Overview
Apart from a 2-0 win over Burnley in the Carabao Cup, Wolves are yet to taste victory in the Premier League. After the first 3 rounds, they lost 2 matches and drew 1.
The most disappointing of these was the 2-6 loss to Chelsea in round 2. Although it is only the beginning of the season, the "Wolves" need to quickly return if they do not want to fall into the relegation spiral.
However, their next opponent will not be easy, Newcastle. Under coach Eddie Howe, the "Magpies" have never been an easy team to bully. Moreover, they also won 7/9 maximum points after 3 matches, including a 2-1 victory over Tottenham.
Even with home advantage, Wolves will need to play at more than 100% if they want to take points against Newcastle. Moreover, home advantage is not necessarily an advantage for Wolves.
In the last 6 times hosting opponents at Molineux, they only won 1, the rest were 5 defeats. In 4 of those matches, the "Wolves" let the away teams score 2 or more times.
Head to head record
Wolves have only won 1 of their last 5 games. Meanwhile, Newcastle are unbeaten in their last 5 games and have won 4 of them.
Newcastle have won three of their last five meetings with Wolves. Last season, Alexander Isak was Newcastle's top scorer with 21 goals. He also scored against Wolves last season.
In 4/5 recent matches, Howe's team has only scored 1 goal. However, they have also kept a clean sheet in 3/6 recent matches.
Human resources situation
Wolves are missing three key players in this match due to injury, including Enso Gonzalez, Sasa Kalajdzic and Boubacar Traore.
On the other side of the front line, Newcastle will be without Sven Botman, Jamaal Lascelles and Callum Wilson due to injury. Joe Willock's recovery is also uncertain.
Expected lineup:
Wolves: Johnstone, T. Gomes, Dawson, Mosquera, Semedo, Bellegarde, J. Gomes, Lemina, Ait-Nouri, Cunha, Larsen.
Newcastle: Pope, Livramento, Schar, Burn, Kelly, Tonali, Guimaraes, Joelinton, Gordon, Barnes, Isak.
The match between Wolves and Newcastle takes place at 22:30 on September 15 (Vietnam time).
