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Amorim and his Wolves counterpart, Pereira, have a cursory handshake on the touchline. Amorim looks gutted, understandably, but then he’s out on the pitch and appears to urge his players to go and thank the fans, despite a third straight defeat.

Good evening, Luke McLaughlin here, ready to bring you reaction after the latest chapter in Manchester United’s perma-crisis.

Full time: Wolves 2-0 Man Utd

Peep peep! Wolves jump out of the bottom three after a deserved victory over a moribund Manchester United. I have to dash, but Luke McLaughlin will bring you all the reaction. Goodnight!

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Wolves seal it on the break. Cunha and Hwang ran from inside their own half, with only Martinez in the same postcode. He was left in the slipstream of Cunha, who drew Onana and gave the goal to Hwang.

Hwang Hee-chan rubber stamps a win for the home side. Photograph: Chris Radburn/Reuters
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GOAL! Wolves 2-0 Man Utd (Hwang 90+8)

Game over.

90+6 min Cunha, the player of the match by a distance, draws a foul to eat up another 30 seconds. You can see why Arsenal are apparently keen on him.

90+6 min Antony’s deep cross finds Maguire, who tries to loop a header back across Sa from 12 yards. He doesn’t get enough on it and Sa makes a comfortable save.

90+4 min The home fans aren’t happy when Maguire gets away with a perceived handball on the halfway line. No matter, the resulting attack soon peters out.

90+2 min: Wolves substitutions Jean-Ricner Bellegarde and Craig Dawson replace Jorgen Strand Larsen and Nelson Semedo.

90+1 min Nothing comes of the corner. Nada. Sweet bugger all.

90+1 min Blimey, there will be eight minutes of added time. Eriksen’s free-kick from the left is headed behind for a United corner. For the first time all night, Wolves are hanging on.

90 min Doherty fouls Garnacho on the left wing and is booked.

88 min Jose Sa comes a long way from his line to claim Martinez’s cross with authority.

87 min United appeal for a penalty when Maguire (I think) goes over while trying to reach Mazraoui’s cross from the right. Nothing doing, and it’s been cleared by VAR.

86 min In fact they put the wrong number on the board: it’s Rayan Ait-Nouri who is coming off.

86 min: Wolves substitution Rodrigo Gomes replaces Jorgen Strand Larsen.

85 min Eriksen and Casemiro have given United more composure on the ball and they are having their best spell of the second half. This, admittedly, isn’t saying much.

84 min “A goal direct from a corner is certainly not something new,” writes Giovanni Cafagna. “For Italians of my generation (born 1969) the name Massimo Palanca rings multiple bells and whistles. Nicknamed the O’Rey of the Corner Flag, he holds the umbeaten record of 13 goals scored from a corner. He’s also remembered for another record: he had the smallest feet recorded in Italian football, a size 37 equivalent to UK 4.5.”

Crikey, he sounds like a great subject for a Forgotten Story.

82 min Casemiro’s cross is headed onto the roof of the net by Garnacho (I think). A tricky chance, but still one of the best United have created.

81 min Eriksen loses his man on the right with a clever touch and whacks a cross towards Zirkzee in the middle. Jose Sa gets to it first and holds on.

79 min: Double substitution for Man Utd Joshua Zirkzee and Alejandro Garnacho replace Rasmus Hojlund and Amad Diallo.

79 min Cunha stays down after getting a dig in the ribs from Diallo as they jumped for a loose ball.

78 min If it stays like this Man Utd will have lost four of their last five league games, the exception being the late win at the Etihad.

77 min Larsen has another goal ruled out for offside. This time he was yards beyond the defence, and he knew it.

74 min: Double substitution for Wolves Hwang Hee-chan and Tommy Doyle replace Goncalo Guedes and Joao Gomes.

72 min Wolves are starting to sit on their 1-0 lead, understandable in the circumstances but also risky. Mind you, United haevn’t looked like scoring all night.

70 min Antony cuts inside from the right and ripples the side netting with a low drive from 20 yards. Not a bad effort but Sa had it covered.

69 min Wolves break four on four, only for Larsen to hit a cross straight at Onana. A better ball would have given Guedes a tap-in.

68 min Antony’s cross is headed towards goal by Casemiro and saved easily by Jose Sa.

65 min I’m more convinced than ever that Man Utd made a big mistake by pressuring Amorim to join mid-season. He needs as much time as possible on the training ground; instead he has to watch his players haemmorhage more goodwill every few days. I suspect he’ll be fine in the long run but this false start has already made next season harder than it needed to be.

63 min: Triple substitution for Man Utd Casemiro, Antony and Christian Eriksen replace Leny Yoro, Manuel Ugarte and Kobbie Mainoo. That’ll lift the average age of the side, if nothing else.

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60 min That goal was coming from the moment Bruno Fernandes was sent off. Man Utd’s confidence looks shot.

He tried this in the first half as well, clipping an extravagant inswinger under the crossbar. Onana punched it away on that occasion but this time he couldn’t reach the ball, under pressure from Doherty and Bueno, and the ball nestled in the far corner.

Onana thinks he was fouled by Doherty but the goal has been cleared by VAR. I’d like to see that again as Doherty did raise his arm to jockey Onana, though probably not enough for it to be a clear and obvious error.

A corner by Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Matheus Cunha (not in picture) flies over Manchester United keeper Andre Onana. Photograph: David Davies/PA
All eyes on the ball as it nestles into the United net. Photograph: David Davies/PA
Matheus Cunha celebrates with his Wolves teammates after opening the scoring. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images
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GOAL! Wolves 1-0 Man Utd (Cunha 58)

Matheus Cunha scores direct from a corner!

57 min Man Utd look like a team waiting to concede. I’d be tempted to bring Garnacho on, perhaps for Hojlund, and play with him and Diallo as split strikers.

55 min Ait-Nouri’s crisp shot from the edge of the area has the sting taken out of it by Maguire and dribbles through to Onana. It’s all Wolves now, as you’d expect given their man advantage.

54 min Ugarte is booked for delaying a Wolves restart. He’ll also miss the Newcastle game.

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52 min Larsen’s first-time shot from a tight angle is beaten away by Onana, though once again he went too soon and was offside. There are chances out there for him if he can delay his runs in behind.

52 min That’s Fernandes’s third red card of the season, although the first (against Spurs) was later rescinded. This one means he’ll miss the game against Newcastle at Old Trafford on Monday.

51 min “Radiohead. yep totally,” says Karen As’adi. “You could easily put ‘Let Down’ as a soundtrack for that first half.”

I was thinking track 9 on OK Computer rather than track 5.

50 min: No goal. Yep, Larsen went a split-second too early; a shame as it was a deft finish.

50 min It’s still being checked…

49 min: Disallowed goal for Wolves! Semedo gets away from Dalot and whacks a cross that is headed in deftly by Larsen. And then the flag goes up for offside. It’s being checked but I think he was ahead of the ball when Semedo played it.

Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Jorgen Strand Larsen ripples the back of the United net. Photograph: Chris Radburn/Reuters
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Fernandes sent off!

47 min It gets worse for Man Utd. Bruno Fernandes, booked in the first half, goes in late on Nelson Semedo and receives a second yellow card. He’s shaking his head but it wasn’t a great tackle. It was overzealous rather than malicious but he did catch Semedo on the top of the foot.

Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes (centre) heads off for his early bath. Photograph: David Davies/PA
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46 min Matheus Cunha begins the second half for Wolves.

“I’m no tactical genius,” says Peter Oh, “but it seems obvious to me that the weather conditions call for a fog-fog-two? Two solid banks of fog.”

Something for half-time

Half time: Wolves 0-0 Man Utd

As the wingman once said, ‘Not good. Not good.’ (NB: clip contains a boatload of adult language.) Both teams worked hard but the only consistent quality and joie de vivre came from Matheus Cunha in the Wolves attack. It has to improve in the second half. Right?

45 min One minute of added sweat and toil.

44 min The scoreline is a fair reflection of a fairly poor first half. Wolves have been slightly more threatening in transition that United have in possession, but the xG – around 0.25 apiece – tells the story.

42 min “When the commentator I’m listening to said the fog had returned to Molineux, I wasn’t sure if he meant literally or figuratively,” sys Liz White. “He also said both teams were ‘playing good football, at times’, lol. Happy Christmas!”

The commentator clearly hasn’t got the foggies- oh never mind. Anyone for Radiohead?

41 min At the other end Diallo has a shot from the edge of the area well blocked by the stretching Toti.

39 min The corner almost catches Onana out at the near post. He punches clear but Wolves come again through Semedo, whose shot from 30 yards takes a big deflection and loops towards goal. Onana scrambles desperately across and is relieved to see it swerve this far wide.

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