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Watch the match highlights as Wolves are dealt a cruel blow late on after a late defeat at Hull City in the Championship last night.

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Kenny Jackett's young team deserved to extend their six-game unbeaten run, having quite comfortably subdued one of the best teams in the division.

But Robert Snodgrass' free kick, at the 'lasp gasp' stage of injury time, cannoned off goalkeeper Carl Ikeme and into the net to complete a miserable night for the keeper.

It was a bitter defeat for Wolves to take. They had lasted tasted defeat at Middlesbrough on March 4.

This wasn't the swashbuckling, free-flowing attack-fest Jackett is aspiring towards.

But Wolves again displayed some of the admirable qualities that have been littered throughout their recent run.

That's namely defensive rigidity, character, youthful exuberance, team spirit and, on occasion, vibrancy.

They've certainly been better to watch away from home of late, and that was the case again here, impressively so against a team that has only lost once at home all season.

They recovered from an early Ikeme clanger - a howler of the highest order - to equalise through captain for the night Dave Edwards, who headed home Jeremy Helan's pinpoint cross.

It was an incredibly young team, particularly the defence whose average age was a smidgen over 20 years old thanks to the inclusion of Championship debutant Sylvain Deslandes.

But they more than held their own, in a clash that had petered out into a fairly dull encounter before Snodgrass' late intervention.

Defeat was harsh - but, with the season having effectively ended a good while ago, Jackett can only hope that games like this are character building as he starts to look to next season.