Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Millwall

Jota is on loan at Wolves from Spanish giants Atletico Madrid

Diogo Jota's superb early strike was enough to give Wolves victory over 10-man Millwall at Molineux.

The Portuguese midfielder opened the scoring when he fired past keeper Jordan Archer from the edge of the box after a one-two with Leo Bonatini.

Millwall were reduced to 10 men when Aiden O'Brien was given a second yellow card for pulling back Matt Doherty.

And Wolves went close to doubling their lead late on when Archer denied Romain Saiss from close range.

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Having won their opening three league games of the season, Nuno Espirito Santo's side had only taken a point from the previous two.

But Jota's early strike, which flew past Archer's right hand, proved to be enough to claim a victory which put Wolves third in the table.

Jota went close again midway through the first half, when his angled drive flashed across the face of the goal before Ruben Neves fired inches over on the stroke of half-time.

After Steve Morison headed over for the visitors after the break, Romain Saiss then went close to making it 2-0 with Archer pushing away his deflected shot.

O'Brien was shown a red card for his second booking in 11 minutes but the hosts failed to capitalise on their numerical advantage despite late efforts from Leo Bonatini and Saiss.

The Lions gave the hosts a late scare when keeper John Ruddy denied Shaun Williams.

Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo:

"There is a lot of work to be done to make them better, the boys have to enjoy it but at the same time improve.

"We should do more with the quality of possession and the chances that we had.

"When the opponent is down to 10 it can reduce the spaces but we should be more aggressive in those moments. It is the next step.

"We want to achieve points. Where we are in the table at this moment doesn't mean anything."

Millwall manager Neil Harris:

"I think in the first half we showed too much respect to Wolves. We maybe lacked a little bit of belief in imposing our style of play.

"We addressed it at half-time and I thought that for 20 minutes in the second half we looked much better - a lot more Millwall-like, a lot more dogged.

"I thought we were the better side and then the red card comes and changes the momentum of the game again.

"Aiden is a really bright football player and he knows better than to pull somebody back when he is on a yellow card and that made it an uphill struggle for us."