Quite what this victory means for Julen Lopetegui will become clear in the coming days.If the West Ham board had already made their decision and Monday night’s 2-1 win over Wolves was always going to be his final outing as Hammers boss, his side produced a fine send-off for the Spaniard.But if it was not yet a case of decision made, then Jarrod Bowen’s powerful curling effort into the far corner will come to be known as the goal that kept Lopetegui in his job.
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00:00Well it's full time here at the London Stadium and West Ham earn a really important 2-1 win
00:05over Wolves in the match dubbed El Sacaco because of the grave circumstances that
00:10under-pressure managers Julian Lopetegui and Gary O'Neill faced coming into this game.
00:15It remains to be seen what comes of this game, whether Lopetegui, the decision by the West Ham
00:21board is already to remove him of his post even after this win, or whether this game
00:27saves him from the sack. If so then he can thank his captain Jared Bowen who scored the winning
00:33goal in the second half. It was a second half that was much more intriguing than the first half which
00:39was a very fraught affair, it was 0-0 up the break. But the match burst into life early in
00:44the second half when Thomas Socek headed home from Bowen's corner. It was then 2-0 or so West
00:50Ham thought when Kudus scored from close range but his tap-in, he got a little bit early with
00:54his run and VAR rightly disallowed the goal for offside. Soon Matt Doherty had equalised for Wolves
01:001-1 and Lopetegui was probably fearing that his side might not get the three points that they so
01:06desperately wanted from this game, but they did thanks to Bowen who scored by curling the ball
01:10into the far corner to win the game for 2-1 and potentially keep Lopetegui in the job.