Wolves 0
Crystal Palace 3 (Morrison 24, Scannell 49, Scowcroft 66)
The introduction of new signing Sylvan Ebanks-Blake failed to halt Wolves' dismal League run as in-form Crystal Palace were comfortable 3-0 winners at a gloomy Molineux.
While Ebanks-Blake made his debut, Karl Henry returned from suspension with Andy Keogh and Matt Jarvis dropping down to the bench.
Wolves kicked-off attacking the hotel end of Molineux but the opening minutes were devoid of goalmouth action.
The first corner of the game went Wolves' way in the 11th minute but Darren Ward was unable to divert his header in the right direction following Michael Gray's flag kick.
Within two minutes, Palace won their first corner after Wayne Hennessey had pulled off a tremendous save to deny Jamie Scowcroft.
Ben Watson lofted a free-kick into the Wolves area and Scowcroft powered a header that looked destined for the top corner until Hennessey athletically turned the ball over the bar.
A dangerous low cross from Sean Scannell was met by Clinton Morrison whose first time shot hit a defender and bounced to safety.
At the other end Henry was crowded out as he tried to work a shooting position after taking a centre from Darron Gibson.
In the 23rd minute, Ebanks-Blake just failed to get his head to a cross from Henry. Stephen Ward was stood just behind the new man and he couldn't have seen the ball until the last second but his header was still just inches wide of the post.
After going so close, Wolves fell behind just a minute later. Watson's free-kick wasn't cleared and the unmarked Morrison smashed an unstoppable volley into the net from 12-yards out.
Palace keeper Julian Speroni struggled to claim the ball after a low shot from Jay Bothroyd, who had connected with Stephen Ward's pull back, before Gibson limped off to be replaced by Jarvis.
Matt Lawrence had to head over his own crossbar after Stephen Ward had nodded Jarvis' cross back into the six-yard box. Jarvis took the corner conceded and former Palace defender Darren Ward saw his header comfortably saved on the line by Speroni.
In stoppage time, Mark Hudson prodded the ball narrowly wide after running on to an in swinging cross from Watson.
Half-Time: Wolves 0 Palace 1
A shot from Henry was cleared by Clint Hill before two Jarvis corners had the Palace defence at full stretch.
But disaster struck in the 49th minute as the visitors went two up with Scannell converting from close range after Morrison had knocked back John Halls' centre.
Mick McCarthy made two changes following the goal with Keogh and Freddy Eastwood replacing Ebanks-Blake and Stephen Ward.
A minute into their introduction the duo combined but Keogh was crowded out as he tried to profit on Eastwood's cross.
Keogh was a fraction wide with a header after a Jarvis centre and Speroni then touched away a low shot from Eastwood.
But Scowcroft's thumping 30-yard volley in the 66th minute was the signal for a significant number of Wolves fans to start heading for the exit gates as Palace's victory was all but confirmed.
Indeed it could have been four moments later had Scowcroft not lifted the ball over the bar from six-yards out after he had met a Lewis Grabban cross.
A measure of the way things were going for Wolves came when Hudson cleared Bothroyd's shot off the line with the ball hitting Henry and rebounding wide of the post.
Watson was narrowly wide with a 25-yard shot and Speroni beat out an Eastwood effort from a similar distance at the other end.
Ten minutes from time Bothroyd lifted a close range shot over the bar after Keogh had beaten the offside trap and cut in from the right before squaring the ball.
Wolves: Hennessey, Foley, Gray, Potter, D. Ward (capt), Collins, Henry (capt), Gibson (Jarvis 42), Ebanks-Blake (Keogh 53), Bothroyd, S. Ward (Eastwood 53).
Unused subs: Edwards, Ikeme.
Crystal Palace: Speroni, Scowcroft, Hudson (capt), Lawrence, Hill (Hills 66), Halls, Watson, Derry (Moses 84), Soares, Scannell (Grabban 68), Morrison.
Unused subs: Freedman, Fletcher.
Referee: H. Webb.
Attendance: 22,650.
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