Wolves sharp-shooter Sylvan Ebanks-Blake is confident the top-flight goals will soon start to flow as the team look to move away from the lower reaches of the table.

The two-times Championship Golden Boot winner and current Championship Player of the Year has suffered a frustrating start to life in the Barclays Premier League thanks in the main to picking up a hamstring injury in the opening day.

He has since returned to the starting line-up, notching his first top flight goal courtesy of a penalty against Aston Villa, and is now very much on the hunt for a second.

His performances against the unforgiving defences of Arsenal and Chelsea have been praised by his manager, and indeed he found space for an excellent chance in each, firing inches wide from a corner against the Gunners and then being denied by an immense save from Petr Cech at Stamford Bridge.

But happiness at being able to find the time for such opportunities has been tempered by the desire to start putting the ball in the net at regular intervals.

"It's always important as a striker to make sure you get some chances and last season those recent chances might have gone in for me," says Sylvan.

"As long as I'm getting chances I'm always confident that I'll put them in the back of the net.

"It's only a matter of time or maybe a matter of inches before one of them goes in and then hopefully they start flowing.

"I'm happy that I've been getting on the end of chances in games and if they keep coming then I'll score goals.

"I'm very strong mentally to believe I will score goals at this level and hopefully sooner rather than later."

The save from Cech last weekend may not have dramatically altered the course of Wolves' afternoon but it certainly drew a sharp intake of air from both players and supporters alike.

"It was incredible and one of their players Belletti said at the time it was a world class save," adds Sylvan.

"And it was!

"I did everything I could with it - I headed it down and it skidded off the wet surface but somehow he scooped it away.

"You're talking about probably the number one or two keeper in the world and keepers can define games sometimes.

"On any other day that would have gone in - it was a great save."

Now putting that save to the back of his mind Sylvan is also keen that the team as a whole don't dwell on their encounters with the 'Big Four' and instead concentrate on the future rather than the past.

And that starts with Birmingham tomorrow.

"It's time to move on from Arsenal and Chelsea and look ahead to Birmingham," he explains.

"I don't think there were many positives to take away from those games.

"We didn't get any points and conceded a few goals so we need to put that to the back of our minds and think about what's a really big game on Sunday.

"These next two games are the sort of games which will define our season, more so than Chelsea and Arsenal.

"It is a very important game but we also have to remember that Birmingham are a good team themselves who have been going well.

"They came up with us last year when we had some good games and derbies can always be tricky as well.

"But we're all looking forward to it and hopefully will get the right result."

It's been a determined looking squad in training all week, and all in good spirits ahead of what is sure to be another nerve-jangling 90 minutes.

"Confidence levels are fine," says Sylvan.

"The atmosphere here is always generally very good.

"In some ways it's a bit more difficult this year because you don't get the games coming thick and fast to rectify things and you have to wait a week.

"Often in the Championship you're back out there after a couple of days and can put results right.

"The spirit here though is good and we're all itching for another game to come around to try and get some more points on the board."