West Ham 3 - 0 Wolves

Lucas Paqueta produced a hat-trick of assists as West Ham moved as much as seventh within the Premier League desk with a 3-0 win over Wolves, who’ve now misplaced their final 4 on the street.

Paqueta twice despatched Mohammed Kudus away to attain within the first half, with the Ghanian including to his strike within the Europa League win over Freiburg on the London Stadium three days in the past.

Kudus is a rising star in east London however whereas his pace, management and shot energy have been on present for each objectives, Wolves’ defending left a lot to be desired. They’d been compelled to usher in substitute goalkeeper Daniel Bentley and switched to a again 4 however have been far too open.

Paqueta discovered Jarrod Bowen on the stroke of half-time, however whereas that shot got here again off the put up, the pair linked up brilliantly on 74 minutes to place the sport to mattress, with Mario Lemina as soon as once more punished for giving up possession cheaply within the centre of the park.

Earlier than that third West Ham aim Wolves had been urgent for a route again into the match and Pablo Sarabia noticed a close-range end chalked off by a protracted VAR examine for offside. It isn’t the primary time this season Gary O’Neil’s facet have been undone by the officers at Stockley Park however this was an accurate, if extraordinarily tight, name.

Nonetheless, he would certainly have been left lower than impressed by two challenges from Vladimir Coufal on Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, which noticed the West Ham right-back collide with Bellegarde’s head. He was solely proven a yellow card for the second conflict. Within the Sky Sports activities studio, pundit Daniel Sturridge described the primary as “WWE stuff.”

Wolves stay in a comparatively snug place within the desk, thirteenth, 10 factors above the relegation zone. However their defensive points and lack of innovative – this was the primary time they hadn’t scored for the reason that opening weekend – will give Gary O’Neil a lot to ponder forward of their Christmas Eve conflict with Chelsea at Molineux.