Régis Le Bris looked concerned. “We can feel the danger,” said Sunderland’s manager last week as he suggested that a Wolves renaissance could be just round the corner.

If so, that old gold revival suffered a damaging delay on an an afternoon when Le Bris’s fears proved groundless as Sunderland registered their fourth Premier League win in eight games since promotion. It leaves them with 14 points and surely set fair for survival.

The horizon seems considerably cloudier for a Wolves team still without a win and stuck to the bottom of the table on just two points. Small wonder their head coach, Vítor Pereira, spent much of the match shaking his head as Dan Ballard’s marking reduced his key striker, Jørgen Strand Larsen, to anonymity and Enzo Le Fée’s intelligence destabilised a visiting ensemble that has evidently forgotten how to test a goalkeeper, let alone secure a victory.

Although a superb, tightly angled, finish from Wilson Isidor soon saw the Wolves goalkeeper Sam Johnstone picking the ball out of the back of his net, the Sunderland striker was left smiling ruefully as an offside flag denied him a goal.

No matter; Isidor quickly had cause to congratulate Nordi...