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Wolves were emphatically defeated on their own patch on Saturday afternoon as Frank Lampard’s Chelsea came to town and ran riot at Molineux.

Tammy Abraham’s hat-trick contributed to a 5-2 victory which pushed Wolves closer to the base of the Premier League table.

Nuno Santo and his men have been impressive in the Europa League, winning all six of their matches on their way to qualifying for the group stages but so far they've faltered domestically.

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Their woes in the league have gone from bad to worse after this latest showing and it was the performance from their captain that emphasised just how poor they really were.

Conor Coady is usually Santo’s reliable ball-playing defender at the heart of defence. He’s the captain, leader and often the root of the attack. He averaged a passing success rate of 84.3% last season, per WhoScored.

But on Saturday he was just not at the races. The 26-year-old failed to register an interception or a block in the match and only managed two tackles as his poor season in the Premier League rumbled on.

Coady is averaging a rating of just 6.17 from their opening five matches, which only goalkeeper Rui Patricio has worse than of all the players to play four or more games.

His numbers are down from last season - when he averaged 0.8 interceptions and 0.7 blocks per game - and the fact he failed to make a single interception or block against Chelsea is particularly poor.

Being the ball-playing defender in the heart of the three-man defence, Coady is usually spot on with his passing, but he managed a dire long ball accuracy rate of 42.8%, meaning it is likely that he consistently invited the pressure back on his side as he was barely able to find another player in a gold and black shirt.

The performance from the captain just wasn’t good enough and certainly not at the level you’d require to succeed in the Premier League.

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