Igor Jesus piles more misery on feeble Wolves

Until the 72nd minute, when Nottingham Forest’s Igor Jesus jumped high in the box to head in the only goal, this low-rent contest lurched between the laborious and the ludicrous.

- Ben Fisher

There was an excruciating VAR delay of more than five minutes to disallow the Brazil striker’s first-half header and in the second another needless stoppage for another VAR review to confirm Ryan Yates was about a yard offside amida check for a penalty.

“It’s not football any more,” the South Bank bellowed, though the locals have felt disillusioned with Wolves for quite some time.

When the match-winning moment arrived for Igor Jesus, he took his chance superbly, leaping off above Emmanuel Agbadou and beating to the punch the Wolves goalkeeper, Sam Johnstone, who flew erratically from his goal to clear. The cross was abeauty, too: Omari Hutchinson, on his first league start for Forest, cutting inside on to his left foot and sending a delicious cross into the box. Igor Jesus’s disallowed goal also stemmed from a Hutchinson cross, albeit a corner, butan offside Dan Ndoye was deemed to be impeding Johnstone.