Gianluca Scamaca and Jarrod Bowen scored their first goals in this English Premier League to take West Ham out of the relegation zone at the cost of Wolverhampton in a 2-0 win on Saturday.
Scamaca, who signed Sassuolo for $36 million in the summer, eventually opened his account in the league with a fine, dipping strike from the edge of the field in the 29th minute.
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Bowen, who was selected for England’s last Nations League squad but failed to take the field, won with a fine individual strike in the 54th.
Wolves manager Bruno Lage handed a 30-minute cameo to Diego Costa as a substitute, but the 33-year-old former Chelsea striker, who was signed on a free transfer last month, was forced to slip into the bottom three of the division’s lowest-scoring team. Couldn’t stop.
Wolves captain Ruben Neves was forced to leave in the unfamiliar role of central defender in his 150th appearance for the club, with Nathan Collins suspended for his wild challenge on Manchester City’s Jack Grealish last month.
The Portugal midfielder’s task for the evening was not easy when he made an early booking for a body check on Bowen.
Bowen ran on Wolves Regard consistently with the type of performance that could have earned him a place so far. World Cup Squad.
The visitors actually had eight Portuguese players in their starting lineup – a record for a nationality other than an English one in a league team – and one of them, Daniel Podens, tried a long-range shot, which was tipped by Lukasz Fabianski. Gave it
West Ham should have gone ahead when Bowen’s shot was dropped by goalkeeper Jose Sa at the feet of Scamacca, but the Italian striker widened the rebound.
However, Schamaka made no mistake in the 29th when his pass found Bowen on the right.
When the England winger eventually ran out of room in the field, the ball went back to Scamaka, who flicked the ball before hitting Sa’s brilliant shot from the edge of the field.
Wolves tried to counterattack and Podens had one more attempt left before Adama Traore’s volley was bounced wide.
West Ham doubled their lead in the 54th when Thilo Kehrer’s drive got in the way of Bowen. He still had a lot to do but he danced around Ryan Alt-Nuri before Sa burying a low shot inside the post.
Costa entered the league three minutes later for the first time since May 2017 and for the first time anywhere since January.
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