Nick Woltemade

[Gallowgate Toon]

Thought he started really well today but then started to fade quite a bit which lead to sloppiness. He needs more work physically, for sure. A real shame we couldn't get a decent preseason into him.

[KingArthur]

19 minutes ago, nemtizz said:

Looked shite. Not surprising though probably knackered.

Still created 2-3 great chances…

[J7]

Didn’t see any problem with him tonight. Good assist and was unlucky not to score. The service to him needs to be better.

[Jack14Bojangles]

Nick's just not having much luck lately. All his goals have been fantastic.

 

He could have scored two or three more if his shots hadn't been cleared off the line by outfield players. That happened again today.

 

At least he had an assist today, and some very good attacking passes were also on the cards.

 

And I disagree with the statement that he lacks physicality. He's developed brilliantly in just a few months.

In the first half today, he snatched the ball from a Tottenham player near the corner flag with a clean tackle.

[Kid Icarus]

Really poor tonight. Not a criticism, I'm sure there are fair reasons, and I like him a lot, but it's really hard to do much when the focal point of your attack isn't on it.

[Rod]

1 minute ago, Kid Icarus said:

Really poor tonight. Not a criticism, I'm sure there are fair reasons, and I like him a lot, but it's really hard to do much when the focal point of your attack isn't on it.

Yeah I thought he was really average too.

[Lotus]

Mmmmmmm, didn’t feel like we often got the ball to him in the right places, and the couple of times we did he fluffed it. Nice assist though. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

He's always going to give the ball away a few times, the things he's trying to do are just low percentage plays a lot of the time. Chris Wood can pop the ball 20 yards back to where it came from with ease, I don't want Chris Wood. 

[timeEd32]

Not his best. At times he needs to be a bit more selfish and try taking a quick touch or two + shot. 

[Lush Vlad]

Minor gripe. As he rarely has a pass on or a black and white shirt near him. But it feels like when he is tightly marked. He sometimes has an extra touch or two and we lose it. When he often seems to have worked a bit of space to shift the ball. Then has that extra touch that brings the ball closer to the defender.

 

He’s not a target man and too often we still play like he is. But he is getting better back to goal and we need to support him better. He still looks isolated a lot of the time. 
 

He was quality the first 35 or so, most of the team were. But he did fade out of it a bit. Wissa coming back will save his legs in games like this. 

[Mr Misery]

Yeah he needs to realise he doesn't have as much time in the PL. Mind half the squad are like that at times.

[TRon]

2 hours ago, Lush Vlad said:

Minor gripe. As he rarely has a pass on or a black and white shirt near him. But it feels like when he is tightly marked. He sometimes has an extra touch or two and we lose it. When he often seems to have worked a bit of space to shift the ball. Then has that extra touch that brings the ball closer to the defender.

 

He’s not a target man and too often we still play like he is. But he is getting better back to goal and we need to support him better. He still looks isolated a lot of the time. 
 

He was quality the first 35 or so, most of the team were. But he did fade out of it a bit. Wissa coming back will save his legs in games like this. 

 

 

You could say the same for Joelinton tbh. He does give the ball away a few times but the easy option would be just to keep passing it backwards. Instead he tries to get a hold of it, manouevre it into some space before releasing a ball forwards into space. I think only Bruno has the quality to do that regularly from all our midfielders. 

[joeyt]

Not his fault but he's pretty slow off the mark so unless the ball is hit directly to him he's going to struggle to stretch defences

 

 

Edited December 3, 2025 by joeyt

[Magic Rat]

Got a ticket through the ballot for last night so wasn't watching on the TV.  I thought he was very poor, adding very little.  Wasn't moving to create options, his little flicks were going to Spurs players.  Losing tackles, winning very few.  The person I was with thought that he needed sunstiting despite us not having anyone on the  bench suitable for the role. Hopefully it was just an off night. Clearly showed what I have thought for sometime.  We desperately need an alternative up front when he's playing like he did last night.  We need to hope that Wissa is fit soon and makes the grade.  Otherwise we will continue to pose little threat to good defenses.

[Mikky]

3 hours ago, Lush Vlad said:

Minor gripe. As he rarely has a pass on or a black and white shirt near him. But it feels like when he is tightly marked. He sometimes has an extra touch or two and we lose it. When he often seems to have worked a bit of space to shift the ball. Then has that extra touch that brings the ball closer to the defender.

 

He’s not a target man and too often we still play like he is. But he is getting better back to goal and we need to support him better. He still looks isolated a lot of the time. 
 

He was quality the first 35 or so, most of the team were. But he did fade out of it a bit. Wissa coming back will save his legs in games like this. 

Add all the CL and WC games he’s played - blokes been a bloody hero if you ask me - literally carried the load week in week out 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

He really tries to close people down as well, he doesn't just jog around. 

[Benwell Lad]

Shaking things up with Wissa on a match to match or in match basis, even playing them together at times will help him a lot.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Training with Wissa will probably help him as well. Wissa himself has made the transition from more all-round player to expert fox in the box. 

[JP]

12 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

He's always going to give the ball away a few times, the things he's trying to do are just low percentage plays a lot of the time. Chris Wood can pop the ball 20 yards back to where it came from with ease, I don't want Chris Wood. 

 

This is a good point. I'd like to see Nick make the ball stick more when it does go up there but you make a valid point

 

[Benwell Lad]

1 minute ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Training with Wissa will probably help him as well. Wissa himself has made the transition from more all-round player to expert fox in the box. 

 

Yes. Nick is an exceptional player, something different, but he's young and new to the PL. 

Good thing is he comes across as intelligent, calm and humble so he should pick things up very quite quickly.

[The College Dropout]

Would still like him to attempt  to time runs in behind. Doesn’t have to be a foot race, use creative movement 

[duo]

Wissa / Woltemade combo will be lethal 

[Coffee_Johnny]

Very little came off for him last night. Though did lay ball off for Bruno. Wissa/an option will be game changing for us. 

[duo]

Sometimes tries to be too clever with his flicks when he just needs to keep it simple 

[Hanshithispantz]

I just think he was tired yesterday, he was very sloppy, which was annoying as I thought we were finding him better than we usually do.