Wolves 2 Derby County 1 - Report and pictures

The mild-mannered 22-year-old is better known for his tidy midfield passing range than for double-goal salvos which completely transform the mood of an entire football club.

Since March 2014 he's only scored one goal. It was away at Yeovil, for Bristol City.

But, at Molineux today, he became King George, finding the net twice in the 14th minute and, for one of the most memorable moments of the season (not many to choose from, admittedly), in the 86th.

It sealed about as sorely-needed a three points as boss Kenny Jackett will ever need. Wolves deserved it, too.

They may not have played the swashbuckling, free-flowing, handbrake-off football that their supporters crave.

But they were far improved on recent performances and fairly comfortably quelled the considerable threat of Derby.

Mostly importantly they produced a display of heart, of spirit, and of character, attributes that should be a given but have come into question during their recent miserable seven-game run.

Molineux came to life in those last four minutes, plus five minutes of stoppage time, with passion, with fervour, with joy. They'd probably forgotten what it felt like.

Wolves (4-3-3): Ikeme; Iorfa, Batth (c), Ebanks-Landell, Doherty; Coady, McDonald, Saville; Byrne (Mason 76), Sigurdarson, Helan.

Subs not used: Martinez, Hause, Price, Rowe, Hunte, Le Fondre.

Goals: Saville (16, 86)

Derby County (4-3-3): Carson; Christie, Keogh (c), Shackell, Olsson; Hendrick, Thorne (Ince 56), Butterfield; Russell (Weimann 56), Martin, Johnson.

Subs not used: Grant, Bryson, Buxton, Hanson, Blackman.

Goal: Martin (44)

Attendance: 19,389 (1,714 Derby fans)

Jackett, as he had on Tuesday, made three changes to his starting line-up in a bid to find that elusive winning formula.

Joe Mason and Kortney Hause dropped to the bench, while boo-boy Rajiv van La Parra was dropped from the squad. In came Saville, debutant Jeremy Helan and Dominic Iorfa in a 4-3-3 formation.

The Wolves boss had called for his team to make a positive start and get the fans onside and they did exactly that.

Within 30 seconds, Byrne's cross was sliced over his own bar by Cyrus Christie, while Wolves won plenty of early tackles in midfield, Conor Coady the main protagonist.

New-boy Helan, playing as a left winger, looked to get involved, showing excellent bursts of pace.

Wolves were looking confident in midfield - and their good start earned them the lead just 14 minutes in.

Coady played to McDonald who found Byrne, he twisted and turned then played inside for Saville, who finished smartly and with composure from 15 yards, finding the bottom corner.

Wolves continued to attack, with Byrne and Matt Doherty both looking to get in behind.

In fact, Doherty should have found the unmarked Byrne after taking a defender on and striding into the box, but didn't look up.

Jackett's team were keeping Derby comfortably at bay. limiting Darren Wassall's side to very few shots, albeit the visitors saw more of the ball. However, just two minutes before the break the Rams drew level.

Saville needlessly tripped Bradley Johnson just outside the box - Martin stepped up and curled a beauty of a 20-yard free kick over the wall and past a helpless Ikeme.

There was a big question mark over the wall, however, which didn't jump.

Martin looked to repeat the trick from further out at the start of the second-half, from 10 yards further back, and wasn't too far wide with his effort.

Then Jacob Butterfield fired a powerful shot from range, which Ikeme held, as Derby began the half on top.

Wassall then sent on Andreas Weimann and Tom Ince, underlining the strength of Derby's squad, in place of George Thorne and Johnny Russell, just before the hour mark.

Wolves responded with a decent spell - McDonald just missed Byrne with a chip into the box, and then Doherty finished superbly when slipping in around the back of the Derby back-line, but was at least a yard offside.

Ince curled a beauty just past the post with practically his first touch and then Johnson fired at Ikeme as Derby pressed.

Wolves were sat deep, soaking up the pressure and looking to hit Wassall's side on the counter, but struggling to make any headway.

Jackett took until the 76th minute to make a change, sending on Mason for Byrne.

It earned a substitution that earned chants of "you don't know what you're doing" from the South Bank for the second consecutive home game.

Sigurdarson dragged a 25-yard shot wide, as goalkeeper Scott Carson remained untested.

The Icelandic striker was then inches away from scoring a memorable late winner in the 83rd minute, picking his spot with a low effort from just outside the box, and striking the outside of the post.

It was so nearly the champagne moment that Wolves and Sigurdarson, yet to score since returning from injury, craved.

But they didn't have to wait much longer, with hero Saville rising highest to head Doherty's looping cross in via the crossbar with just four minutes to go.

Wolves, backed by a joyous and almost disbelieving home support, saw through what remained of the game with relative ease, as the feelgood factor returned to Molineux.