West Ham v Wolves — live commentary
London Stadium, 7.45pm. Two clubs relegated from the Premier League last season, meeting in the Championship for the first time.
West Ham are still looking for a first win: two points from three matches, a draw at Burnley, a home defeat to Charlton and a 1-1 at Watford. Wolves are unbeaten on seven points, with nine goals scored — four of them against Stoke in the last round.
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FTscore4-2
90+5'fulltimeFull-time, chaotic game ends 4-2 to the hosts
90+1'comment4 added on
90+1'card🟨 Free kick — Wolves, Valentín Castellanos with a foul to give away a dangerous free kick on the left hand side
87'card🟨 Strange yellow card for Jordan James, looked like he was the one fouled
84'commentShot — Wolves, Hugo Bueno lays off Fer López on the edge of the box, his tame shot is straight at Mads Hermansen
80'sub🔄 Mateus Mane makes way for Tawanda Chirewa
79'commentShot — West Ham, Konstantinos Mavropanos rises above everyone and heads wide
79'sub🔄 Manor Solomon comes off for summer signing Edvin Austbo
78'commentCorner — West Ham, won by Joël Veltman
78'commentWest Ham doing well to manage and slow the game down here
73'commentAlmost in again for West Ham, Manor Solomon's dangerous ball in is almost turned into his own net by André, José Sá just about kept it out, didn't know much about it
70'sub🔄 Mohamadou Kanté and Keiber Lamadrid on for Pablo and Mukasa
69'goalJackson Tchatchoua puts a dangerous ball in and I think the last touch actually comes off Konstantinos Mavropanos. He has scored for both teams in the matter of minutes!
69'goal⚽Instant impact from Jordan James!, 4-2
69'score4-2
66'sub🔄 Summer signing Jordan James and Tommy Doyle on for Raúl Jiménez and Marshall Munetsi
64'goalThe corner is swung in and Konstantinos Mavropanos's first header comes off the bar, the rebound comes back to him and he slams home on the volley
65'score4-1
64'goal⚽ Its 4, Wolves couldn't clear the corner and Konstantinos Mavropanos slams home
64'score4-1
63'commentCorner — West Ham, Good hold up play by Pablo who gets it to Bowen. He plays a lovely one, two with Valentín Castellanos. The latter has a shot on goal, which José Sá parries behind
61'commentWest Ham gave away a 2 goal lead late on on the opening day against Burnley. They play Wolves tonight who, along with Burnley, got relegated with them down to the Championship. West ham will hope history doesn't repeat itself
60'sub🔄 Rodrigo Gomes comes off for Adam Armstrong
57'commentCorner — Wolves, Mateus Mane with a shot that deflects behind
57'commentCorner — Wolves, won by Jackson Tchatchoua
56'sub🔄 Piroe and Kyle Walker-Peters make way for Valentín Castellanos and Joël Veltman
53'goalMukasa finds a pocket in and around the edge of the box, Bowen finds him and his shot takes a deflection off of Nasser Djiga and loops over José Sá very fortunately
54'commentJosé Sá clownshow terrible performance from the keeper so far
54'score3-1
53'goal⚽ Its another great goal for Mukasa, although took a lucky deflection, 3-1!
53'score3-1
50'commentCorner — Wolves
49'commentShot — Wolves, Good pick out by Mateus Mane to find Fer López from a tight angle in the box, he hits the side netting, should do better
48'commentChance for Wolves, Mateus Mane whips in a dangerous ball, which bounces fortunately to Mads Hermansen
46'commentCorner — West Ham, won by Jarrod Bowen, bright start for West Ham
HTkickoffKick-off for the second ha;f
HTscore2-1
45+3'halftimeHalf-time, a chaotic 45 ends 2-1 to the Hammers
45+2'score2-1
45+1'comment2 added on
45'card🟨 Yellow card For Mukasa
44'goalThe ball fortunately falls to Marshall Munetsi, and he weaves inside and outside and whips the shot into the bottom corner outside the box, Konstantinos Mavropanos has to do better, Game on
44'goal⚽ Wolves have one back, huge goal scored by Marshall Munetsi
43'score2-1
42'goal⚽ 2-0 West Ham, Jarrod Bowen scores from the spot, important cushion for the hammers with half time approaching
41'score2-0
40'commentCan't see José Sá saving this Wolves better hope Jarrod Bowen misses
40'penalty⚪ Penalty — For West Ham won by Joel Piroe, clumsy from André, may have been outside the box but the ref gave a penalty
39'commentWolves need to get to halftime here, the crowd are up and the West Ham players are feeding off of it.
36'commentJosé Sá looks clueless at times, flapping about like a wet fish .
36'commentBig chance for West Ham, a corner is sent in, the second ball falls to Maximilian Kilman against his former club who shoots and it is excellently cleared off the line by Wolves. West Ham keep it alive and Wolves just about get some respite. Creaking at the back here Wolves
35'score1-0
35'commentCorner — West Ham, Jarrod Bowen wins a corner after a mistake at the back from Wolves
33'goalDivine Mukasa picks it up well outside the box after a cross was cleared, and he fires a rocket into the near top corner off the bar
34'score1-0
33'goal⚽ WHAT A STRIKE FROM DIVINE MUKASA, UNBELIEVABLE
33'score1-0
32'commentCorner — Wolves, Mateus Mane picks the ball up outside the box, his shot deflects off of Mukasa just wide
30'commentShot — Wolves, Off the bar again! Jackson Tchatchoua whips one in, Kyle Walker-Peters misses it and Mateus Mane takes a great first touch at the far post. He shoots, his shot deflects up off of Kyle Walker-Peters and hits the bar, agonising for Wolves, fortunate for West Ham
30'commentKyle Walker-Peters should have been carded for dirty play on Mateus Mane
28'commentShot — Wolves, Mateus Mane drills it in, its behind Raúl Jiménez who has to improvise. His volley bounces off the turf and onto the top of the bar
27'commentCorner — Wolves, Wolves turn the ball over again and Wolves attack with pace with Fer López who plays it through for Rodrigo Gomes. His first touch gets away from him so Konstantinos Mavropanos can cover across and hit it behind
25'commentShot — Wolves, finally some good play, good play by Wolves on the right ending in Jackson Tchatchoua cutting it back to André who gets his shot horribly wrong
24'commentYes very scrappy at the moment
24'commentNeither side able to hold onto the ball at the minute, ball constantly turning over
16'commentCorner — West Ham, won by Manor Solomon
9'commentCorner — Wolves, Mateus Mane does well to get it to Fer López who finds the return to Mane, he looks to shoot from a tight angle but Kyle Walker-Peters makes the block
8'commentOffside — West Ham, Jarrod Bowen drives forward and plays it forward for Piroe who was offside, good challenge from the Wolves defender to prevent a shot on goal in any case
5'commentAnother promising situation for Wolves after they win the ball high, they have a 3 on 2 but the cut back is behind Raúl Jiménez who tries to lay the ball off but it doesn't come off
5'commentFer López Wolves top scorer with 2
5'commentShot — Wolves, Fer López drives into the box with no one closing him down, but his shot is tame and is an easy save for Mads Hermansen
19:50commentWest Ham will be looking to get some goals tonight which their joint top scorer Matthew Pollock who plays fro Watford
3'commentDominant start from Wolves, having all the possession
1'kickoffKick-off at the London Stadium
19:45commentNuno managing against the side he led to Championship promotion a few years ago
19:44commentI predicted 2-1 West Ham
19:44commentModel predicts Wolves win
19:44commentGood evening all looking forward to this
19:40commentAgainst no side in his league career has West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen been directly involved in more goals than he has against Wolves (9 – 6 goals, 3 assists).
19:35commentAfter winning 3-1 at Preston, Wolves could win both of their first two away games of a league season for the first time since their last Championship campaign in 2017-18.
19:33commentWest Ham lost their first home league game of the Championship season 1-2 to Charlton, but haven’t lost their first two at home in a league campaign outside of the top-flight since 1956-57.
19:24commentThis is the first meeting between West Ham and Wolves in the Championship since Wolves won 4-2 in January 2005.
19:19commentWest Ham have won each of their last six home league games against Wolves by an aggregate score of 16-1.
19:18commentWolves have started the Championship season well, currently sitting in 2nd place with 7 points from a possible 9. They drew 2-2 with Blackburn on the opening day, only getting a point due to a late Jimenez penalty. They then saw off Preston and Stoke 3-1 and 4-1 respectively.
19:14commentWest Ham have had a very poor start to the Championship season, especially as the favourite to win the title. They threw away a 2 goal lead against Burnley on the opening day late on, then lost to london rivals Charlton at home and then drew to Watford. Nuno Espirito Santo is under pressure, and it doesn't get any easier as Wolves are in hot goalscoring form.
19:08commentWOLVES TEAM NEWS: Cesar Peixoto names an unchanged XI following the 4-1 win over Stoke City. Ladislav Krejčí makes the bench after David Møller Wolfe departed on loan to Hamburg
19:04commentWolves Bench: Adam Armstrong, Santiago Bueno, Tawanda Chirewa, Tommy Doyle, Jordan James, Ladislav Krejčí, Pedro Lima, Boubacar Traore, Joao Virginia
19:03commentWolves Starting XI
18:54commentWEST HAM TEAM NEWS: 4 changes made by under-pressure Nuno Espirito Santo following the 1-1 draw with Watford, Oliver Scarles, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Pablo and Joel Piroe come in as Joël Veltman, Airidas Golambeckis, Mohamadou Kanté and Valentín Castellanos drop to the bench. Norwegian winger Edvin Austbo starts on the bench after completing a transfer from Norwegian champions Viking on Sunday as Maximilian Kilman starts against his former club where he made 151 for the Old Gold. Record championship signing Arne Engels starts as does Joel Piroe
18:49commentWest Ham Bench: Joshua Ajala, Edvin Austbo, Valentín Castellanos, Airidas Golambeckis, Finaly Herrick, Mohamadou Kanté, Keiber Lamadrid, E. Mayers, Joël Veltman
18:47commentWest Ham Starting XI
18:44score0-0
What the model says
Probabilities come from goals_logreg_v1_cal — the 1X2 model, which is a different thing from the Poisson goals model named next — refreshed each morning. The Poisson goals model has produced no output for 2026/27, so there is no scoreline grid this season.
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Auto-generated from live commentary. 92 entries between kickoff and full-time.
1′ kickoff Kick-off at the London Stadium
3′ comment Dominant start from Wolves, having all the possession
5′ comment Shot — Wolves, Fer López drives into the box with no one closing him down, but his shot is tame and is an easy save for Mads Hermansen
5′ comment Fer López Wolves top scorer with 2
5′ comment Another promising situation for Wolves after they win the ball high, they have a 3 on 2 but the cut back is behind Raúl Jiménez who tries to lay the ball off but it doesn’t come off
8′ comment Offside — West Ham, Jarrod Bowen drives forward and plays it forward for Piroe who was offside, good challenge from the Wolves defender to prevent a shot on goal in any case
9′ comment Corner — Wolves, Mateus Mane does well to get it to Fer López who finds the return to Mane, he looks to shoot from a tight angle but Kyle Walker-Peters makes the block
16′ comment Corner — West Ham, won by Manor Solomon
24′ comment Neither side able to hold onto the ball at the minute, ball constantly turning over
24′ comment Yes very scrappy at the moment
25′ comment Shot — Wolves, finally some good play, good play by Wolves on the right ending in Jackson Tchatchoua cutting it back to André who gets his shot horribly wrong
27′ comment Corner — Wolves, Wolves turn the ball over again and Wolves attack with pace with Fer López who plays it through for Rodrigo Gomes. His first touch gets away from him so Konstantinos Mavropanos can cover across and hit it behind
28′ comment Shot — Wolves, Mateus Mane drills it in, its behind Raúl Jiménez who has to improvise. His volley bounces off the turf and onto the top of the bar
30′ comment Kyle Walker-Peters should have been carded for dirty play on Mateus Mane
30′ comment Shot — Wolves, Off the bar again! Jackson Tchatchoua whips one in, Kyle Walker-Peters misses it and Mateus Mane takes a great first touch at the far post. He shoots, his shot deflects up off of Kyle Walker-Peters and hits the bar, agonising for Wolves, fortunate for West Ham
32′ comment Corner — Wolves, Mateus Mane picks the ball up outside the box, his shot deflects off of Mukasa just wide
33′ score 1-0
33′ goal ⚽ WHAT A STRIKE FROM DIVINE MUKASA, UNBELIEVABLE
33′ goal Divine Mukasa picks it up well outside the box after a cross was cleared, and he fires a rocket into the near top corner off the bar
34′ score 1-0
35′ comment Corner — West Ham, Jarrod Bowen wins a corner after a mistake at the back from Wolves
35′ score 1-0
36′ comment Big chance for West Ham, a corner is sent in, the second ball falls to Maximilian Kilman against his former club who shoots and it is excellently cleared off the line by Wolves. West Ham keep it alive and Wolves just about get some respite. Creaking at the back here Wolves
36′ comment José Sá looks clueless at times, flapping about like a wet fish .
39′ comment Wolves need to get to halftime here, the crowd are up and the West Ham players are feeding off of it.
40′ penalty ⚪ Penalty — For West Ham won by Joel Piroe, clumsy from André, may have been outside the box but the ref gave a penalty
40′ comment Can’t see José Sá saving this Wolves better hope Jarrod Bowen misses
41′ score 2-0
42′ goal ⚽ 2-0 West Ham, Jarrod Bowen scores from the spot, important cushion for the hammers with half time approaching
43′ score 2-1
44′ goal ⚽ Wolves have one back, huge goal scored by Marshall Munetsi
44′ goal The ball fortunately falls to Marshall Munetsi, and he weaves inside and outside and whips the shot into the bottom corner outside the box, Konstantinos Mavropanos has to do better, Game on
45′ card 🟨 Yellow card For Mukasa
HT score 2-1
HT kickoff Kick-off for the second ha;f
45+1′ comment 2 added on
45+2′ score 2-1
45+3′ halftime Half-time, a chaotic 45 ends 2-1 to the Hammers
46′ comment Corner — West Ham, won by Jarrod Bowen, bright start for West Ham
48′ comment Chance for Wolves, Mateus Mane whips in a dangerous ball, which bounces fortunately to Mads Hermansen
49′ comment Shot — Wolves, Good pick out by Mateus Mane to find Fer López from a tight angle in the box, he hits the side netting, should do better
50′ comment Corner — Wolves
53′ score 3-1
53′ goal ⚽ Its another great goal for Mukasa, although took a lucky deflection, 3-1!
53′ goal Mukasa finds a pocket in and around the edge of the box, Bowen finds him and his shot takes a deflection off of Nasser Djiga and loops over José Sá very fortunately
54′ score 3-1
54′ comment José Sá clownshow terrible performance from the keeper so far
56′ sub 🔄 Piroe and Kyle Walker-Peters make way for Valentín Castellanos and Joël Veltman
57′ comment Corner — Wolves, won by Jackson Tchatchoua
57′ comment Corner — Wolves, Mateus Mane with a shot that deflects behind
60′ sub 🔄 Rodrigo Gomes comes off for Adam Armstrong
61′ comment West Ham gave away a 2 goal lead late on on the opening day against Burnley. They play Wolves tonight who, along with Burnley, got relegated with them down to the Championship. West ham will hope history doesn’t repeat itself
63′ comment Corner — West Ham, Good hold up play by Pablo who gets it to Bowen. He plays a lovely one, two with Valentín Castellanos. The latter has a shot on goal, which José Sá parries behind
64′ score 4-1
64′ goal ⚽ Its 4, Wolves couldn’t clear the corner and Konstantinos Mavropanos slams home
64′ goal The corner is swung in and Konstantinos Mavropanos’s first header comes off the bar, the rebound comes back to him and he slams home on the volley
65′ score 4-1
66′ sub 🔄 Summer signing Jordan James and Tommy Doyle on for Raúl Jiménez and Marshall Munetsi
69′ score 4-2
69′ goal ⚽Instant impact from Jordan James!, 4-2
69′ goal Jackson Tchatchoua puts a dangerous ball in and I think the last touch actually comes off Konstantinos Mavropanos. He has scored for both teams in the matter of minutes!
70′ sub 🔄 Mohamadou Kanté and Keiber Lamadrid on for Pablo and Mukasa
73′ comment Almost in again for West Ham, Manor Solomon’s dangerous ball in is almost turned into his own net by André, José Sá just about kept it out, didn’t know much about it
78′ comment West Ham doing well to manage and slow the game down here
78′ comment Corner — West Ham, won by Joël Veltman
79′ sub 🔄 Manor Solomon comes off for summer signing Edvin Austbo
79′ comment Shot — West Ham, Konstantinos Mavropanos rises above everyone and heads wide
80′ sub 🔄 Mateus Mane makes way for Tawanda Chirewa
84′ comment Shot — Wolves, Hugo Bueno lays off Fer López on the edge of the box, his tame shot is straight at Mads Hermansen
87′ card 🟨 Strange yellow card for Jordan James, looked like he was the one fouled
90+1′ card 🟨 Free kick — Wolves, Valentín Castellanos with a foul to give away a dangerous free kick on the left hand side
90+1′ comment 4 added on
90+5′ fulltime Full-time, chaotic game ends 4-2 to the hosts
score 0-0
comment West Ham Starting XI
comment West Ham Bench: Joshua Ajala, Edvin Austbo, Valentín Castellanos, Airidas Golambeckis, Finaly Herrick, Mohamadou Kanté, Keiber Lamadrid, E. Mayers, Joël Veltman
comment WEST HAM TEAM NEWS: 4 changes made by under-pressure Nuno Espirito Santo following the 1-1 draw with Watford, Oliver Scarles, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Pablo and Joel Piroe come in as Joël Veltman, Airidas Golambeckis, Mohamadou Kanté and Valentín Castellanos drop to the bench. Norwegian winger Edvin Austbo starts on the bench after completing a transfer from Norwegian champions Viking on Sunday as Maximilian Kilman starts against his former club where he made 151 for the Old Gold. Record championship signing Arne Engels starts as does Joel Piroe
comment Wolves Starting XI
comment Wolves Bench: Adam Armstrong, Santiago Bueno, Tawanda Chirewa, Tommy Doyle, Jordan James, Ladislav Krejčí, Pedro Lima, Boubacar Traore, Joao Virginia
comment WOLVES TEAM NEWS: Cesar Peixoto names an unchanged XI following the 4-1 win over Stoke City. Ladislav Krejčí makes the bench after David Møller Wolfe departed on loan to Hamburg
comment West Ham have had a very poor start to the Championship season, especially as the favourite to win the title. They threw away a 2 goal lead against Burnley on the opening day late on, then lost to london rivals Charlton at home and then drew to Watford. Nuno Espirito Santo is under pressure, and it doesn’t get any easier as Wolves are in hot goalscoring form.
comment Wolves have started the Championship season well, currently sitting in 2nd place with 7 points from a possible 9. They drew 2-2 with Blackburn on the opening day, only getting a point due to a late Jimenez penalty. They then saw off Preston and Stoke 3-1 and 4-1 respectively.
comment West Ham have won each of their last six home league games against Wolves by an aggregate score of 16-1.
comment This is the first meeting between West Ham and Wolves in the Championship since Wolves won 4-2 in January 2005.
comment West Ham lost their first home league game of the Championship season 1-2 to Charlton, but haven’t lost their first two at home in a league campaign outside of the top-flight since 1956-57.
comment After winning 3-1 at Preston, Wolves could win both of their first two away games of a league season for the first time since their last Championship campaign in 2017-18.
comment Against no side in his league career has West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen been directly involved in more goals than he has against Wolves (9 – 6 goals, 3 assists).
comment Good evening all looking forward to this
comment Model predicts Wolves win
comment I predicted 2-1 West Ham
comment Nuno managing against the side he led to Championship promotion a few years ago
comment West Ham will be looking to get some goals tonight which their joint top scorer Matthew Pollock who plays fro Watford
