Conor Coady explains how Bruno Lage has changed Wolves and made them mean

Conor Coady reckons Wolves are bearing their teeth more this season and being "aggressive" under Bruno Lage after their latest clean sheet.

Wanderers are eighth in the Premier League after holding Chelsea 0-0 on Sunday.

Lage's men shut-out the title contenders with a fifth clean sheet in seven games.

Wolves are still lining up with a three-man defence and wing-backs like under Lage's predecessor Nuno Espirito Santo.

But Lage has got Wolves passing out from the back more using keeper Jose Sa before pressing opponents furiously if they lose possession.

"It's really pleasing," assessed England centre-back Coady, 28.

"We are always proud of keeping clean sheets, that's our goal as a back three or a back five.

"It's important that we try and help the team and that's our role.

"We always defend as an organised compact unit to try and protect Sa as much as we can.

"We're just enjoying learning a new way of football.

"A lot of people look at us, the way we play and think that it's still the same formation and think it's a similar Wolves from the last few years, but it's completely not.

"It's a lot more aggressive Wolves and it's up to us to try and adapt to the way the manager wants to do that.

"All the boys have done that, not just myself.

"The manager has been fantastic.

"The way he speaks, organises and his attention to detail is incredible."

Coady has been in imperious form in the middle of a three-man backline with Max Kilman on his right and Romain Saiss on the left.

Coady and Saiss were part of Wolves' promotion-winning squad but Kilman,24, has this term grown in stature enormously to become an established first team regular.

Coady added: "When you play with players over and over again you start to feel and understand what they want to do.

"We try to do everything together on the pitch and listen to the manager as much as we can."

New keeper Sa, signed from Olympiakos for £6.2million this summer to replace Rui Patricio, made a superb late one-handed save from Christian Pulisic against Chelsea.

Coady said: "The way he speaks and the way he puts himself about in the dressing room has been fantastic.

"He's an incredible character.

"We work a lot on using the keeper as the extra man.

"It's not just about making saves, which we know he can do, but he comes and claims crosses and kicks for counter-attacks.

"He's joining up our play also and that's another way the manager wants us to get better."

But despite their success at the back, Wolves have only scored 13 goals in 18 Premier League games this season.

They have failed to score in 10 different games with only bottom club Norwich failing to score in more.

Coady admitted: "It's the sort of atmosphere you want to bottle up and keep hold of to bring out when the times are not going quite as good."