On-loan teenager Sean Neave came off the bench to score his first two goals for Wolves and seal a comeback 2-1 victory against Bristol City that sent the visitors second in the Championship.

Scott Twine had given the Robins the lead with a stunning first-half free-kick that curled into the top corner, although City created little else in attack for most of the match.

Wolves, by contrast, enjoyed most of the possession and ended the game with more than three times as many shots as City - but could not find a way through until the 82nd minute.

Home goalkeeper Brad Collins made a series of saves while Cameron Pring's perfectly-timed tackle denied Rodrigo Gomes, before Neave equalised with an easy tap-in after Adam Armstrong's effort was palmed into his path.

The 19-year-old then doubled his tally seven minutes later, heading in following a Kieran Trippier free-kick, to stretch Wolves' unbeaten run to five games.

The defeat is 15th-placed Bristol City's third in a row at home and continues their inconsistent campaign.

Wolves went into the game with three wins in their previous four Championship matches but struggled to turn all of their pressure into many clear chances.

Armstrong was played in early for the visitors' best chance of the half but his low shot was easily saved by Collins, while Rafiki Said fired straight into the Robins' keeper's arms and a Fer Lopez effort went way off target.

Bristol City did not have a touch in the Wolves box until the 28th minute when Rio Cardines' cross whipped across the goal and beat Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa, only for Lorent Tolaj to head over the bar.

Then when Twine was brought down by Jean-Ricner Bellegarde a few minutes later on the edge of the box, he directed the set-piece perfectly for his fifth goal of the campaign and 18th direct free-kick goal since December 2020.

Wolves continued to pin City back during the second half and really should have found the back of the net much sooner than they did.

Ladislav Krejci played a lovely through-ball from his own half to Armstrong in the box, which Collins kept out at the near post, and Said's follow-up hit the side netting.

Gomes was gifted a one-on-one because of a misplaced pass by the hosts but Pring raced back to make an excellent last-gasp tackle in the box.

Collins then palmed away a Krejci header that was going in at the near post as Wolves racked up the efforts on goal.

But it was Neave who made the breakthrough in the closing stages when Trippier crossed the ball into the middle of the box and while Armstrong's effort was saved, it fell straight to the young striker, who had a simple finish.

With the momentum with them, Wolves continued to press on and a Trippier free-kick was nodded on by Krejci into the path of Neave, who got his second of the night to secure all three points for the visitors.

Middlesbrough's defeat at Wrexham, who Wolves face on Saturday, means Cesar Peixoto's team are only one point off top spot.

Bristol City manager Michael Skubala told BBC Radio Bristol:

"We're really down and disappointed because when you get to 80 minutes you want to get something out of the game - you want to win the game and if not, get a draw.

"The sucker punch is we've got nothing out of the game against a good team but we put ourselves into situations at times which we didn't need to.

"We started to be too passive, we dropped too deep. I thought the tactical plan worked really well - we knew what they would be about, we didn't want them to come through the middle so they were hitting diagonals on us but we were dealing with that.

"I'm not happy with the goals, they're disappointing me tonight, because we haven't done that this season - we looked like we got outjumped at certain moments, they looked a little bit not like us."

Wolves boss Cesar Peixoto told BBC WM:

"Before we conceded the goal, we created a lot of chances to cross and too many people inside of the box took a lot of time to finish the play, to shoot to the target - sometimes when we crossed we didn't attack the ball in the right moment.

"We talked with the players at half-time, they understood what we had to do in the second half.

"They played what the game needed - more directly, attacked the space, more reaction when we lost the ball, more intensity to press the opposition team.

"We pushed them, we believed to the end, the players who came from the bench [were] very important. We put two strikers [on] to make the team more offensive and we scored one goal and we kept believing and we scored the second goal - I think we deserved the win."