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Match Preview/Stats/Thread: Wolves v Newcastle Utd
By Tyne-Talk
September 30 2011
Newcastle United travel to the Midlands this weekend for tomorrow’s game against Wolves. They travel on the back of four wins and two draws in the last six games in all competitions, whilst Wolves host on the back of three wins, one draw and two defeats from their last six. Both teams play after Carling Cup wins in midweek.
Mick McCarthy may be without Richard Stearman (toe) who could be replaced by Matt Doherty, whilst Ronald Zubar (groin), Kevin Foley (ankle), Jody Craddock (hamstring) and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (ankle) all remain sidelined.
Steven Fletcher (groin) returns after starting on the bench last weekend and Wolves will be boosted by the news that Kevin Doyle has signed a new contract for the club.
Alan Pardew will offer Davide Santon his debut from the bench after he was included in the squad having recovered from a knee injury and playing 90minutes for the reserves in midweek.
Shola Ameobi (shoulder), Mike Williamson (ankle), Haris Vuckic (broken hand) and Alan Smith (hamstring) are all injured.
Leon Best and Demba Ba both have three goals each for Newcastle, Ba getting his first goal and hatrick against Blackburn Rovers last weekend.
During this game last season a record 12 yellow cards were shown, 7 Wolves players and 5 Newcastle players.
Fact: Newcastle United are unbeaten so far this season and are the only team in the league not to have conceded two or more goals in a game this season. The best defensive record in the Premier League this season.
Fact: Newcastle United are unbeaten in 9 top flight games – their best record in 9 years. They have also had the best start to a season since 1994/95 campaign when their first defeat came in the 12th game of the season.
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6 | Played | 6 |
7 | Points | 12 |
2 | Won | 3 |
1 | Drawn | 3 |
3 | Lost | 0 |
5 | Goals Scored | 7 |
8 | Goals Conceded | 3 |
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30/09/2011 19:59
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come on the toon. 
Stevie should be more careful...
Though if I was Wolves fan I'd be furious. Only the ineptitude of the officials stopped that from being a 2-2 draw
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Heard it was a dodgy decision, but f@ck them as we won
Great result for the Toon, 3rd in the league starting to get a nose bleed being this high up in the league. Well done AP, bloody great job
I can see us getting 13 more points (Wigan, Norwich and Swansea should all be wins, draws with Stoke, Everton, Bolton, Brom are not unreasonable) before New Years.
First 60-70 very good, some breaks like the Saylor pen call but overall looking good, then we play not to lose instead of going for the kill. Loven???? What's that all about?! Guthrie?!?! Keep pushing for more, I say, Bring on Marveaux earlier, bring Ben Arfa on, give Stanton a run out.
Happy with the points and well deserved but have to attack the whole game. As in the NFL, the "prevent" defense "prevents winning". Don't take the foot off the gas until the final whistle blows. How many yellows does Krul have for time wasting at this point? At least two, just keep pushing forward and get more.
Thought Saylor, and Krul were out of their skulls today and Simpson had a great defensive game. If we have an "off day" I can see us getting routed with 6+ goals against, but hell, third in the table is pretty nice. How sweet would it be to finish ahead of the dirty rats at the end of the season.
waffles-28 points by new year would be nice, considering we're looking at Ba & Tiote leaving for a few weeks in January.
HOWAY THE LADS!
Quote:tunyc
Very belated response: great result. We're getting some luck, sure. Weird feeling, that.
waffles-28 points by new year would be nice, considering we're looking at Ba & Tiote leaving for a few weeks in January.
HOWAY THE LADS!
28 points would put us on pace for an 8th place finish at worst (granted that's assuming we don't get slaughtered in January without the ANC people). If we sneak a couple extra points in November from the Mancs and Chelsea as well as win a couple that I pegged as draws, we could see us over 30 heading into the second round of fixtures.
What's separating this squad from the recent past ones is we're actually winning the games we're supposed to (Wolves, Fulham at home) instead of blowing a lead or getting torn apart (Blackpool @ home last year). That's a tribute to one man alone.
It was nice to see Jonas take the p155 out of them after they had tried to kick lumps out of Tiote.
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