Wolves 0 Huddersfield Town 2 – Player ratings

Rui Patricio

Helpless for the opening goal of the match, but Patricio was disappointingly beaten at his near post by Aaron Mooy for the second. Iffy distribution with Huddersfield pressing him, too. Made a few saves, but they were mostly regulation. 6/10

Ryan Bennett

Overrun for the first goal, but he was left exposed by Doherty. Not at his best, but he wasn’t the reason Wolves lost this. Distribution wasn’t great – and that’ll be a recurring theme in this list. Oh, and might be best to give up on the 25-yard efforts! 6/10

Conor Coady

A couple of slack passes, but otherwise Coady was superb, he really was. A crunching sliding tackle on Pritchard in the first half was magnificent – and should have been the catalyst for the team to improve. Produced another in the second half too. Sets standards in terms of performance and mentality that his team mates should aspire to. 8/10

Willy Boly

An off-day for the Frenchman who was often hesitant – and particularly dozy at set-pieces. More clearances (six) than anyone else in the team, but he was also guilty – as they all were – of regularly giving the ball away to the opposition. 5/10

Matt Doherty

Surprisingly slack from Doherty for the opening goal when he casually jogged back, allowing Durm to race by him. At the other end of the pitch, he was barely involved in an attacking sense, save for one low cross which went unrewarded. Not his day. 5/10

Ruben Neves

Has endured a real dip in form of late, as has Joao Moutinho, and that’s coincided with Wolves’ winless run. Not influencing games – Huddersfield targeted him and he had no answer. And what is he doing turning in the wall? Perhaps his worst game in a Wolves shirt. 4/10

Joao Moutinho

Had a pass accuracy of 100 per cent, apparently, from 20 passes, although most of those were back to the defence. His withdrawal at half-time shows no player is too big for Nuno to sub. He hadn’t had the worst half, but like Neves his influence was minimal. 5/10

Ruben Vinagre

Handed his big chance to impress in the absence of the injured Jonny and he started with positive, attacking intentions. Got to the byline a couple of times, but that was about it. A pass accuracy of just 62 per cent – incredibly low by Premier League standards. Needs to improve because Jonny's not coming back anytime soon. 5/10

Helder Costa

It was easy to forget he was playing at times. An anonymous performance that had no end product whatsoever. Ran into one great first half position, but then he hesitated – and hesitated some more – before being dispossessed. Well below his recent standards. 5/10

Raul Jimenez

He was 1.8cm away from getting Wolves back into the game with a decent header from Traore’s cross. Some nice interplay, but why on earth didn’t he shoot when through on goal? That was an infuriating moment and the fans let him know it. Looked like he wanted to be anywhere but through on goal at that point. 5/10

Ivan Cavaleiro

During training sessions it’s commonplace that the player who has a stinker suffers a forfeit the next day – Cavaleiro would be doing that after this performance. Absolutely nothing went right for him. Ran down cul-de-sacs and the ball kept bouncing off him. Awful. 3/10

Substitutes

Adama Traore (for Cavaleiro, 45)

Used his pace to threaten and stretch the Huddersfield back line. Made a nuisance of himself but was short of help around him. 6/10

Morgan Gibbs-White (for Moutinho, 45)

Not the inspirational cameo that we saw against Spurs but, again, he lacked help from a confidence-shy team. Plenty of effort and endeavour. Does he start against Cardiff? 6/10

Diogo Jota (for Costa, 75)

One decent chance but otherwise not much of an impact. 5/10

Subs not used: Ruddy, Dendoncker, Saiss, Bonatini.