Wolves have nothing but pride to play for this season as they sit 14th in the table and Vitor Pereira showed he had one eye on 2025-26 as he made five changes for this game. To their credit, they did not play like a team whose mind might be on their summer holidays and instead pushed Palace hard for their win as Jorgen Strand Larsen's second-half header gave them something to fight for,

Goncalo Guedes twice came close to pulling Wolves level before the break, however. First, his deflected drive, following good work by Rayan Ait-Nouri, flew out for a corner, before he crashed an effort into the side netting as the whistle went for the break.