BRUNO FERNANDES struck twice as Manchester United moved into the Prem’s top six — in front of darts world champion Luke Littler.
Fernandes hit the bullseye in each half with Bryan Mbeumo and Mason Mount also scoring.
Home fans protested as rock-bottom Wolves suffered an eighth-straight top-flight loss.
Red Devils supporter Littler, 18, kicks off his world title defence at Ally Pally on Thursday.
Ruben Amorim‘s side could not have asked for kinder opponents than Wolves
Yet after the drudgery of their draw with West Ham, turned up the heat on the Portuguese boss, Wolves shocked United by scoring a goal for the first time since October 29.
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It was their first in the Premier League in 539 MINUTES.
The Red Devils had enough chances to win a month-full of matches in the first half alone. It was so easy that complacency crept in whenever they had a chance.
All of this against the backdrop of outright mutiny from Wolves fans.
They turned on the ownership and sang “You’re not fit to wear the shirt”. And Wolves still equalised before half-time.
United unusually opted for a second-half huddle. Muddle would have been more befitting the team at that stage.
The unity worked. United regained their lead through a slick and incisive move six minutes into the second half that was tapped in by Bryan Mbeumo.
It said it all that Noussair Mazraoui went to claim the ball, eager to restart the match and improve United’s goal difference.
They have risen to a respectable sixth. They have lost one game in nine.
Even Kobbie Mainoo came on. There were exaggerated cheers at his 78th-minute entrance..
This was a comical and bizarre spectacle that was a contest through United competing against themselves.
Whenever Wolves had previously lost at home to United since their promotion in 2018, it was by the odd goal.
Until Jean-Ricner Bellegarde steered the ball into the bottom right-hand corner in added time of the first half, a cricket score seemed possible.
United did their best not to score against Wolves even when they eventually scored.
Andre lazily lost the ball to Casemiro, who played in Matheus Cunha. He misplaced a simple pass for Bruno Fernandes, who slipped twice but squirmed the ball past Sam Johnstone as he was tumbling the second time.
Man Utd ratings vs Wolves: Bruno has night to remember after goal to forget as Cunha ignores boo boys
BRUNO FERNANDES stole the show as Manchester United returned to winning ways against an out-of-sorts Wolves.
The Red Devils skipper ended his barren run of goals by opening the scoring midway through the first half.
And United made their dominance count with three more unanswered goals in the second period – after Jean-Ricner Bellegarde gave Wolves hope when he levelled matters on the stroke of half-time.
Bryan Mbeumo notched his first goal since the draw with Tottenham last month and Mason Mount then got in on the act at Molineux.
Fernandes rounded off the scoring from the penalty spot after VAR intervened when Yerson Mosquera handled.
The three points allowed United to climb into the Premier League’s top six.
Here’s how SunSport’s Neil Moxley rated the United players from Molineux…
United have struggled for goals from open play and that continued against what can safely be regarded as one of the worst teams in the Premier League era.
Mbeumo, Cunha and Amad all had goes at goal in quick succession, with one saved, one off the line and one wide.
United and Wolves are hardly a clash of styles but there was a clash of shorts. United’s all-black ensemble included yellow stripes that could easily be mistaken for Wolves colours if the crest was removed.
At times, their conversion rate in front of goal was resembled relegation fodder.
While the away end was packed along the Steve Bull Stand, the home sections were spoilt by swathes of empty seats.
Thousands of Wolves fans deliberately delayed their entrance in protest at the Fosun International ownership.
The concourse was still so rammed one United official, clad in a club jacket, was abused on their route to the stands.
The arrival of the protesters and their raucous chants rubbed off on the United fans, who broke into a rendition of their sinister song about Joel Glazer.
“You’ve sold the team, now sell the club,” complained the Wolves fans.
They made it abundantly clear to executive chairman Jeff Shi he is not welcome in the Black Country.
Cunha was the last star to desert the sinking ship at Molineux. No matter how many handshakes and hugs he received upon his return, he was still booed whenever he received the ball.
Sometimes, the boos were not aimed at Cunha. Wolves fans got on Jhon Arias’s back for a perceived lack of work ethic and Jorgen Strand Larsen was cheered off as he was substituted.
Cunha started as the false nine but dropped deep and drifted wide. He exchanged a high five with Mbeumo during a seventh-minute stoppage, which suggested they knew they had Wolves where they wanted them.
Seconds later, Diogo Dalot was through on goal one-on-one.
He had more time to consider his finish than his touch-and-hit against West Ham, and Johnstone read where he would place the ball.
That set the tone for United’s merciful finishing that kept Wolves alive for most of the night. Johnstone was alert soon again to repel Mbeumo’s volley from the corner.
This was the fifth time Amorim had started Mbeumo, Cunha and Mason Mount together and United have played some of their most accomplished attacking football with the trio.
Mount ended Wolves’s resistance on 62 minutes with a classy volley that opened up a two-goal United lead away from home for the first time since March.
Mount, who has now scored more Premier League goals for United this season than in his previous two combined, is yet to earn a chant.
So the United fans aired the creator Fernandes’s name.
Fernandes started and finished the scoring, the second from the penalty spot.
He is someone they can rely on.
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