GARY JOHNSON believes Bristol City can learn from the experience at Wolves and turn it to their advantage for tonight's West Country derby against Plymouth Argyle at Ashton Gate.

City manager Johnson sees it as an opportunity to do to the Pilgrims what Wolves and their supporters did to City as the leaders won 2-0 at Molineux.

Johnson said: "This is our chance to create a bit of forward momentum and seize the initiative, just as Wolves did against us.

"They came out very fast, threw everything at us in the opening 20 minutes and pegged us back as we thought they would. You come to expect that when you go to these big clubs in the Championship and it's something you have to deal with.

"Now we need to do the same thing in front of our supporters at Ashton Gate. We have to look to put Plymouth under pressure right from the very start.

"It's good that we have another game so soon afterwards. It gives us an opportunity to put things right and put what happened at Wolves behind us."

Johnson will check on the fitness of the players in training this morning after a few of them suffered knocks at Wolves.

He will also have to decide whether to retain Chris Weale in goal or recall the fit-again Adriano Basso. Weale made an error for the first goal at Wolves and Johnson said: "I have to judge whether that has affected his confidence before deciding who I play in goal."