Little did anyone truly expect Wednesday to lose another two players and finish with 10 men.

First Akpo Sodje and Marcus Tudgay ... now Etienne Esajas and Richard Hinds, with the season only 10 days old.

At this rate they will run out of players in a few weeks' time.

It all beggars belief.

"I don't know what it is. I don't know what we've done to deserve this," said boss Brian Laws.

No-one is blaming a 4-1 defeat just on injuries. The game was already lost when Hinds was carried off with a bad ankle injury, and the Owls had already paid dearly for shortcomings in the game's basics.

But they were not helped at all by the loss of Esajas at half-time, with the winger taken off as a precautionary measure with a hamstring niggle.

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It was also a personal blow to the Dutchman, who had been so keen to get a league start and scored another crisply-struck goal to follow his man-of-the-match show against Rotherham.

Like Sodje and Tudgay before him, Esajas found that excellent play was no defence against the Wednesday injury jinx.

His withdrawal upset the balance of the side; Laws's plan of using a sort of 4-1-4-1 formation had caused Wolves problems, with a left-footed wide man, Esajas, on the right wing, and a right-footed one, Jermaine Johnson on the left.

They would run at the home defence and cut inside on their stronger foot - and just such a manoeuvre gave the Owls their deserved early lead, with Esajas driving a shot into the bottom corner after a crossfield ball from Tommy Spurr and an assist from Deon Burton.

Considering the players left at his disposal before the game, I felt that Laws picked the right team, with the two wide men, plus Burton as the lone central striker, and the use of three midfield players - Steve Watson was in front of the back four.

After half-time, Esajas's pace and drive could not be replaced. Wednesday were doing okay at the mid-point; they had passed the ball well overall and stretched Wolves and should have had more goals.

Esajas blasted a chance wide from a Johnson cross in only the third minute, and Burton twice drove opportunities tamely at the keeper.

So it has to be said, firstly, that the Owls' finishing was not quite sharp enough.

Their defending on the equaliser also could have been better.

Full-back Kevin Foley, faced with Mark Beevers out on the right, easily made himself some space for an accurate cross and Chris Iwelumo got in behind Richard Wood to put away a free header.

The biggest howler led to an important breakthrough for Wolves, their second goal just after half-time.

At a Wednesday corner, Johnson had been given a defensive job, back towards the halfway line, obviously so his pace could guard against a counter-attack.