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Newcastle United 3-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (02/03/24) | Reaction: pg 17


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Expected that. Players back, press back, swagger back. Notable that Dubs made a few saves as well, reminiscent of last season when Pope would usually make a few to keep other teams out.

 

We’ll kick on from here.

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Willock was sensational first half. Drove forward with the ball, played some beautiful switches and through balls. He has a telepathic relationship with Isak. He makes a big difference! 

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6 minutes ago, McDog said:

Dan Burn gets loads of stick but I thought he was solid today.


I didn't all Wolves chances came from his side. 3 times in the second half he left his player totally unmarked in the box at the back post which nearly resulted in goals 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Menace said:

Great result. We need a player similar to Willock in summer.

Ederson - covers all our midfielders 

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Yeah somewhat approaching last season levels in spurts. Wolves were absolutely toothless from minute one. Were totally bypassing their midfield with little through balls, one-two’s, chips etc. Energy levels seemed to go up in last 15 and the swagger was there by the end. 
 

Goals were kind of scrappy. A deflection straight onto Isak’s head, a mix up with their DF and GK giving Gordon a tap in. Tino’s goal looked scrappy and I guess it was but he’s run from RB, got into the box, forced his way through and got so close to goal he had no choice but to poke a foot at it. A word on him, he’s so good at close control and wriggling through players, if there is a 50\50 to be won, he wins it, gets himself some space with a good touch and then just runs. Honestly kind of hoping for a run for him at RB now.

 

Overall quite surprised at how routine that was. I thought Wolves would cause us much more problems but it turned into one the easiest home games we’ve had this season. Subs (as we’ve been crying out for for half the season) gave us the energy to stop Wolves getting more of a foothold after a little bit of pressure and allowed us to still carry a little attacking threat. More routine 3-0 home wins from now until May please. Crowd were quiet again unfortunately.

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Massive win that. We really needed a routine, fairly comfortable, almost boring at times win to nil. The fact it has come against a team in and around us, is even better. 
 

Willock was immense. Bruno had a brilliant and disciplined second half. Longstaff was much better playing high again. Murphy helped with the width and press. Subs all contributed positively.
 

Just a shame about Trippier and West Ham’s late couple of goals. 

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Just now, RodneyCisse said:


Only thing that seemed to stick out was longstaff often stood with a finger up his nose.

Hopefully Tonali is up and roaming next season.

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Just now, RodneyCisse said:


Only thing that seemed to stick out was longstaff often stood with a finger up his nose.


Very late in the game Bruno spun and passed it to him, expecting a quick 1-2 - he (Longstaff passed it back) - could see Bruno getting frustrated with him

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4 minutes ago, RodneyCisse said:


Only thing that seemed to stick out was longstaff often stood with a finger up his nose.

 

That's the signal to go 4-4-2.

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