5 key battles between Newcastle and Wolves

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This weekend’s match between Newcastle and Wolves come on the back of contrasting results for both teams.

Benitez’s side put six past a hapless QPR team who couldn’t get close to the Magpies. Meanwhile, Walter Zenga saw Wolves go down 4-0 at home to Barnsley, subsequently cancelling his side’s scheduled day off on Wednesday to prepare for this weekend’s fixture.

There could be changes to both line-ups for this game – particularly Newcastle given Rafa’s penchant for rotation – but here are the battles that we think will be key between the two sides.

Jonjo Shelvey Newcastle United In Action

Shelvey v Coady

Wolves’ Conor Coady could have his hands full against a seemingly rejuvenated Jonjo Shelvey in the middle of the park. The defensive midfielder will no doubt be tasked with ensuring that Shelvey doesn’t get the space outside the box afforded to him by QPR at the weekend, where he popped up with two goals from a decent distance.

After an underwhelming start to his Newcastle career Shelvey appears to have found the kind of form that should come as standard for a player worth £12m. Like Kevin Nolan before him, dropping down a division may be the making of his time on Tyneside.

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  1. Thanks for the thread SG but sadly I can’t read the other 4 key battles as when I click on HERE it’s error or oops did you mean NUFCBLOG.CO.UK showing !!!!!!!, I will check in later to see if problem resolved.

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  2. SG cheers mate but I too can’t get the following link same as Kim.
    For me I just think Shelvey has took a while to settle and add to that that he was having to play under Schteve which must have been hard ?.
    But he is starting to show his ability..

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  3. Dave, I think Shelvey will thrive in this league and it should give him the confidence to do well if we go up too.

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  7. Cheers, Prem, yep that works.
    Good read SG, We should have too much for Wolves, but you never know,especially in this league. We do have the depth in the squad for Rafa to shake it up mid game if we look like losing. I won’t even try to second guess the starting 11 though.

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  8. Was reading an optimistic Wolves site the other day amd they felt that despite the clean sheets, our defence still looks vulnerable

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  9. Cheers Shola.

    Have fixed the ‘Click here’ problem.

    Was watching Soccer AM this morning and they were talking about the Shearer statue saying the reason for the finger (oo err missus) instead of the hand was because that’s what he did for his last goal v the scum.

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  10. Cheers Shoals Ghost. I can’t see Wolves getting anything today. They are in for 2 spankings off us in a matter of a few days.

    After that, I can see us stuttering away at Villa, who’s season will begin by beating us – and then we have a tough game against Norwich. Maybe 1 point from 6 there to bring g us back down to Earth. Win those games and we will be unstoppable, but it rarely works out like that for us.

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  11. Cheers Shola, great write up…

    Shelvey has found his level, the bloke won’t get a kick in the Premier League…
    Not important though, he’s providing the fulcrum to our midfield, and doing a good job of orchestrating his team to victory at the moment.

    If we don’t win by at least 2 clear goals today I’ll be extremely disappointed… and a win on Tuesday to top it off…

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  12. Shamrock, divvent fret bonny lad, Rafa will batten down the hatches at Villa and we’ll pick up at least a point, then we’ll unleash the real toon on Norwich and beat them 4-3….

    Git your hard earned English poonds on these results now… easy money 🙂

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  17. Newcastle United (4-2-3-1): Matz Sels; Vurnon Anita , Chancel Mbemba , Jamaal Lascelles (c), Paul Dummett ; Isaac Hayden, Jonjo Shelvey; Matt Ritchie, Mohamed Diame, Ayoze Perez ; Dwight Gayle

    Substitutes: Karl Darlow , DeAndre Yedlin, Ciaran Clark, Jack Colback , Christian Atsu, Yoan Gouffran , Aleksandar Mitrovic

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  21. A little sorry not to see Mitro but think Rafa’s bringing him along slowly. Gayle and Diame need a match too. Not used to having these selection options.

    Think we’ll see Lazaar and Yedlin feature on. Tuesday

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  43. Bit weird that he went with Gayle and Diame when that was the team that created so little at home against Huddersfield. Same selection, same result so far. I would have played Mitrovic to give us a focal point.

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  44. Brighton losing 0-2 at home. Bloody Huddersfield winning again though. Ah well, still time to attack the gallowgate 2nd half. Wolves fell apart at the end of their last game.

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  46. Ice–this is great–switching between the two, I’m my own tv director!

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  50. Bloody Wolves at bloody home ffs, not having that like.
    HWTL, get your act together. Don’t worry Rafa will sort em

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  53. Got the radio link going, thanks kim. Anyone have any luck with Periscope?

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  56. Fans, I went on a periscope link, but it messed up the PC for a bit, had trouble getting pc working again so I’m sticking to rarestpepe now.

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  63. This is why I am baffled by people thinking we’ll walk the league.

    Yes, we’ve had a good run and smashed QPR but then this will happen. It is a crazy league.

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