Johnny Phillips: Molineux is home to another visiting party

Those home supporters who did turn up were in no mood to give Paul Lambert's team the benefit of the doubt only three days after sitting through the soporific draw at home to Blackburn.

Against Huddersfield this was a different kind of torment; death by a thousand misplaced passes. A much-changed team struggling for cohesion and purpose, writes Johnny Phillips.

There was only one side with anything tangible to play for and it showed.

Terriers boss David Wagner cut a joyous figure at full-time, with bear hugs all round for the management before players and staff made their way over to the visiting fans in the Steve Bull Stand to celebrate together.

Good for them, it is no mean feat for a club of Huddersfield's resources to reach the play-offs at the expense of bigger beasts in this division like Villa, Nottingham Forest, Derby, Cardiff and Wolves.

We have seen all this before at Molineux, although it hasn't always been as straight forward.

Back in May 1992 fans woke up to discover the famous old ground had suffered an arson attack and SWAT teams were combing the pitch for explosives.

The Division Two game against Middlesbrough went ahead after this bizarre prelude and the Teessiders clinched promotion to the top flight.

Seven years later, Paul Jewell and his Bradford team danced across the pitch at full-time to celebrate their first ever promotion to the Premier League.

Only a couple of weeks ago, Brighton took a giant step towards promotion here and Wolves fans winced as the away fans partied.

It is all very hard to stomach.

On Tuesday there were sarcastic cheers when Wolves players strung a couple of passes together. The players had lost the crowd early on and most had headed for the exits before full-time.

What Lambert and his coaching staff must do now is plot a promotion challenge next season like the one Wagner has masterminded.

Tuesday's game may have been a waste of time for supporters but it had its uses. Jordan Graham made a welcome return, Morgan Gibbs-White got a full home debut and there was a game for forgotten full-back Silvio. He actually looked like a round peg in a round hole.

If others were playing for a place in the management's future plans you wouldn't have known, very little went right for them and the man who cut the sorriest figure was substituted at half-time. Jon Dadi Bodvarsson barely touched the ball in 45 minutes of fruitless running up front. The wait goes on for his first goal at Molineux.

But if there is one player among those who have had a disappointing season that should be a part of Lambert's future plans it is the Icelandic striker.

Think back to a mild Tuesday night in September. Walter Zenga's side had just beaten Brentford 3-1 at Molineux. Joao Teixeira – whatever happened to him? – grabbed the headlines with two goals and substitute Ivan Cavaleiro rounded off an impressive team night with an injury-time third. But the real star of that autumn evening was Bodvarsson. He left the pitch battered and bruised having left every ounce of effort out on the pitch. His was a brilliant performance in leading the front line.

Every ball lumped forward stuck to Bodvarsson that night. He ran opposing defenders ragged and proved a perfect foil for the gifted wide players in the Wolves line up.

The third goal was all his own work, winning the ball in midfield, breaking forward and playing a killer pass to Cavaleiro. Here was a player in form and enjoying his football. Only a few months earlier he had been part of Iceland's historic run at Euro 2016, playing a key part in the country's march to the quarter-finals.

The lad needs a break. Two summers ago he was playing in Norway's Tippilegaen with Viking Stavangar. When the Norwegian league finished he headed off to join up with Kaiserslautern in January 2016. Another summer of football followed at the Euros in France before he moved to the West Midlands. The 24-year-old hasn't had a proper rest in more than two years.

He is a fine professional who puts the team over his own personal performances, but now is the time for the management to do what's best for him. A decent rest over the summer is what is needed if Wolves are to get the best from the player.

Bodvarsson has the potential to be very successful in this division. I'd like to seen him play in a front pair with a quick, proven goalscorer or just off the striker in a slightly advanced midfield role.

Bodvarsson may not reflect on his first season in England with much fondness but it shouldn't be allowed to affect him going forward. Wolves and their Icelandic forward can be a very different proposition next season.