DIOGO JOTA made it five goals in less than three days as Wolves swatted away doomed Norwich.
The Portuguese striker grabbed a hat-trick in Thursday’s 4-0 win over Espanyol in the Europa League.
Jota opens the lead for Wolves against NorwichCredit: Rex Features
And little more than 60 hours later, he was back at Molineux, scoring twice in the first half to put his team in complete command with Raul Jimenez grabbing the third shortly after the break.
Norwich, marooned at the bottom, can have few complaints and some of their defending was embarrassing.
Wolves looked a bit sloppy but they still opened the scoring with their first attack of the game thanks Jota showing good close control and then threading the ball through Tim Krul’s legs.
VAR was used to check for a handball from Doherty, who also started the move after overpowering Jamal Lewis, but the ball hit his side.
It was some truly weak defending from Norwich and the second goal was even worse as the back four delivered a complete disappearing act.
Roman Saiss pounced on a loose ball and he crossed for unmarked Jota to score.
It would have been worse for Norwich had it not been for Krul who delivered two fine saves to deny save from Ruben Neves.
The second stop, in first half injury time, was a cracker and he pushed Neves’ free-kick onto the woodwork.
Wolves grab the third after the break with Jimenez having an easy tap in for his 21st goal of the season after Jota’s shot hit the post.
Canaries boss Daniel Farke made some changes, switched to a back three and brought on striker Josip Drmic to partner Teemu Pukki but it did not make a blind bit of difference.
Jota netted twice in the first half to put his team in complete commandCredit: Reuters
Mexican striker Jimenez smashes in from close rangeCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Raul Jimenez celebrates making it 3-0 for WolvesCredit: AFP or licensors
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
