Ivan Cavaleiro has scored a goal for Wolverhampton Wanderers! Assist by Hélder Costa.
It's some lovely invention from Costa and brilliant work from Cavaleiro to keep himself onside as the pair raced away there. Bournemouth might feel hard done by to walk away with a two-goal loss, but Wolves have delivered the goods when it matters today and that adds a touch of gloss for the hosts.
CAVALEIRO SEALS THE DEAL! 2-0! Wolves win three on the bounce for the first time in Premier League history as they embark on a blistering counter, with Costa releasing the substitute into open space, allowing him to go one-on-one with Begovic and roll the ball past him into the bottom-left corner.
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Costa draws a foul from Lerma inside the Bournemouth half and Wolves will be in absolutely no rush to cough up possession from this set-piece.
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King! A quickfire shot is blocked in the box and that could be one of the last chances for the visitors. Four added minutes of injury time to come at Molineux.
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Ivan Cavaleiro enters the game and replaces R. Jiménez.
Cavaleiro is the last Wolves substitute to be introduced, replacing Jimenez.
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Cook! A lovely Bournemouth counter is finished with the defender clipping a low cross in towards the far post from the right, only for none of his teammates to latch onto it.
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Bournemouth do get themselves out of danger however and force their way back to midfield before ceding possession once more.
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Lerma wins a free-kick inside his own half but Wolves are quick to put Bournemouth on the defensive once again. The hosts have done a good job at keeping their shape in midfield, preventing swift attacks against them.
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L. Mousset enters the game and replaces J. Stanislas.
Mousset replaces Stanislas for the visitors as the game enters the last 10 minutes of regulation time.
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Lerma now concedes a corner, but again, Bournemouth hold strong in the face of pressure from the hosts and clear their lines. Time is running out to find an equaliser however.
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Moutinho turns a free-kick into the box for Wolves following a Lerma handball, only for Bony to drift offside and give away a free-kick of his own.
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R. Saïss enters the game and replaces M. Gibbs-White.
Wolves make another switch, introducing Saiss to replace Gibbs-White.
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Patricio and Coady come together in the air both trying to clear the aftermath of a Bournemouth cross and the latter once again is left looking a bit creaky as he gets up.
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The Cherries prove themselves up to the task of dealing with the set-piece though and Fraser deals with it neatly.
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Wolves get a corner after Gibbs-White makes a lovely little move down the right flank and spears it to Doherty, who sees his return cross pushed out by Begovic.
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Hélder Costa gets yellow.
Costa comes in heavily on Lerma and is shown a yellow card as a result.
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Gibbs-White almost has a golden opportunity to go for goal after he sends two defenders the wrong way on the edge of the box – but he slips on the rain-sodden turf and Ake is able to nip in and clear.
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Cook is brought down on the lip of the Wolves box and the Cherries have a fantastic set-piece chance 20 yards out on the right. Play is paused for Coady to get medical attention after a blow to the face however.
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C. Wilson enters the game and replaces J. Ibe.
Bournemouth make their second change of the game now, bringing on England man Wilson to replace Ibe.
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Costa is cleaned out off the ball now in pursuit, but no foul is forthcoming from the referee, to much general anger in the stands around Molineux.
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Surman now drives a low effort from 25 yards out towards the bottom-right corner and can only watch as it skids away, wide of the post.
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Following a swift counter of their own, the hosts then win a corner after Neves sees his strike from the right deflected wide to the left. The set-piece causes chaos in the box, before the referee gives Bournemouth the free-kick for a foul on Surman.
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The rain has turned to sleet now at Molineux, with Wolves handed a stroke of fortune after Bournemouth see their attack interrupted by the referee getting in the way.
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Bournemouth have started this half on the front foot and have a chance to turn a set-piece into the box from 25 yards out following a foul on King. The ball is pushed wide to the right however and Wolves are left untroubled.
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Hélder Costa enters the game and replaces Diogo Jota.
Costa has replaced the injured Jota at the break for Wolves.
We're back underway in the Black Country with Wolves out in front. Can the hosts hold onto their lead or can the Cherries fight their way back into this one?
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HALF-TIME: WOLVES 1-0 BOURNEMOUTH
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Lerma curls a speculative shot from 25 yards out on the right in towards Patricio and, in the high winds and rain, the keeper does bobble it before claiming.
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There will be three added minutes of injury time in the first half. Jota didn't look good after that challenge though and has headed straight down the tunnel for Wolves.
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How has Cook got away with that? Jota breaks away, meeting a lovely long ball to race into the box, only for the defender to bodycheck him from the side. Yellow cards – and even reds – have been given for such tackles before, but the referee doesn't even give a free-kick, to the disbelief of the partisan home crowd.
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Now Rico fouls Doherty as the pair tussle in the right corner. The free-kick only goes as far as Surman however, who heads clear for Bournemouth and sparks a blistering counter.
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J. Lerma gets yellow.
Jota races away on a swift move himself now, only for Lerma, as last man, to bring him down. It's a cynical foul and the referee hands him a yellow card for his troubles.
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Another fine cross from Jimenez is swept in following a short corner, but Ake is on the end of it to nudge clear for the visitors.
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Diego Rico enters the game and replaces T. Mings.
It is the end of the line for Mings now though as he hobbles from the field to be replaced by Rico.
Jimenez whips the resulting free-kick in with a lovely cross and King gets there first to head it away for a corner.
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S. Cook gets yellow.
Cook makes a challenge so late that it's practically in 2019 on Jota out to the left of the Cherries box and gets the first yellow card of the game.
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Play has resumed, and Mings looks set to continue. Bournemouth aren't exactly inundated with defensive options right now, so will likely have to protect their left-back for the rest of the game.
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Another brisk Wolves counter attack sees Jimenez attempt to chip the shot from the edge of the box after being faced with three defenders, only to put it quite wide. Mings went down in the build-up for Bournemouth too and does not look in a good way.
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The Cherries win another free-kick, this time in the attacking half after Boly brings down King. The visitors can't create a set-piece chance out of it though, playing it short instead and almost immediately being put onto the back foot.
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Mings now wins a free-kick inside his own half following a Wolves counter after he wrestles control of the ball back from Jimenez and is subsequently fouled.
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Neves avoids a booking following a tackle on Daniels that creates a genuine, small splash on the touchline as the players go down.
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The weather really is making this a rather open, if sloppy, game. Both sides look absolutely frozen out there, as the rain intensifies, and are countering it by playing as fast and expansive as they can.
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Ibe now chases a ball into the Wolves box that Patricio is unexpectedly unhurried to deal with, making for a relatively nervy moment before the keeper clears.
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Bournemouth look to haul themselves straight back into the fight and Ibe floats a lovely cross into the box that just skitters beyond Stanislas and Daniels as they try to latch onto it from six yards out.
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R. Jiménez has scored a goal for Wolverhampton Wanderers! Assist by Diogo Jota.
There's going to be a royal telling-off for Daniels by Eddie Howe at half-time. That was a catastrophic ball, even in conditions as dourly miserable as these.
JIMENEZ FOR WOLVES! 1-0! What a terrible back pass by Daniels for Bournemouth. The winger whips it back to nobody, allowing Jota to latch onto it and weave into the left of the box. He slots a low pass across to the right, finding his fellow striker at the far post where he coolly slots it behind Begovic. A great start for the hosts.
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The visitors do release Daniels down the left now though, only for the winger to fluff his attempted cross into the box and put it out for a goal-kick with a wild, miscued effort.
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Cook and Mings play it out from their own box, but stern Wolves defence sees them unable to get out of their own half, marooned just shy of the centre circle.
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Both teams have settled into a little bit of a rhythm now, heading down the wings where they can in a rather elastic shifting pattern of attack and defence between the pair. Wolves are shading it for invention so far.
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The set-piece is soft from Bournemouth and Wolves counter smartly, taking themselves up to halfway through Jonny.
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The Cherries come straight back on the counter and it takes some swift keeping from Patricio to block King's low shot on the right of the box. Corner to the visitors.
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Conditions are dismal in the Midlands today, with driving rain and arctic wind battering both sides. The hosts are on the front foot in the early exchanges though, after Daniels and Mings are forced into defensive mistakes, though Bournemouth get away with it after Jota butchers his attempted volley.
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We are underway in this 2018-19 Premier League clash between Wolves and Bournemouth!
Hello and welcome to live coverage of the 2018-19 Premier League as Wolverhampton Wanderers look to make it three wins on the trot in the competition for the first time this season against Bournemouth at Molineux.
Nuno Espirito Santo's masterminding of victory over Chelsea 10 days ago arrested a six game streak without a victory in the top flight and now his hosts have a chance to throw down a genuine marker in the race for European places. They sit only four points off sixth-place Manchester United; could they be headed for a first continental competition since 1980 next season?
Whatever unlikely glory their opponents might have in the back of their minds, Bournemouth certainly will have similar pipe dreams too. Eddie Howe's side are a point and two places in front of the Wanderers heading into today's clash – could they also mount a successful charge for Europe in the new year?
WOLVES: (3-4-3): Rui Patricio; Ryan Bennett, Conor Coady, Willy Boly; Matt Doherty, Joao Moutinho, Ruben Neves, Jonny; Morgan Gibbs-White, Raul Jimenez, Diogo Jota.
Subs: Lys Mousset, Jermain Defoe, Artur Boruc, David Brooks, Marc Pugh, Diego Rico, Callum Wilson.
BOURNEMOUTH (3-4-3): Asmir Begovic; Steve Cook, Nathan Ake, Tyrone Mings; Ryan Fraser, Andrew Surman, Jefferson Lerma, Charlie Daniels; Junior Stanislas, Joshua King, Jordon Ibe.
Subs: Ivan Cavaleiro, Romain Saiss, Helder Costa, Adama Traore, Leander Dendoncker, Ruben Vinagre, John Ruddy.
The teams have emerged at Molineux and we're moments away from kick-off.
It's been a wet and windy, if not too wild first half at Molineux, and it's the hosts who find themselves with their noses in front. Raul Jimenez's early finish following a horrendous mistake from Charlie Daniels gave the home side an early lead – but with both forced to contend with injuries, it's clear the conditions are taking a toll. At half-time, it's Wolves 1-0 Bournemouth.
With Diego Jota heading straight off in the closing minutes there, who will Wolves introduce to cover him in the second half? And will Bournemouth be tempted by a radical rejig following Tyrone Mings' departure?
For Wolves, attention now turns to a huge pre-Christmas encounter with title contenders Liverpool on Friday night – but for Bournemouth, an arguably even more significant game awaits, as they travel to Chelsea on Wednesday in the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup. Until then however, thank you for joining us – and have a good weekend!
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