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Delighted Nuno tells fans to keep on dreaming after emphatic drubbing – report

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With the whole of Wolverhampton waking up on cloud nine this morning, they will be glad to read that manager Nuno Espirito Santo has no intention of pulling them down from the heavens.

Following the club’s emphatic 4-0 win over Spanish side Espanyol yesterday evening, Nuno’s focus was typically on the next match, before stating that ‘dreaming is for free’.

Diogo Jota scored a hat-trick to put the club pretty much through to the next round, but the night is likely to be remembered for a goal that shook the Black Country – a Ruben Neves volley of the very highest order.

The manager told Birmingham Live: “I think, and honestly, now we have to recover and rest because we play Sunday. Then we are going to think about these things. But dreaming is for free.”

“I think it was a good performance, better in the second half. The first half was not so good because Espanyol created a lot of problems for us in possession. I think we adjusted for the second half and scored beautiful goals. It was a very good evening for us.”

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Wanderers supporters will know better than anyone that the manager doesn’t like to get carried away, but his messages here seems clear: don’t stop believing that we can win this.

It’s obviously the coach’s job to keep the player’s feet on the ground, but it seems as if he wants the Wolves fans to truly think that they can go all the way, in the hope that they inject that belief during their matches.

For the club to throw this away now would be simply unheard of. It’s a result which, not only releases huge amounts of pressure for the team’s trip to Barcelona next week, but will also free them from their shackles when they play Norwich City on Sunday as they will not be having their mind on anything else.

Even though Espanyol are rooted to the bottom of La Liga, the ease in which the club put them away is surely a huge wake-up call for the other teams in the competition.

With big clubs such as Inter Milan, Manchester United, Arsenal, Roma, Sevilla and Benfica all still in the contest, Nuno’s side surely has to be apart of that group who genuinely have a real shot of winning the whole thing.

Nuno and his boys have now set up a relaxing trip to Barcelona for many of their fans, which will undoubtedly be appreciated by lots of supporters’ fingernails.

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