West Ham lead Wolves 2-1 at half-time at London Stadium

First half at the London Stadium

West Ham United led Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1 at half-time in their Championship match at the London Stadium on Tuesday, according to BBC Sport's live text commentary. The Championship is the second tier of English football, one level below the Premier League.

BBC Sport recorded a penalty for West Ham after Joël Piroe was fouled in the area by the Wolves midfielder André. Jarrod Bowen converted it with a left footed shot into the bottom left corner to make it 2-0.

Wolves pulled one back through Marshall Munetsi, who scored with a right footed shot from outside the box into the bottom right corner. The BBC text excerpt does not record who scored West Ham's first goal.

Before the penalty, BBC Sport logged blocked efforts from Konstantinos Mavropanos, Maximilian Kilman and Divine Mukasa. Mukasa was later shown a yellow card for a bad foul. Early in the second half, Wolves forward Fer López missed with a left footed shot from the centre of the box.

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How both sides arrived

Wolves went into the game on three straight wins under new head coach Cesar Peixoto, the club's own preview said. Saturday's home win over Stoke City saw the side recover from an early deficit to score four, following away wins at Preston North End in the league and Sheffield Wednesday in the Carabao Cup.

That gave Wolves seven points from a possible nine plus cup progression, the club said. Sporting Life noted the campaign opened with a 2-2 home draw against Blackburn, rescued by what it called a controversial stoppage-time penalty from Raúl Jiménez.

West Ham drew at Watford on Saturday after falling behind early and were still without a Championship win, per the Wolves preview. They had drawn at Burnley and lost at home to Charlton Athletic, with their one victory a 4-1 Carabao Cup win at Southampton.

Squad news and unresolved points

Wolves listed Kieran Trippier, Yerson Mosquera and Rafiki Said as unavailable, with Jean-Ricner Bellegarde described by Peixoto as getting closer but out for a couple more weeks. Jordan James, who scored his first club goal against Stoke, was said to be nearing a first Championship start.

For West Ham, Tomáš Souček remained out with an ankle ligament injury, while Pablo Felipe had returned to the bench without playing. Former Wolves captain Max Kilman has been a regular in the West Ham defence this season.

Sporting Life referred to West Ham as Nuno's side, while the Wolves preview described Nuno Espírito Santo as the manager of the Wolves team that won at the London Stadium eight years earlier through an injury-time Adama Traoré goal. The final score of Tuesday's match is not reported in the available material.