SAM Allardyce's priority as Wanderers prepare to resume their Premiership campaign is to get his defence back into the mean-minded mood they were in earlier in the season.

"We've scored two goals in each of our last three games - at Manchester United, at Aston Villa and Everton," he pointed out, "yet we have only won one of them.

"That's my main concern at the moment. We've scored goals but we have also conceded and the problem we need to resolve is how to get back to keeping clean sheets as we did earlier."