Wolves boss Paul Lambert: We need a break

A tumultuous 10 months will end with Wolves in mid-table ahead of a crucial summer in the transfer market.

Lambert made seven changes to his XI on Tuesday night, citing tiredness for some.

And he said the end of the season will come at a good time for the club.

"I think we need the break," he said. "It'll come at a good time.

"Last season I think Blackburn had 11 games in 31 days – you felt you were never away from it.

"Some of the staff have felt the same. We seem to have been playing Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday for a long time.

"The lads have been great with their effort and the level of games they've played. It's been more or less the same group that's been playing – that's why I decided to freshen it up on Tuesday."

Wolves play away from home at Derby today hoping to continue an impressive away record which has seen them win half of their 16 matches under Lambert.

But it's their poor Molineux form (Wolves possess the third worst home record) that has held Lambert's team back this season.

Lambert knows it may not be a quick fix to rectify that poor home form.

"I spoke to some managers after the game and whoever we're playing has watched us previously and said that if you get the crowd against them things will turn," Lambert said.

"You know that's what teams can look at...'if we bed in for 15-20 minutes and nick a goal the crowd can get against them'.

"The home form is something we need to address, come the summer.

"The away form has been excellent, at home teams come and sit in against us. If they nick a goal we find it doubly hard to break them down, if teams come and sit in and we do get the goal then they've got to come out and the game opens up.

"We have to be more clinical at that end of the pitch. Brighton came and sat in, Newcastle done it, Blackburn done it, Huddersfield done it.

"That's something we'll work on and be a lot better for. I don't imagine two strikers will score five or six goals between them again in a season, so that'll take the pressure off. We'll have more of a threat at that end."