Wolves Res 4 West Ham Res 1

A strong Wolves reserves side completed their home programme with an ultimately comprehensive win over a young West Ham outfit at AFC Telford.

Fielding a full first team, Wolves overcame spirited resistance for the latter part of the first half to kill the game with three goals in 10 second half minutes.

Wolves took a third minute lead when Sam Vokes steered home from six yards after Richard Stearman nodded down a Nenad Milijas corner.

Andrew Surman should have doubled their lead only to lob over keeper Peter Kurucz and the bar after Vokes nodded down a Greg Halford centre.

Poor control cost Vokes a clear chance when he thought he was offside after Adlene Guedioura's pass split the defence.

And Wolves' dominance came to an abrupt end midway through the first half when an accidental brush of the hand by makeshift centre back Segundo Castillo in the face of Christian Montano as they chased a ball gave the Hammers a free kick.

Making his comeback from injury, Luis Boa-Morte's resulting drilled effort fizzed inches wide.

West Ham, for whom only three players had played League football, controlled the rest of the half and deservedly went in level at the break.

Josh Payne flashed a swerving drive straight at keeper Wayne Hennessey before Terry Dixon's flying header sailed just wide from Jordan Brown's inviting cross.

Right back Callum Driver then tried his luck after cutting inside onto his left foot with a shot that flew narrowly off target.

Hennessey then pulled off an acrobatic save to claw Oliver Lee's rising drive out of the air but the referee pulled play back after Richard Stearman caught the midfielder as he shot and Payne's goalbound free kick hit the wall.

West Ham's pressure found its reward when they equalised three minutes before half-time when centre-back Sergio Sanchez nodded home on the line after his initial header hit the post from Driver's cross as Wolves came out after partly clearing a corner.

Wolves recovered to force a clear chance for Vokes, but the Wales international could only lob over after Milijas's flick left him with Kurucz to beat.

A rising thunderbolt from Milijas signalled a final half hour of Wolves' dominance that saw them clinch victory with a flourish.

The Serbia international teed up Sylvan Ebanks-Blake for a tight angled shot across goal before the striker's chested knockdown was seized upon by the on-rushing Stephen Ward to finish with his unfavoured right foot to restore Wolves' lead in the 65^th minute from the edge of the area.

Five minutes later it was 3-1 when Greg Halford's 35-yard inswinging free kick from the left somehow found its way into the bottom corner of the net as the bodies and bouncing ball confused Kurucz.

Wolves were now in full flow and Surman flashed an angled effort wide after Halford's deep cross on the run had been turned back into the danger area by substitute Nathaniel Mendez-Laing.

Halford was the provider for Wolves' fourth goal on 75 when Stearman bundled home from almost on the line after Kurucz failed to hold another swirling free kick from the utility man.

Wolves (4-3-3): Hennessey; Halford, Castillo (Dunleavy 68), Stearman, Ward; Guedioura (Davis 73), Surman, Milijas; Ebanks-Blake (Mendez-Laing 68), Vokes, Keogh.

Subs not used: McCarey (gk), Bennett.

West Ham (4-4-2): Kurucz; Driver, Sanchez, McNaughton, Brown; Lee (Barrett 61), Spence, Payne, Boa-Morte (Edgar HT); Montano, Dixon (Wearen 75).

Subs not used: Mehmet (gk), Abdullah.

Referee: A Bennett.

Attendance: 404.