West Ham 3-0 Wolves: Kudus nabs 2 goals, Bowen seals a comfortable home win

You score, you take a seat, you bask in your brilliance. The Mohammed Kudus celebration.

Tricky to copy on the playground, what with the lack of advertising boards to sit on, but you can bet the school kids in the East End of London will find a way. Kudus is quickly becoming the new favourite of West Ham’s fans, a forward full of speed and silkiness.

Twice we saw Lucas Paqueta play piercing passes in behind Wolves. Twice we saw Kudus pick them up. Twice we saw him bury them before making a beeline for the away end.

As has become his trademark, Kudus celebrated by sitting in front of the opposition supporters, taking a well-deserved breather. There is no shortage of cheekiness to go with his clinical nature.

Paqueta joined the 23-year-old Ghanian on both occasions, with their bromance lifting West Ham to seventh in the Premier League ahead of Manchester United’s showdown with Liverpool.

Watching Kudus, it is hard not to think that Erik ten Hag signed the wrong Ajax winger. Kudus is now on nine goals in all competitions for West Ham this season; Antony is on zero.

Paqueta went on to register a third assist, setting up Jarrod Bowen to complete this commanding win. David Moyes was thrilled. Gary O’Neil less so.

Wolves lost this fixture 2-0 last season. Diego Costa chugged from a can of Red Bull on the bench as Ruben Neves was used in central defence and Pedro Neto tried to play on with an ankle injury, only to end up missing the next five months. The following morning, Bruno Lage was sacked.

There is an identifiable game plan under O’Neil nowadays, using ball-carriers such as Matheus Cunha to be much more direct in their attacking. They had scored in every Premier League game this season except for their opening-day 1-0 defeat by