Wolves off bottom with 95th-minute winner at Everton


Rayan Ait-Nouri scores
Rayan Ait-Nouri’s goal was his first in the Premier League this season

Rayan Ait-Nouri scored a dramatic stoppage-time winner as Wolves came from behind to win at fellow strugglers Everton and move off the bottom of the Premier League.

In manager Julen Lopetegui’s first league match in charge of the club, Wolves had fallen behind early when Yerry Mina glanced Dwight McNeil’s near-post corner into the net.

However, they levelled midway through the first period from a well-worked corner routine with Daniel Podence calmly sliding the ball past home goalkeeper Jordan Pickford from Joao Moutinho’s lobbed pass to the back post.

It was no more than the visitors deserved in an entertaining encounter but one in which the attacking shortcomings of both sides came into focus.

Idrissa Gueye’s incisive pass to Anthony Gordon should have allowed the hosts to regain the lead but the Everton winger was superbly denied by Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa, while Neal Maupay twice failed to capitalise from promising positions.

It was far from from one-way traffic though, Wolves forward Diego Costa was unable to get enough power on a diving header to beat Pickford, who also repelled Hugo Bueno’s placed effort after the break.

And while Everton saw Ben Godfrey’s late effort hacked to safety by Ruben Neves, Wolves went up the other end in the 95th minute to claim a valuable victory, with Ait-Nouri turning the ball past Pickford from Adama Traore’s cross.

The win took Wolves up to 18th, a place below Everton who have now lost their past four games.

More to follow.

Player of the match

Aït-NouriRayan Aït-Nouri

Everton

  1. Squad number3Player namePatterson

  2. Squad number13Player nameMina

  3. Squad number19Player nameMykolenko

  4. Squad number2Player nameTarkowski

  5. Squad number1Player namePickford

  6. Squad number17Player nameIwobi

  7. Squad number8Player nameOnana

  8. Squad number27Player nameGueye

  9. Squad number11Player nameGray

  10. Squad number22Player nameGodfrey

  11. Squad number7Player nameMcNeil

  12. Squad number10Player nameGordon

  13. Squad number47Player nameCannon

  14. Squad number20Player nameMaupay

  15. Squad number16Player nameDoucouré

Wolverhampton Wanderers

  1. Squad number3Player nameAït-Nouri

  2. Squad number10Player nameDaniel Podence

  3. Squad number37Player nameTraoré

  4. Squad number8Player nameRúben Neves

  5. Squad number28Player nameJoão Moutinho

  6. Squad number1Player nameJosé Sá

  7. Squad number27Player nameMatheus Nunes

  8. Squad number59Player nameHodge

  9. Squad number22Player nameNélson Semedo

  10. Squad number24Player nameToti

  11. Squad number64Player nameBueno

  12. Squad number23Player nameKilman

  13. Squad number29Player nameDiego Costa

  14. Squad number11Player nameHwang Hee-chan

  15. Squad number17Player nameGonçalo Guedes

  16. Squad number4Player nameCollins

Line-ups

Everton

Formation 4-3-3

  • 1Pickford
  • 3PattersonBooked at 38mins
  • 13MinaSubstituted forGodfreyat 76′minutes
  • 2Tarkowski
  • 19Mykolenko
  • 17Iwobi
  • 8Onana
  • 27GueyeSubstituted forDoucouréat 83′minutes
  • 10Gordon
  • 20MaupaySubstituted forCannonat 83′minutes
  • 7McNeilSubstituted forGrayat 56′minutes

Substitutes

  • 4Holgate
  • 11Gray
  • 15Begovic
  • 16Doucouré
  • 22Godfrey
  • 23Coleman
  • 26Davies
  • 29Vinagre
  • 47Cannon

Wolves

Formation 4-3-3

  • 1
  • 22Nélson Semedo
  • 4Collins
  • 23KilmanBooked at 64mins
  • 64BuenoSubstituted forAït-Nouriat 59′minutesBooked at 90mins
  • 59HodgeSubstituted forNunesat 59′minutes
  • 8NevesBooked at 79mins
  • 28João MoutinhoSubstituted forGomesat 78′minutesBooked at 81mins
  • 11Hwang Hee-chanSubstituted forTraoréat 60′minutes
  • 29Diego CostaBooked at 90mins
  • 10PodenceBooked at 61minsSubstituted forGonçalo Guedesat 73′minutes

Substitutes

  • 3Aït-Nouri
  • 9Jiménez
  • 13Sarkic
  • 17Gonçalo Guedes
  • 24Gomes
  • 25Ronan
  • 27Nunes
  • 37Traoré
  • 81Lembikisa

Referee:
Craig Pawson

Attendance:
39,252

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