Team news and stats ahead of West Ham vs Wolves in the Premier League on Sunday (kick-off 7pm). By contrast, City’s new centre-half partnership of debutant Nathan Ake and John Stones had barely broken a sweat. Wolves 1-3 Manchester City: Visitors put to bed a fight-back from the hosts to begin their domestic campaign with a victory. City impressively shook off their lack of a pre-season – and three positive tests for Covid-19 to first-team players in the past week – to pick up where they left off as the form team of Project Restart. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. your username. Wolverhampton Football Club - get the latest news, fixtures, results, match reports, videos, photos, squad and player stats on Sky Sports Football The home of Wolverhampton Wanderers on BBC Sport online. That Christmas-time defeat in last season’s corresponding fixture – arguably the best game of the top-flight season – saw City surrender a 2-0 lead in the second half and, with it, the faintest hope of catching runaway leaders Liverpool. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Gabriel Jesus (right), Phil Foden (centre) and Kevin De Bruyne scored for Man City, Kevin De Bruyne opened the scoring from the spot, Raul Jimenez's header for Wolves threatened to set up a dramatic finale. Wolves were responsible for two of City’s eight defeats last season and were the type of side that Pep Guardiola’s players struggled against – upper mid-table, defensively organised and lethal on the counter-attack. Pick your team for 2020/21 - £50k up for grabs! Usually so compact and dependable, the Wolves defence had been torn apart. Wolves have completed the signing of right-back Nelson Semedo from Barcelona in a deal worth nearly £37m, including potential add-ons. Wolves vs Man City LIVE: Latest score, goals and updates from Premier League fixture tonight. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Wolves 1-3 Manchester City: Visitors put to bed a fight-back from the hosts to begin their domestic campaign with a victory. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? That would change at the start of the second half once Nuno had picked out a potential weak link in City’s rearguard. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. Aké and Torres in
Manchester City training, Man City pass litmus test in Premier League return against Wolves, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. Keep track of the latest transfers across the leagues... New Tottenham signing Matt Doherty is a wing-back but he also fulfils the role of goal poacher in Wolves' unusual system. Romain Saiss is known to be rash in the tackle every so often and he thoughtlessly slid in to clip De Bruyne on the right-hand edge of the penalty area.