Wolves 1-0 West Ham: Jorgen Strand Larsen goal sinks Hammers to ease Wolves' relegation fears | OneFootball

A disappointing night for the Hammers on their return to Premier league action

Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Jorgen Strand Larsen scored the only goal of the game as they beat visitors West Ham United 1-0 on Tuesday to make it two wins in a row and put some more daylight between them and the Premier League relegation places.

The win leaves Wolves in 17th spot on 29 points, 12 ahead of Ipswich Town in 18th and 19th-placed Leicester City, who are both in action on Wednesday against Bournemouth and Manchester City respectively. West Ham are 16th on 34 points.

The visitors almost took an early lead when Jarrod Bowen made his way down the right before putting in a low cross in the 13th minute, but the ball went just behind striker Evan Ferguson and he couldn't get a clean shot away.

Strand Larsen finally broke the deadlock in the 21st minute, picking up the ball on edge of the box and drilling a deflected effort past Areola for his 10th goal of the season, and six minutes later Marshall Munetsi should have made it two, but his shot came crashing back off the crossbar.

Hammers manager Graham Potter sent on striker Niclas Fullkrug after the break, and though he gave a much-needed focal point to the visitors' attack, the game descended into a bad-tempered affair punctuated by pushing, shoving and arguing for much of the second half.

The Hammers went on to dominate but they failed to create good goal-scoring chances, and the closest they came to an equaliser were a header off the crossbar by Fullkrug and a late shot that Tomas Soucek fired just wide.