Gareth Southgate was at Molineux again with Max Kilman, one of Wolves’ best players this season, among those on the England manager’s radar. But on a day when Crystal Palace extended their unbeaten away record in 2022 to complete a deserved double over Bruno Lage’s side, this son of a Russian father, now dead, and a Ukrainian mother played an unwitting part in the goals from Jean-Philippe Mateta and Wilfried Zaha.
The former England futsal international has been an ever-present in the Premier League, his calmness and ability to bring the ball out of defence among his attributes, but he was unable to prevent Mateta from giving Patrick Vieira’s side the lead and then conceded the penalty from which Zaha sealed the game. Palace moved into the top half, two places behind a Wolves side falling to their third consecutive defeat.
