Sorry Fulham lose their way badly as Cunha's double guides Wolves to victory

Fulham (1) 1 Iwobi 20

Wolverhampton Ws (1) 4 Cunha 31, 87 Gomes 53, Guedes 95

Two fabulous finishes from Matheus Cunha consigned the Whites to a second home defeat of the season and punctured the recent surge of optimism that followed derby wins against Brentford and Palace.

They started brightly and took a merited lead, but then allowed a Wolves side without an away win - who only recently claimed their first win all season - to regroup after drawing the early sting. They fully deserved their win.

The afternoon had promised to be so different. Alex Iwobi claimed his third goal of the campaign with a lovely curling shot from outside the box - having been invited to have a go with his left peg after Raul Jimenez and Kenny Tete had helped recycle an attack that had broken down.

The Whites really should have been ahead before Iwobi's classy finish too. Reiss Nelson clipped a clever pass to a marauding Antonee Robinson and the American's low cross found Jimenez, arriving at speed. The Mexican should have buried it but crashed his shot against the frame of the woodwork from eight yards.

Maybe he didn't want to bite the hand that used to feed him.

Wanderers levelled it 10 minutes later when a searching ball hit from inside his own half from one-time Fulham man Mario Lemina found Cunha ghosting in behind Joachim Anderson and two fine touches brought the pass under control before he lifted the ball past Bernd Leno.

The goal changed the nature of a contest that had been bossed by the Whites up to then and the boost to Wolves was carried forward into the second half when Joao Gomes drilled home rom inside the box after being slipped in by Cunha into the inside left channel.

Cunha then almost punished a sloppy Tom Cairney pass - the midfielder having only just come on. The red-hot Wolves striker saw his final effort deflected behind by Calvin Bassey.

It was send for Harry time. Wilson scored that great double in the last home match against Brentford and was also on fire for Wales in midweek. He thudded s shot onto the top of the crossbar from range - as if intent to prove he should be in the starting line up.

Marco Silva made three more changes in one hit, with another ex-Wolves man coming on in the ample shape of Adama Traore. Rodrigo Muniz replaced Jimenez and Timothy Castagne took over from Tete.

But apart from a few incursions down the right flank, little else materialised and Wolves, growing in confidence, sealed the deal with another fine finish from Cunha, who arced a ball over Leno after being found by Joao Gomez on the edge of the area.

And more salt was rubbed into those now gaping wounds deep into injury time when sub Goncalo Guedes fired in a fourth after a breakaway. A subdued home crowd had already started to drift away by then.

Whites: (4-2-3-1) Leno - Tete (Castagne 71), Anderson, Bassey, Robinson - Pereira (Wilson 59), Lukic - Iwobi, Smith Rowe (Cairney 59), Nelson (Raore 71) - Jimenez (Muniz 71)

Wolves:(3-5-2) Jose Sa - Semedo (Pond 96), Toti, Ait-Nouri -Bellegarde (Doherty 87), Joao Gomes (Doyle 90), Andre, Lemina, Rodrigo Gomes (Hee-Chan 90) - Strand-Larsen, Matheus Cunha (Guedes 90)

Attendance: 26,685