Birmingham 2 Wolves 1 - Report and pictures

Benik Afobe gave them the ideal start at St Andrews when he turned home Nouha Dicko's cross.

But Rob Kiernan levelled for Blues - though the goal should have been awarded to Jonathan Grounds.

And Demarai Gray then won it when he pounced on slack defending from Scott Golbourne to fire home.

The result ended Wolves four game winning run and drops Kenny Jackett's side out of the top six and down to eighth on goal difference ahead of Tuesday's trip to Middlesbrough.

After working so hard to get into the play-off places, the head coach will be frustrated at the way his team so easily gave it away.

Their defending, for both goals, left a lot to be desired. Unsurprisingly, Jackett kept faith with the same XI which started Monday's 4-3 win over Leeds.

Blues boss Gary Rowett meanwhile made three changes from the side which lost 4-2 at Bournemouth, with former Wolves midfielder David Davis dropping to the bench.

After a scrappy start, Diego Fabbrini had the first effort with an attempted lob which Ikeme caught after a brief backpedal.

James Henry has Wolves' first shot soon after but saw it deflected over Darren Randolph's goal by a Blues boot.

The clearest opening of the opening 20 minutes came to Gray but his shot from 25 yards was straight at Ikeme.

Soon after Wolves were ahead as Afobe got his 11th since joining the club - though he owed it all to strike partner Dicko.

The Mali international showed greater desire to win the ball in a 50-50 with Kiernan before racing into the box and squaring for Afobe to apply the simplest of finishes.

The lead lasted only four minutes and though Kiernan was initially awarded to Grounds when reviewed.

Ikeme saved Kiernan's header from a corner and the loose ball fell to Grounds, whose deflected shot was at least a couple of yards over the line, before his defensive partner made no mistake after Wolves had cleared.

From then until the break, the hosts were marginally the better side with Robert Tesche hitting the side netting on the turn.

Gray then whipped a cross yards in front of Ikeme's goal, with no home player there to apply the finishing touch.

For Wolves, Henry fired straight at Randolph from inside the box, while Dicko forced the keeper into a save at his near post after shooting from distance.

It was tight, with neither side able to build any sustained pressure until, 16 minutes into the second half, Blues were gifted a second.

Ironically, it came after Golbourne's cross had won the visitors a corner.

But the hosts broke quickly and though Golbourne looked to have Gray beaten in the foot race, he dawdled on the back pass allowing the Blues man to nip in and finish past Ikeme.

Henry shot straight at Randolph from distance but it was Blues who were pressing more, with a Caddis cross just too far in front of Clayton Donaldson.

Wolves upped the tempo as the game entered the last ten minutes, with McDonald shooting badly over from ten yards after Dominic Iorfa's cross had been blocked.

But they always looked short of ideas and in the end Blues held out for a deserved win in relative comfort.