Ipswich Town 3 (Lee 42, Counago 52, Haynes 90)
Wolves 0
Wolves slipped to their worst defeat of the season as their six game unbeaten run came to an abrupt end at Portman Road where home specialists Ipswich Town rattled in three without reply to record a tenth consecutive victory on their own territory.
Stephen Ward returned in place of the injured Darron Gibson and Andy Keogh took a place on the bench with Freddy Eastwood starting his first game since the home defeat against Hull in mid-September.
And Eastwood had the chance to mark his return in style when Wolves were awarded a fifth minute penalty. Seyi Olofinjana's through ball to Eastwood skidded through to Fabian Wilnis who underhit a backpass to Neil Alexander.
Michael Kightly raced in and took a touch before going down under Alexander's challenge. The referee immediately awarded a penalty but Eastwood, who adapted the start-stop run up to the spot, saw his kick comfortably saved by the keeper (pictured).
Wolves were making all the early running and, apart from the penalty, they forced three corners inside the first ten minutes.
Jay Bothroyd volleyed wide after Kightly had knocked the ball back into his path, before Ipswich threatened when Karl Henry was penalised for a challenge on Billy Clarke 20-yards out with Dan Harding curling the free-kick narrowly over the bar.
Sylvain Legwinski glanced a header wide when he connected with Owen Garvan's centre, and Kightly volleyed over the bar when the ball fell to him in the left of the Town area.
Alan Lee went into the book after catching Jody Craddock with his arm in an aerial challenge, and then the Ipswich striker created a great chance for Jonathan Walters when he put him in the clear. Walters was stationed to the right of Wayne Hennessey's goal but his shot was nearer to the corner flag than the far post.
But, three minutes before the break, the Tractor Boys moved into the lead. Garvan planted a through pass into the heart of the Wolves box. When Craddock missed his tackle with Lee, the Ipswich man coolly slotted an angled shot past Hennessey.
Alexander needed two attempts to claim a long-range effort from Henry as the visitors looked for an immediate response, and Bothroyd was even closer as the game drifted into stoppage time.
The ball was half cleared to the striker who, from just outside the box, hit a shot that Alexander knocked into the air and then ran back to smother on the goal-line.
Half-Time: Town 1 Wolves 0
Mick McCarthy made two changes for the start of the new half with Matthew Jarvis replacing Eastwood and Mark Little coming on for Craddock. Stephen Ward moved into the middle alongside Bothroyd and Neill Collins took up a central defensive position with Little slotting in at left-back.
Three minutes into the half, Hennessey had to turn behind a low, 30-yard shot from Lee who headed over the corner that followed which was taken by Garvan.
But, in the 52nd minute, Wolves plight worsened as Town doubled their advantage. Pablo Counago ran in from the right and beat Darren Ward and Hennessey before prodding the ball into the empty net.
It was almost three when Clarke skipped past two challenges and passed to Counago who fired wide when he only had Hennessey to beat.
Keogh came on for Kightly for the final quarter-of-an-hour but it was Ipswich that next went closest to scoring when Bothroyd headed out a Lee centre only as far as Legwinski who fired onto the roof of the net as Hennessey tracked back.
As the game approached its conclusion, Kevin Foley pumped a free-kick into the Ipswich area. The ball was cleared to home substitute Danny Haynes who ran the length of the pitch before being denied by a last ditch tackle from Jarvis who had raced back to cover.
But Haynes had the last laugh in stoppage time when he picked up a loose ball on the edge of the Wolves area and drilled a shot past Hennessey to complete a miserable afternoon for the Molineux men.
Town: Alexander, Wilnis, De Vos (capt), Garvan, Legwinski, Counago (Bruce 89), Lee (Haynes 82), Walters, Wright, Harding, Clarke (Roberts 70).
Unused subs: Supple, Trotter.
Booking: Lee (32 - dangerous challenge)
Wolves: Hennessey, Foley, N. Collins, Olofinjana, D. Ward, Craddock (Little 45), Kightly (Keogh 74), Henry, Eastwood (Jarvis 45), Bothroyd, S. Ward.
Unused subs: Potter, Stack.
Referee: K.A. Woolmer.
Attendance: 23,808.
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