Wolves 0 Huddersfield Town 1 - Report and pictures

Former Albion youngster Isaiah Brown scored the only goal of the game when his 20-yard effort beat Harry Burgoyne, who had replaced the injured Andy Lonergan minutes before kick off.

The returning Joe Mason was sent on at half time and Graham played for the last half hour - getting a rapturous ovation as he took to the field.

But Wolves lacked inspiration and, aside from a David Edwards shot that hit the post, never looked like equalising.

Analysis

It was a night of comebacks at Molineux...except for the one that mattered most of all.

Jordan Graham, Joe Mason, Silvio and Harry Burgoyne made their first appearances for 15, three, six and three months respectively, while Dominic Iorfa and Jack Price came in after six-week absences.

But Wolves couldn't manage a comeback in terms of the scoreline as Huddersfield saw it out fairly comfortably, writes Tim Spiers at Molineux.

Their margin of victory should have been greater - and it would have been had substitute Collin Quaner not spurned three good chances.

At a chilly Molineux it felt like February - and the game was reminiscent of the consecutive defeats Wolves suffered in that month which dragged them into a relegation dogfight.

The fact they've avoided the drop with a few games to spare is fooling no one as to their improved chances next season with the current squad.

Indeed, this was indicative of so many performances this season - no lack of industry or effort, but a glaring lack of quality and creativity, or a clinical touch when it mattered.

This season is petering out rapidly. Like last season, the goals and excitement have dried up, with just four witnessed in the last four home games.

Wolves have been a good away outfit since Lambert took over (they're sixth in the away table) but a dreadful home record simply has to be addressed with a new way of playing if Wolves are to do anything of note next year.

Goals have been a problem all season long (this was Jon Dadi Bodvarsson's 24th appearance without a goal at Molineux, for example) and a clinical striker must be top of the wish-list this summer.

They'll need plenty more than that on this offering, though.

Lambert pledged to freshen up his XI, but surely no one was expecting the raft of six changes (the most he'd made for consecutive league games as Wolves boss), particularly the personnel who came in.

Silvio, Dominic Iorfa and Jack Price came in from the cold, while Jon Dadi Bodvarsson and captain Danny Batth were recalled and Morgan Gibbs-White was handed his debut first-team start at Molineux.

Conor Coady, George Saville and Nouha Dicko dropped to the bench, while Ivan Cavaleiro, Romain Saiss and the injured Matt Doherty dropped out altogether.

And then Wolves were forced into another change in the warm-up when Andy Lonergan picked up an injury. In came Burgoyne, with Northern Irish teenager Rory Brown promoted to the bench.

There was a familiar face in the Huddersfield side in the form of Rajiv Van La Parra, who was making his first Molineux appearance since leaving under a cloud last March following some ill-advised social media comments.

He was duly booed from the outset - and predictably had a good first half against the struggling Iorfa.

The right-back was by no means the only player to endure a below par half, though, in what was a depressingly insipid performance.

Wolves at least had an early shot on target - in the 10th minute as opposed to the 94th on Saturday - when Edwards headed Iorfa's cross goalwards. The same player also tested keeper Danny Ward when he flicked on a Marshall free kick, in Wolves' only other chance of the half.

But by that point they were already 1-0 down and Edwards played his part in that too, giving the ball away in midfield from where Huddersfield dashed forward and Isaiah Brown beat Burgoyne - who will have been disappointed he didn't save it - from 20-odd yards.

Wolves tried to raise the tempo with some one-touch stuff at times, but in general the spectacle was every bit as dull as the Blackburn draw, only Huddersfield possessed far more quality than Rovers.

Nahki Wells twice went close, with the Terriers overrunning Wolves' midfield. Silvio was tentative, Jack Price lacked fluency, Weimann and Marshall created nothing and Bodvarsson was left isolated as Wolves struggled to appease their frustrated supporters on a cold April evening.

Mason replaced Bodvarsson (the second time in four days Wolves' central striker had been hauled off at half time) for the second half.

No doubt after a rollocking from Lambert, Wolves were much improved. Things like purpose, pace, tempo and urgency, which had seemed against the law for the previous 135 minutes of Molineux football, were back in fashion.

Mason flashed a shot just wide, Edwards hit a post on the turn from close range and Gibbs-White began to grow in confidence on the right wing, as did Silvio on the opposite flank.

Graham's introduction lifted the crowd and Wolves continued to have more of the play, albeit substitute Collin Quaner should have scored with a 10-yard shot that flashed wide.

The same player was wasteful again with 10 minutes left after a sumptuous through ball from Wells. It should have been game over by now but Wolves just couldn't take advantage of their reprieve, with many fans having left the ground by the time the referee put the rest out of their misery.

Key moments

11 - Nahki Wells has a good opportunity from 15 yards but sends his shot over the bar.

31 - GOAL - Edwards gives it away in midfield, Huddersfield advance to the edge of the box where Isaiah Brown lets fly and it beats Burgoyne, who got a hand to it.

53 - Silvio moves forward down the left and pulls back for Weimann - his 18-yard shot is blocked and Edwards' shot on the turn bounces off the near post.

Teams

Wolves (4-2-3-1): Burgoyne; Iorfa, Batth (c), Stearman, Silvio (Dicko, 84); Edwards, Price; Weimann, Gibbs-White (Graham, 62), Marshall; Bodvarsson (Mason, 45). Subs: Brown, Hause, Saville, Coady.

Huddersfield (4-2-3-1): Ward; Crainie, Hefele, Schindler, Lowe; Mooy, Hogg; Scannell (Quaner, 58), Brown (Bunn, 72), Van La Parra; Wells (Billing, 90). Subs: Coleman, Hudson, Whitehead, Holmes-Dennis.

Goal: Brown (31)

Attendance: 17,505 (682 Huddersfield fans)

Referee: Tim Robinson (West Sussex)

Position in the table

15th (55 points from 44 matches)