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Bristol City 3 Wolves 1 - player ratings

Wolves correspondent Tim Spiers rates the players after a disappointing 3-1 defeat against Bristol City.

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Andy Lonergan

Couldn't be faulted for the first two, but no dive for Bristol City's third goal when Abraham's shot caught him by surprise. One excellent save to deny an Aden Flint header. 6/10

Conor Coady

Plenty of effort as ever from Coady, but that effort wasn't matched by those around him. He was ineffectual going forward. 5/10

Danny Batth

A poor day for the skipper who, like so many of his team mates, slipped below his recent standards. Should have stopped the ball across goal for the third. 5/10

Kortney Hause

The pick of the back four, although that wasn't saying much. Kept a relatively cool head although there were a couple of dodgy moments in the first half. 6/10

Matt Doherty

Had a real off-day. A yard off the pace. Clumsy challenge for the penalty when he allowed Little to get the better of him. And inexplicably trod on the ball when he should have scored early in the second half...20 seconds later it was 2-0. He's found it tough to reproduce his consistency from the second half of last season. 4/10

Lee Evans

Felt like a game too far for Evans who had played the last four in a row after barely featuring this season. A surprise that he started as he looked tired towards the end on Tuesday and Lambert has Price, Saville and Saiss as options. Another who didn't get to grips with the intensity that would be required to beat a team scrapping for their lives. 4/10

David Edwards

Kept things simple but Wolves needed to get a grip of the midfield battle, particularly from minutes 20 to 45 when Bristol City began to take charge, and Edwards couldn't manage it. 5/10

Andreas Weimann

A couple of promising moments in good areas including when his cross was just ahead of Dicko, and when he broke from midfield in the build-up to that Doherty chance. But that was it. 5/10

Morgan Gibbs-White

For a 17-year-old making his full professional debut away from home against fired-up Championship opposition, this was a decent start which showed some promise. Slipped in Dicko with a lovely through ball early on. And produced one rampaging run to set up a Marshall chance. He was surprisingly withdrawn a minute later as Lambert called on Cavaleiro. Showed good composure, technique and positive thinking. 6/10

Ben Marshall

Like Evans, he looked leggy on Tuesday and found it hard to reach full pelt here. Still produced some dangerous moments, including when he clipped a cross/shot just wide. 5/10

Nouha Dicko

Missed a golden opportunity to break the deadlock in the ninth minute when clean through on goal...but spurned it. Perhaps had too much time to think about it after running 20 yards towards goal. Who knows what would have happened had that gone in. 5/10

Substitutes

Ivan Cavaleiro (for Gibbs-White, 54)

A couple of flashes here and there but he didn't really influence the game. 5/10

Jon Dadi Bodvarsson (for Dicko, 63)

It took seven months and 20 days...35 appearances...31 hours and 17 minutes of playing time...but the wait is finally over.

For a striker whose confidence has cleared taken a few knocks during that long drought, this will hopefully do him (and Wolves) the world of good.

Notable that he didn't milk the moment with a celebration - he ran straight back to the centre circle.

Won a few flick-ons and ruffled a few feathers in the Bristol City defence too. A good cameo and a well-taken finish. With a long-overdue rest this summer he has plenty to offer next season. 7/10

Romain Saiss (for Evans, 80)

Nothing of note. N/A

Subs not used: Burgoyne, Williamson, Saville, Price.

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