No Christmas cheer at Molineuxpublished at 12:35 GMT
Wolves 0-1 Nottingham Forest
Nick Mashiter
BBC Sport football news reporter
It felt like the game when hope left Molineux.
At full-time, Andre lay flat on the pitch while Tolu Arokodare stood with his hands on his hips and there were barely any fans left in the stadium.
Coming into the match, there was a belief Wolves had improved in their two games under Rob Edwards but victory against Nottingham Forest was imperative to give them hope of survival.
Yet, despite plenty of effort, there was little quality again and they fell to a 12th defeat in 14 games and a seventh straight Premier League loss.
Wolves are cut adrift and a huge 12 points from Leeds in 17th with little prospect of catching those above and talk of survival is fanciful in the extreme.
Such was the malaise at Molineux even Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White – a usual target for Wolves fans – did not get his regular level of abuse on his return to his former club.
Forest, on paper, was Wolves’ best chance of winning this month with Manchester United twice, Arsenal, Brentford and Liverpool to come before the end of the year.
Derby had six points at this stage on their way to finishing with a Premier League low of 11 points in 2007-08 – and so Wolves, with just two, remain on course to set a new unwanted record.
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