner, it just knocks the guts out of you for a while.”

“Every little mistake it seems we’re being punished for at the minute and that can happen in this league.”

“I think we’ve still only played poorly once this season – QPR was a poor performance and apart from that we’ve played well.”

“I don’t want us to leave it until the last three minutes of the season before clinching survival. The best place to stop this run is where we go a week on Sunday.”

Wolves travel to local rivals West Bromwich Albion on October 16 after the international