Crystal Palace spoil Rob Edwards’ Wolves homecoming

Rob Edwards suffered a 2-0 defeat to Crystal Palace in his first game in charge of Wolves via second-half goals from Daniel Munoz and Yeremy Pino.

Edwards left Middlesbrough to join Wolves 10 days ago but the change of manager did not stop them from suffering a 10th league defeat of the campaign.

The first period made for an entertaining battle from which Palace should have been on top, but Jean-Philippe Mateta’s one-on-one miss let the hosts off the hook.

Wolves looked good value to keep their first clean sheet of the season but Munoz’s opener sunk the confidence from an already depleted side before Pino produced a stunning strike to seal the points.

Wolves are still without a win nearly a third of the way into the season and sit nine points adrift of safety, leaving Edwards with a big job to keep them in the top flight.

The former Wanderers defender was given a massive cheer and applause from all four stands as he took the Molineux dugout for the first time but that positivity soon turned to boos following 90 minutes.

His first line-up saw Tolu Arokodare and Jorgen Strand Larsen start together for the first time this campaign, while Marc Guehi and Mateta both played for Palace after recovering from minor issues.

The first sight of goal came just shy of the 10-minute mark when Strand Larsen’s turn worked an opening but he fired high and wide.

Palace felt they should have had a penalty when David Moller Wolfe brought down Ismaila Sarr on the cusp of the penalty area, but the foul was deemed by VAR to be outside the box and Palace failed to threaten from the resulting free-kick.

Palace ought to have been a goal up in 16th minute when Pino cleverly flicked Adam Wharton’s pass and set Mateta through one-on-one with Sam