Vitor Pereira continued to doubt aspects of the referee in Sunday's 2-1 defeat against Liverpool, but labeled the bad first half of Wolves as their ultimate downfall.
Wolves were 2-0 behind during the break after Luis Diaz opened the score before the penalty of Mohamed Salah Arne Slot's Premier League leaders placed in full control.
The visitors to Anfield, however, remained frustrated when Ibrahima Konate survived that they were rejected during the opening period before Slot pulled the center-back during the break.
Konate was warned about withdrawing Matheus Cunha on the break, with the Liverpool defender then kicking the ball shortly after the whistle.
The French defender then escaped a second yellow card, despite the late Cunha when he disputed for a header, leaving Wolves head coach Pereira behind to interrogate Simon Hooper's official.
“I had some doubts about some decisions, but I can't change the decisions,” said Pereira after the full -time whistle. “It's football. I can't complain because the game ended.
“I can't do anything about it. It's time to think of the next game and to take something positive from this game.”
Wolves had improved much in the last period, where Liverpool failed to try a shot in the second half of a Premier League match for the first time in Anfield, since records started in the 2003-04 period.
Pereira determined that improvement when he regretted a sad opening half, with Cunha's beautiful curly finish in the 67th minute that did not prove enough to drag his side back to the game.
“The lesson is that we are the team that I saw in the second half,” added the Wolves boss. “The first half was a team that I didn't recognize on the field.
“In the first half, a team was scared, with too much respect, in my opinion, and this is not our game. We can't come to Anfield to be part of the party.
“I will think about the next game, and in the next game I will push my team to play while I saw my team playing in the second half.”
Wolves have now lost their last 10 Premier League matches against parties that start the day in the top four, with 23 goals and only four times themselves.
However, this defeat will be even more difficult to take, since Pereira's side was at the top when Hooper sounded the full -time whistle.
“This is football, but I believe that when we play good football, with identity, with our tools, with our qualities, we deserve to get something out of football,” Pereira added.
“I want to win games with merit. I want to win games because we deserve to win. The second half was fantastic, in my opinion it was the team I want to build.”
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