West Ham 4-0 Wolves: Second-half burst powers Irons out of the bottom three
Konstantinos Mavropanos and Valentin 'Taty' Castellanos scored second-half braces as West Ham United climbed out of the bottom three and put 20th-place Wolves on the precipice of relegation after a 4-0 affair at the London Stadium on Friday. Mavropanos' first-half header gave the Irons an advantage at the break of a pretty even game, but Castellanos scored twice in three second-half minutes before Mavropanos completed his brace in the 83rd minute. WATCH — West Ham v Wolves full match replay West Ham climb into 17th place with 32 points, level on points with 16th-place Nottingham Forest and one back of Leeds United.
More importantly, they move Spurs into the bottom three. Wolves remain on 17 points and are 15 back of safety with just six matches and 18 possible points left on their fixture list. Nuno Espirito Santo gets it done, pains three former clubs It has to be the strangest of times for West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo, whose team moves into 17th place while pushing one former club (Wolves, 20th place) to the brink of relegation, another into the bottom three (18th-place Spurs), and turns its attention a club that fired him earlier this year in 16th-place Nottingham Forest.
If you're club is not constrained to some sort of mandatory-attacking ethos or under delusions of grandeur, you can do far worse than the solid, veteran, likable Portuguese. And the way the Irons have attacked in recent weeks, supporters might be dreaming of what Nuno can do with a clean slate in the summer. As for Wolves, Rob Edwards' men have had to find and ride a hot streak for pretty much the entirety of his tenure at the club and it seems they've simply run out of gas.
They'll be favored to come right back up next season should they retain the boss who led a much smaller club, Luton Town, to promotion a few years ago. What’s next? West Ham wait 10 days for their next game, April 20 at Crystal Palace, while Wolves go to Leeds on Saturday, April 18.
West Ham vs Wolves live updates, score: 4-0 Konstantinos Mavropanos 42', 83', Valentin Castellanos 66', 68' Konstantinos Mavropanos goal — West Ham 1-0 Wolves Mavropanos cleans up a mess and is an unlikely brace-bagger for the Irons! Back-to-back goals for Irons — West Ham 3-0 Wolves Valentin 'Taty' Castellanos has been knocking on the door the past few games and now he's freely going in and out of the room. First, young Wolves star Mateus Mane has a giveaway and Castellanos works a 1-2 with Pablo Felipe to make it 2-0.
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