Here\u2019s Jacob Steinberg\u2019s report from the London Stadium.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/p>\n My colleague Paul Bellsham reminds me that Gary Gillespie isn\u2019t the only centre-half to score a hat-trick. \u201cNever mind Gillespie. Alvin Martin scored a hat-trick in \u201886!\u201d<\/p>\n And with that, I sign off. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Jarrod Bowen speaks: \u201dYou focus on yourself, but that\u2019s all we have to do. in a situation that we don\u2019t want to be in, but ultimately we\u2019re in a situation we have to face up to it. Tonight, we\u2019re not. Like I said, there\u2019s gonna be different moments in the game, but they\u2019ll be difficult, but, you know, we\u2019re sat in now with a four-nil win at home. That first goal, it really settled with the team. It just turned things around.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Here\u2019s Jacob Steinberg\u2019s report from the London Stadium.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The West Ham goalscorers speak<\/p>\n Taty Castellanos: \u201cYeah, very very happy? I\u2019m very happy for the work.\u201d<\/p>\n Mavropanos: \u201cWe just have to keep in, in the same, in the same metality, keep, keep working hard, and, yeah, we, we will make it. I think from what we saw from the guys was unbelievable today. If we keep working like this, we will get more results like that.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Tim Singleton \u2013 or should that be Tim Zingleton? \u2013 dials in: \u201cShould Spurs go down, can we say they only got what they de Zerbed?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Look at that table. It\u2019s oh so tight.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Full-time: West Ham 4-0 Wolves<\/p>\n Massive, massive win for West Ham, Taty Castellanos and Konstantinos Mavropanos getting two goals each. The challenge is thrown down to Tottenham, who play at Sunderland on Sunday, Forest, who play at Villa on Sunday, and Leeds, who play at Manchester United on Monday.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90+3 min: Hugo Bueno is up for Wolves in some late, ultimately frivolous attacking. A painful night for Rob Edwards\u2019 team.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min: That 25-day wait has done Wolves few favours. West Ham look energised by that comeback in vain in the FA Cup. Just four minutes remaining.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 88 min: Gary Naylor bangs a familiar drum: \u201cTottenham fans need not worry. Surely it\u2019s Wolves, Burnley and Manchester City for the drop?\u201d<\/p>\n Ian Sargeant is in: \u201cIf Bowen deflects a Wolves shot onto the near post (as the TV cameras look at it) he will have hit all four at the ground in five days.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 87 min: West Ham fans asking Mavropanos to shoot. They want him to get a hat-trick. Not many central defenders get those. Gary Gillespie is one I recall.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 86 min: More subs: Mateus Fernandes on for Soungoutou Magassa for the Hammers. For Wolves, Tom Edozie for Joao Gomes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 84 min: Hammers fans peeling for the exit but those who do miss Traore almost scoring from another piece of Bowen brilliance. That was a very Adama Traore miss.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Goal! West Ham 4-0 Wolves (Mavropanos, 83)<\/p>\n The corner comes in and Mavropanos scores another header! Jarrod Bowen with another assist?<\/p>\n Konstantinos Mavropanos scores a fourth for West Ham! Photograph: Matthew Childs\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.46 EDT<\/p>\n 82 min: Castellanos departs, for another day. Callum Wilson replaces him.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 80 min: Wolves playing out time with little hope, their season eddying away to guaranteed disappointment; surely relegation is now higher than a 99.93% chance.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 79 min: Castellanos smells a hat-trick and swings and misses at a Walker-Peters cross.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 78 min: Hammers changes: Adama Traore and Freddie Potts coming on, as Summerville and Adama Traore come on, the latter to applause from the away fans.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 75 min: Kari Tulinius gets in touch: \u201cMy immediate reaction to Pablo\u2019s silly little pass to Taty Castellanos was \u2018teams which are going down don\u2019t do that sort of thing\u2019. After the goal, I realized that teams which do that sort of thing don\u2019t go down. As I was coming to that conclusion, they scored a third. The Hammers are going to be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n Time then, to worry if you are Spurs, Forest or Leeds.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 73 min: Wolves fans singing \u201cstand up if you\u2019re going down\u201d. They\u2019ve been a credit to the Premier League<\/a>, and their club all season, which has been grim viewing. Let\u2019s wish them well but the gig is up, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 71 min: Nuno is getting one over on his former team, when his current team started so badly. Though Diouf swings a boot and almost sets the game back alight before Hermansen comes to the rescue.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 69 min: There was just one minute and 39 second between those goal. And here come the \u201cWest Ham are massive\u201d songs. Friday night East End knees up it is. See ya dahn the Bow Bells?<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Goal! West Ham 3-0 Wolves (Castellanos, 68)<\/p>\n And another! The January signing again\u2026Bowen winning the ball from the kick-off, and Castellanos\u2019 deflected shot has West Ham in dreamland.<\/p>\n Taty Castellanos! Photograph: Jordan Pettitt\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.32 EDT<\/p>\n 67 min: Summerville served as the winner of the ball and then his dummy run allowed Pablo and Castellanos to link.<\/p>\n AS IT STANDS<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Goal! West Ham 2-0 Wolves (Castellanos, 66)<\/p>\n The striker scores a huge goal, playing a one-two with Pablo, and steering his shot beyond Sa. That is massive\u2026.Hammers into safety.<\/p>\n Taty Castellanos scores for West Ham! Photograph: Jordan Pettitt\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.28 EDT<\/p>\n 64 min: Are West Ham going to try and sit on this? Seems a highly dangerous game to play. Summerville shoots, and Santiago Bueno bears the brunt. Diouf, an unlikely candidate, has a dig from distance. It swings wide.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 62 min: Wolves corner, Hugo Bueno taking and Krejci nods down and wide. Wolves are, after all, playing for the chance to keep hopes alive.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 61 minutes: Two Wolves subs: Mane on for Gomes, Rodrigo Gomes on for Bellegarde.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 59 min: Another free-kick chance for Wolves, and this one will be Angel Gomes\u2019 last chance before he\u2019s subbed off. It\u2019s well hit but not on target, drifting by.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 58 min: Summerville, who has looked a bit a rusty after his month out, swings in a cross that\u2019s far too close to Jose Sa.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 56 min: Wolves have dropped off from that promising start, a symptom of a season where they cannot put 90 minutes together.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 54 min: Now Bowen hits the post, just as he did twice against Leeds. Two big chances for the Hammers to kill this off.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 53 min: End to end, breathless stuff. Angel Gomes\u2019s free-kick comes off the bar, and suddenly Wolves are wide open. Summerville decides to go for glory, with Sa off his line. He misses the target.<\/p>\n Crysencio Summerville has to hit the target! Photograph: Ben Stansall\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.14 EDT<\/p>\n 52 min: Castellanos is now booked, and his foul on Santiago Bueno looked like it happened in the edge of the box. No, says VAR.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 50 min: Mosquera, booked already, is in the thick of it. He\u2019s another on 10 yellows, and a two-match suspension.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 48 min: Bowen forces a corner, and the cavalry pile forward, before Sa, with trouble, palms the ball away. West Ham looking to kill this off, having made that sedated start.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 46 min: Back underway, with Pablo kissing the ball ahead of the kick-off. What luck will that bring West Ham? Bowen strides forward but this time his radar is off. That goal was his seventh assist of the season, behind only Cherki and Fernandes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Spurs fans look away now\u2026though read this from showbiz friend Max Rushden.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Zach Neeley gets in touch: \u201cNot to kick them while they\u2019re down (who am I kidding, that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m doing) if Spurs are relegated, does that make St. Totteringham\u2019s Day the first match of the season? Or do Arsenal have the greater challenge of finishing in a higher position than Spurs in the Championship?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Half-time: West Ham 1-0 Wolves<\/p>\n Mavropanos\u2019 header has put the Hammers where they want to be, a place above the drop zone, and Spurs in the bottom three.<\/p>\n AS IT STANDS:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min: It\u2019s close to two Hammers goals. The strike pairing, Castellanos and Pablo link, and Sa has to make a fine, low save. Just a minute more in this half.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 43 min: It\u2019s been grim viewing, but West Ham have dug out a lead. Bowen, their talisman, was playing like his laces were undone, but then found his touch. Mavropanos, Mavro – Bobby Mavro? \u2013 is a fine header of the ball.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Goal! West Ham 1-0 Wolves (Mavropanos, 42)<\/p>\n A disputed corner, Gomes concedes, Bowen takes, the ball comes out, and is arrowed into the box, and Mavropanos nods home. What a delivery, what a header. What a lifeline!<\/p>\n Konstantinos Mavropanos powers home the header and West Ham lead! Photograph: John Walton\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.48 EDT<\/p>\n 40 min: Some nerves among the Hammers fans. Even more nerves when Walker-Peters cannot find anyone to pass to, and sends it backwards.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 38 min: This is not a great advert so far for the return of the Premier League<\/a>. Long throws and free-kicks, you know the drill by now. From such a moment, Mavropanos nods down and Bowen \u2013 again \u2013 can\u2019t get enough on the ball to beat Sa.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.40 EDT<\/p>\n 36 min: Krejci\u2019s long throw, flicked on and Armstrong might have done better. Though the spin on the ball was unhelpful, very difficult for the striker to get any purchase on it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 34 min: Soucek\u2019s chip hangs in the air, begging to be attack. Nobody attacks it. The Hammers just aren\u2019t at it. This is such a huge game. And yet.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 32 min: Fernandes fouls Bellegarde, who goes down heavily. Too heavily? Jarred Gillett waves a yellow in Fernandes\u2019 direction. West Ham get Angel Gomes\u2019 kick clear, only for Diouf to lose possession and Armstrong to fire over. It\u2019s all bit too loose.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 30 min: Castellanos heads the ball back towards goal, and over. That looks a bit lucky for Tchatchoua, he did catch Summerville though hardly with much force.<\/p>\n Taty Castellanos should do better there for West Ham. Photograph: John Walton\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.40 EDT<\/p>\n 29 min: Soucek drops deep to try and sweep up. There\u2019s a huge gap between midfield and attack in the West Ham team. Diouf makes a long run forward, and tries to release Summerville. Did Tchatchoua foul him in the box? VAR clears it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 27 min: Tchatchoua hoiks the ball out of play. Yes, the quality is still lacking.<\/p>\n