{"id":385726,"date":"2026-04-10T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/385726\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:20:07","slug":"west-ham-4-0-wolves-apr-10-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/385726\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham 4-0 Wolves (Apr 10, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"28c48827-3a74-9af3-21b2-f324cdb1fc01\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=371\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham<\/a>\u00a0climbed out of the <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> relegation zone for the first time since December with a 4-0 win over <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"7b64f56c-a775-945c-6eb8-686461c3e898\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=380\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> at the London Stadium that dropped Tottenham into the bottom three.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/252933\/valentin-castellanos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taty Castellanos<\/a> struck twice inside two minutes midway through the second half to add to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/242705\/konstantinos-mavropanos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Konstantinos Mavropanos<\/a>&#8216; first-half header before the defender volleyed in again late on.<\/p>\n<p>Nuno Espirito Santo&#8217;s team shrugged off early nervousness to blow away the league&#8217;s bottom side and push their rivals from north London closer towards the unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers had looked set for the drop after losing at home to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ad9ef79b-ca27-077e-8a6f-335e0d220b27\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=393\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> in January. Defeat to their relegation rivals left them winless in 10 and seven points adrift of safety, but five victories in the 11 games since, together with Spurs&#8217; apparent free fall, have put a radically different complexion on the picture at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Against Wolves, they were wasteful in the first half. Mavropanos&#8217;s opener, headed in from Jarrod Bowen&#8217;s cross three minutes before the break, lifted the atmosphere at a crucial moment and set the second-half stage for Castellanos to double his tally for the club and inch West Ham towards survival.<\/p>\n<p>It meant Wolves&#8217; brief revival after three games unbeaten was ended. Relegation for them could now be confirmed as early as next week away to Leeds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taty Castellanos celebrates scoring his second goal in West Ham's win ooer Wolves.\" class=\"\" data-mptype=\"image\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\"\/>Taty Castellanos celebrates scoring his second goal in West Ham&#8217;s win ooer Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Ben STANSALL \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"8e39cb1e-67ce-f6d3-093d-eae763cd9a6d\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/284792\/crysencio-summerville\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crysencio Summerville<\/a> had wasted a golden chance to give West Ham the lead after 14 minutes, staying onside to receive Mateus Fernandes&#8217; pass before leaning back and scooping his finish high over the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>Good work from Pablo to dance his way into the box set up Bowen with a chance he ought to have buried. Instead the shot was tame, bounced into the ground via a mistimed swing of the leg and into the arms of <a data-player-guid=\"cda1e2fa-6e2d-7f74-d684-e5b97531f3ef\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/181278\/jose-sa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jos\u00e9 S\u00e1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham&#8217;s wastefulness in front goal and carelessness on the ball were doing little to calm a restless atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"aa54dbdc-fd0f-313d-adec-ea292790cb30\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/359796\/el-hadji-malick-diouf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Hadji Malick Diouf<\/a> drew howls of exasperation from home fans when he needlessly gave the ball away in his own half, letting in <a data-player-guid=\"51b06225-e0e4-f4d2-a74b-f582d033246d\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/194116\/adam-armstrong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Armstrong<\/a> for a chance that whistled just over.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong then had Wolves&#8217; best chance of the half with a flicked header that was well-held by <a data-player-guid=\"f43e17f4-d533-175e-2d9b-da0fbf8249d3\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/281564\/mads-hermansen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mads Hermansen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"e665b34e-908b-e0cd-2802-76809245d0c4\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/151714\/ladislav-krejci\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ladislav Krejc\u00ed<\/a> blocked from Bowen following Mavropanos&#8217;s knock-down. Wolves had now been warned amply of West Ham&#8217;s growing threat but they were breached before the interval.<\/p>\n<p>Their defence failed to clear properly from a corner, the ball was sent back out wide to Bowen who crossed for Mavropanos to rise and plant his header into the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Only a fine low save from Sa kept Pablo from sending a buoyant West Ham in two up at the break.<\/p>\n<p>A wild two-minute spell at the start of the second half saw both sides hit a post, Wolves from Angel Gomes&#8217; free kick, then Bowen drove inside from the right and smacked the upright.<\/p>\n<p>Castellanos settled home fans&#8217; nerves with a finish into the corner that owed to a wonderfully inventive back-heel by Pablo to set up the chance.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves gave the ball away almost immediately from the kick-off to Bowen, and he fed Castellanos to take a touch and roll in his second and West Ham&#8217;s third via a post.<\/p>\n<p>Mavropanos volleyed in a late fourth for West Ham, whose momentum showed no sign of abating.<\/p>\n<p>PA contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham\u00a0climbed out of the Premier League relegation zone for the first time since December with a 4-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-385726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}