Wolves: Karl Henry on how Wolves must bounce back by playing ugly

Sep 20 2011

Karl Henry believes Wolves have to rediscover how to play "ugly" as he looks to put his weekend spat with Joey Barton behind him in tonight's Carling Cup clash with Millwall at Molineux.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy dismissed QPR midfielder Barton's claims that Henry "tries to hurt people" after the weekend clash between the sides at Molineux which the visitors won 3-0.

Now his former skipper Henry is looking for below-par Wolves to return to the traits that helped them gain promotion from the Championship and stay in the top flight for the past two seasons.

Henry said: "We want to play football and it is something we've added to our game.

"We've got better players in the team than we had last season. But we've still got to know our identity and what we are about.

"From time to time it is going to be an ugly game and you've got to earn the right to play. We didn't do that against QPR.

"We've not lost our identity but maybe just forget what has got us here in the first place, why we have stayed in the league for two years.