Wolves 1-2 Fulham

Fulham returned to winning ways with an excellent 2-1 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux on Tuesday night.

Just 58 seconds had been played when Ryan Sessegnon opened the scoring, with a trademark Sess finish after running onto Andreas Pereira’s through ball.

Wolves than began to exert some control on proceedings, equalising through Joao Gomes’ unstoppable effort.

But the Whites started the second half as we did the first, needing just one minute to get on the scoresheet, this time through Rodrigo Muniz’s gorgeous chip, and that was the way things stayed.

Marco Silva shuffled his pack for the trip to Wolves, switching to a three at the back system and making five changes to the starting XI, with Issa Diop, Jorge Cuenca, Sessegnon, Andreas and Muniz all brought in from the off.

Ever since his return to the Club, every fan had been eagerly awaiting the first Sessegnon goal of his second spell, and we had to wait less than a minute for that wholesome moment.

Joachim Andersen fed the ball forward to Muniz who held the ball up well before finding Andreas. He poked a perfect ball through to Sessegnon – operating at wing-back – who coolly strode into the box before showing the composure we’ve seen countless times in front of goal to stroke beyond Jose Sa and inside the far post.

The home side responded well, and after Matheus Cunha’s free-kick had deflected over, Matt Doherty volleyed an effort a yard wide from the subsequent corner.

Another set-piece on 14 minutes led to Wolves’ next chance, as Cunha’s free-kick was cleared only as far as Andre on the edge of the box, but his volley was always sailing wide.

Their best opportunity arose moments later when a Jean Ricner-Bellegarde cross was flicked onto an unmarked Gomes at the far post, but he blazed wildly over.

Gomes made no such mistake next time, though. Again it was a move down the left that started the move, with another Ricner-Bellegarde delivery diverted into the midfielder’s path by Nelson Semedo, and he emphatically planted his finish beyond Bernd Leno.

It was now Fulham’s time to launch a response. Andreas was the provider once more, chipping over to Adama who saw his low drive on the angle repelled by Sa.

Buoyed by that, we put together a lovely move shortly after, that culminated in Sessegnon cutting back to Muniz, who saw his first time effort well blocked by Santiago Bueno.

A couple of long rangers from Wolves followed, but Leno was equal to Cunha’s free-kick, and Ricner-Bellegarde’s speculator was always rising.

The next Cunha attempt was also continually rising, but this one was threatening to nestle under the crossbar until the intervention of some Leno fingertips.

At the other end, our wing-backs combined to fashion a half chance, but Sessegnon’s header from a Timothy Castagne cross was claimed by Sa.

Adama had been lively on his return to Molineux, and almost ended the half with an assist when he countered before playing Andreas, who fired over from an acute angle.

There was still time at the end of a lively first half for some bad news, with Saša Lukić picking up his 10^th booking of the season, which rules him out of our next two Premier League games, against Brighton and Spurs.

Having needed 58 seconds at the start of the first half to score, the 63 required at the beginning of the second seemed tardy by comparison! It was another gorgeous goal, with Adama bending a beautiful pass beyond Bueno to pick out the run of Muniz, who executed a deft chip over Sa.

Ricner-Bellegarde twice tried to restore parity – his free-kick was repelled by the wall, but his follow-up was much more dangerous, with Leno securing the ball having initially parried.

Raúl Jiménez was given a warm reception when he was introduced, and he almost wrapped things up with seven minutes to play when he sprung the offside trap to get on the end of a pass from fellow substitute Antonee Robinson, but his powerful strike was too close to Sa.

Our number seven was involved again soon after, starting a counter by swinging the ball out to Alex Iwobi, who immediately swept it onto Andreas, but the Brazil international’s shot was charged down at the expense of a corner, from which Raúl headed over.

The former Wolves man had been busy since coming on, with another chance falling his way two minutes into seven added on, but he dragged just wide through a host of gold bodies.

Thankfully the missed opportunities mattered little, as – other than a late Rayan Ait-Nouri shot that was superbly blocked by Castagne – Wolves didn’t threaten, as Fulham held out to secure our first ever Premier League win at Molineux.