"What a way to score my first goal," Tolu Arokodare tells Sky Sports . "I was going to shoot it far corner but then I saw he was trying to close me so I changed my mind at the last minute."

The dinked finish worked. "If it didn't, they'd have killed me," he laughs.

Wolves' new striker, signed for £23m from Genk in the final days of the transfer window, sealed their 2-0 cup win over Everton on Tuesday, a welcome boost after a winless start in the Premier League. The man they call Tolu thinks he can help change that.

"We need to believe in ourselves," he says. Not a problem for someone who has overcome bigger challenges in a career that has taken him from Nigeria via Latvia to the Premier League. His demeanour is that of a man who has been waiting for this spotlight.

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