Wolves enter tonight’s game after defeating Chelsea on Christmas Eve, but at a time when the club is dealing with a sickness bug that has afflicted several players and kept Boubacar Traore, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, and Fabio Silva out of the squad on Sunday.
O’Neil wants to see some of those players, as well as Pedro Neto, return, but they will face a Brentford side that has had a rest after their game against Manchester City was postponed.
“We have players that are ready to play, that haven’t played, so there’s an opportunity to change it a little bit,” he said.
“We’ll see how the boys do.” We called up a handful of lads late (before the Chelsea game), so perhaps we’ll be able to get some back.
“Perhaps Jean. He was sick. Pedro should also be returned, so the squad should be a little deeper than it was against Chelsea.
“However, it will be difficult for us.” Most teams have eight days to complete these three holiday games, but we only have six.
