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Jarrod Bowen scored twice as West Ham kick-started their Premier League season with a thumping 4-0 victory over Wolves.<\/p>\nJarrod Bowen scored twice as West Ham kick-started their Premier League season with a thumping 4-0 victory over Wolves.<\/p>\n
Tomas Soucek and Sebastien Haller were also on target as the Hammers, beaten in their first two matches, finally got off the mark to give their self-isolating manager David Moyes a lift.<\/p>\n
West Ham have begun the season in even more disarray than usual following positive coronavirus tests for Moyes and two of his players.<\/p>\n
A lack of recruitment in the transfer market this summer is another sore point but it was Moyes\u2019 two January signings, Bowen and Soucek, who did the damage before record-buy Haller supplied the late fourth.<\/p>\n
Assistant Alan Irvine again took over on the touchline with Moyes relaying instructions by telephone to coach Stuart Pearce from in front of his television.<\/p>\n
Moyes, who said in his program notes that he has has no symptoms, will have been cheered by Bowen\u2019s 17th-minute opener.<\/p>\n
Pablo Fornals caught Wolves napping with a quickly-taken free-kick on the halfway line which sent Bowen scampering away down the right wing.<\/p>\n
The former Hull winger still had plenty to do, but he cut inside Romain Saiss onto his left foot and curled a delightful shot past Rui Patricio and inside the far post.<\/p>\n
With Wolves strangely subdued West Ham should have been at least three up by the interval with the chances they created.<\/p>\n
Patricio got down well to prevent Michail Antonio doubling the lead, and then twice superbly denied Soucek from close range before Fornals missed a gift-wrapped chance.<\/p>\n
Patricio pushed Antonio\u2019s fierce low shot out to the feet of Fornals but the Spaniard crashed his shot high over an unguarded net.<\/p>\n
They were almost made to pay a minute before half-time when Ruben Neves took aim but Lukasz Fabianski made a diving save.<\/p>\n
Wolves began the second half with more attacking intent, with debutant Nelson Semedo a lively presence at wing-back.<\/p>\n
But they were undone on the break again as Antonio raced down the left before squaring the ball to Fornals.<\/p>\n
His low shot came back off the foot of the far post and Bowen was on hand to tap in the rebound.<\/p>\n
West Ham had previously not scored a single goal against Wolves since Nuno Espirito Santo\u2019s side returned to the Premier League.<\/p>\n
By the 66th minute they had three, Soucek getting in on the act with a glancing header at the near post from Aaron Cresswell\u2019s corner.<\/p>\n
Substitute Haller completed the scoring in stoppage time when he headed in Arthur Masuaku\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n