Matheus Cunha once again underlined his importance to Wolverhampton Wanderers’ prospects of putting a desperately poor start to the season behind them. The Brazilian capped an outstanding individual performance with two superbly taken goals and a clever assist as Gary O’Neil’s side maintained their recent progress with a second successive win that eased the pressure on the head coach and lifted the club out of the bottom three.

Cunha was the star against Southampton (1 goal, 1 assist) and he was the star again against Fulham, taking his season tally to 7 goals, 3 assists. If not in January, a handful of Champions League clubs should be after the 25-year-old Brazilian next summer.