We should have known it.
Having allowed Wolves a heady afternoon at Stamford Bridge, on Matheus Cunha's biggest day so far, the sporting gods were at their most cussed last weekend.
Injuries removed first Hwang Hee-chan and then Cunha from the game against Brentford, drawing the teeth from the Wolves attack. Perhaps it demonstrated Cunha's importance to Wolves even more clearly than his hat-trick against Chelsea did, although there was more to the defeat than just that.
Wolves have shown us their best side so regularly this season, especially since Christmas, that we can briefly forget just how much strife most people agreed they were in only six months ago.
They have played to a higher level than most pundits suspected they could, more often than many fans imagined they would.
In such a competitive league, though, only the elite sides can expect to win games when they don't find their highest gears.
In midfield, Wolves are capable of upsetting exalted opponents, but only when they are note-perfect. Until Saturday, they had a blank injury list - a real rarity - and most of their players in form at the same time.
"The group have done an unbelievable job maintaining a high level generally," said Gary O'Neil, taking a positive view without hiding any truths. "I'm absolutely gutted we fell below it and the players will be as well, so we'll use the elation of last week and what we managed to produce compared to how we feel now to make sure we perform better than we did."
On a more technical level, he noted Brentford slowed the game to a pace that suited them to douse Wolves' fire. "There are going to be afternoons in the Premier League where the opposition make it tough, make it slow and we need to find a way to be better at it."
That is perhaps unlikely to be the pattern this weekend, as Tottenham on their own patch will surely set a more aggressive rhythm. Wolves are more effective if the opposition come out swinging, and are happy to counter-punch.
But, while Jean-Ricner Bellegarde and Nathan Fraser - both players of real promise - would benefit from more opportunities, for the moment Cunha and Hwang give Wolves a sharper edge, and news of their fitness will be eagerly awaited.
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