Newcastle United v Wolves – The Rematch

Andy The Magpie

Just three days after our disappointing 2-0 defeat to Wolves, we face Walter Zenga’s side yet again in this EFL trophy third round clash.

In what was a subdued performance by Rafa’s men, tonight represents the perfect opportunity to take stock of what went wrong and take the necessary steps to correct it.

Team News

With squad rotation a must at this level, signs point to Benitez handing new striker Daryl Murphy a start in tonight’s match at SJP as well as defender Grant Hanley. How he intends to shoehorn the former into the starting line-up remains to be seen; fellow striker Dwight Gayle’s record in this competition (below) certainly isn’t to be grumbled at with the former Palace man netting 8 goals in 6 appearances during his career.

As is now common knowledge, full back Vurnon Anita will not appear in tonight’s game or indeed the trip to Villa or game against Norwich City after getting sent off in Saturday’s defeat.

Prediction

With Zenga’s men not bothering to head home after Saturday’s game with a return fixture just a couple of days later (correct me if I’m wrong), a prolonged stay in the north east capital could indeed unsettle tonight’s opponents.

With the presence of Murphy up top providing a much more direct outlet, and the likes of Hanley using tonight as a means of proving their worth to the gaffer, tonight we’re expecting the Magpies to bounce back from Saturday’s defeat with a comfortable 3-1 win in the return fixture.

Predicted Line-Up (4-4-2)

 

GK: Darlow

RB: Yedlin

CB: Hanley

CB: Lascelles

LB: Lazaar

RM: Ritchie

CM: Colback

CM: Hayden

LM: Atsu

CF: Murphy

CF: Gayle

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453 thoughts on “Newcastle United v Wolves – The Rematch”

  4. Gashley: weve lost the same amount as the bottom 5 or 6 only the bottom 2 have lost 4

    Have we won the same amount as the bottom 5 or 6 too? Or scored the same amount, or conceded the same amount? We will be fine. This is a whole new squad. There is bound to be the occasional wobble. I always said we wont click properly until we are well into October. I’ve seen nothing to suggest we wont have a good season.

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  6. Shamrock, a bit of whingeing and dooming and glooming are par for the course mate…
    Let’s not forget we are cuffing poor Championship teams mate, we’re miles away from being average …

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  7. Dortmund have scored 6 goals twice on the trot, they have 4 goals tonight away to Wolfsburg with still 20 minutes to play..
    Now that’s proper football, watch the Leicester goal this evening, they play high speed high pressure football…. proper attacking football, now that’s what I want to see, not diddy’s who can’t pass a ball to each other..

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  8. Guess we will find next season eh MM, after we go up in first place that is. I predict a finish of 12th/13th in the PL next term then 9th/10th season after.

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  13. G2, I like your optimism bonny lad 🙂 Now if we had gotten Tuchel and Aubameyang we’d be really like Dortmund 🙂

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  18. Quote from someone of that radio site: ”Ritchie’s f’ing magic, he wears a magic hat, he could of signed for West Ham, but he said no f*ck that, he wants to play for Rafa in the famous black and white, and when we win the championship we’ll sing this song all night.”

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  21. Shamrock:
    Quote from someone of that radio site: ”Ritchie’s f’ing magic, he wears a magic hat, he could of signed for West Ham, but he said no f*ck that, he wants to play for Rafa in the famous black and white, and when we win the championship we’ll sing this song all night.”

    BATTY had that on Facebook last week,someone is copying him lol 🙂

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  27. I’m watching the Norwich match while listening to the Toon. Norwich playing well. It will be a tough match for us I think..

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  36. Well comfortably into the next round of the cup… Why didn’t we do this on Saturday. I’d have rather had the 3 points. But happy to get through. Get the winning mentality back.

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  37. Not yet Stewie mate but we’re getting there. Lovely goals from Ritchie and Gouffy. Another clean sheet as well.

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  40. Comprehensive. Got the job done – not sure whether it’s because we improved or wolves used up everything on Saturday.

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  41. ”Newcastle are at promotion rivals Aston Villa on Saturday and Wolves are at home to Brentford.”

    Villa are already 7 points behind us. They best beat us on the weekend or they can forget the top 6.

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  43. We look so much better with Goof & Diame in the side IMO – and with a more physical forward over Gayle.
    Rafa needs to get a settled 11 IMO and have the likes of Perez & Gayle as impact subs unless suspension or injury hits.

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  45. Andy Magpie:
    Comprehensive. Got the job done – not sure whether it’s because we improved or wolves used up everything on Saturday.

    Nah, I think we just turned up this time. Saturday was just a bunch of sleepwalkers.

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  47. Shamrock I Wouldn’t write any team off in this league, especially Villa. I know they might be down on there luck at the moment but even a struggling side can cause an upset. Look at Wolve’s on Saturday. Huddersfield and Norwich are doing extremely well at the moment and even a draw could further the gap between us. I still think will win promotion but not easily.

    On the game tonight good win. I couldn’t find a link to watch it unfortunately.

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  49. Much better result… who said the the championship teams are shown on tv a fair bit? Was there more coverage last time we were in the fizzy?

    reckon we’ll beat villa. Their defence is poor. 4 point from the next two games I think.

    It would be nice to beat Norwich after they scored in the dying seconds last season

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  50. Gash – it’s a while ago now, but I’m sure I managed to find our championship matches easier when we were last in the CC. Strange, not sure whether it’s due to loads of the sites closing or a lack of coverage… Always struggle for cup ties though.

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  51. Goofy’s goal was immense .Scoring that beauty and missing the one from three yards sums him up quite well 😆

    Ritchie’s goal was good work as well, we finally have an actual winger who is willing to run into the box from an angle and slot it past the keeper. It’s been about 8 years hasn’t it?

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  52. So when is the draw then? I’m ready for the next round. I suppose we’ll have to wait until after today’s matches but then we need to know who we’re going to beat next! 😀

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  53. GeordieTwo:
    So when is the draw then? I’m ready for the next round. I suppose we’ll have to wait until after today’s matches but then we need to know who we’re going to beat next!

    Immediately following today’s matches

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  55. Keep Gouffy and Murphy in there for Villa. No more mucking about with Perez. He will have to prove himself but we need points right now.

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  56. Well it feels good to be in the draw for the last 16. Can’t remember the last time we pit in any effort to make an impression in a Cup.

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  57. Sham: it shows how starved/desperate for success we are. When Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U or even Liverpool win the League Cup or FA Cup it feels like an anticlimax to them. Van Gaal won the FA Cup and was sacked. I think Wenger has won a couple of FA Cups recently and there are always calls for him to be sacked.

    We might even have a chance this year because Rafa likes to win stuff.

    In my lifetime we have won the Fairs Cup and I was too young to even know what it was. I am not sure if it was even televised live. I know we didn’t have a colour TV until like 1974 so if it was shown it would have been black and white with Kenneth Wilstenholme.

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  58. True Eric. I’d be very happy just to reach the last 8 to be honest. Even the last 16 feels good. A win would be epic but that’s just a dream that does not happen to the Toon. ?

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  59. Eric Sykes:
    Sham: it shows how starved/desperate for success we are. When Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U or even Liverpool win the League Cup or FA Cup it feels like an anticlimax to them. Van Gaal won the FA Cup and was sacked. I think Wenger has won a couple of FA Cups recently and there are always calls for him to be sacked.

    We might even have a chance this year because Rafa likes to win stuff.

    In my lifetime we have won the Fairs Cup and I was too young to even know what it was. I am not sure if it was even televised live. I know we didn’t have a colour TV until like 1974 so if it was shown it would have been black and white with Kenneth Wilstenholme.

    I had a DVDs of both legs of the fairs cup,but I gave it to worky on the other site to put on for the fans but it’s gone bye bye 🙁 🙁

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  60. Eric
    I watched the first leg of the fairs cup final at SJP which we won 3-0.
    I don’t think it was televised.
    The return leg was not televised but I listened to it on the radio and if I remember correctly it was only the second half that was on the radio. We were losing 2-0 at half time and went on to win the game 3-2 so I heard all of the goals that mattered.

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  62. Pardsy: “if I’m honest I love a cup run as much as making up an excuse for the last loss. It’s two sides of the same coin for me.” 😯

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  65. This is a lovely day of footy! We could see West Jam, Sunderland, Palace and ManU all go out of the cup!!! I know, it’s not likely with ManU especially….. But still.

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  73. west ham v Chelsea 😆
    manure v man city 😆
    Easy ride for Arsenal v Reading
    Pool v Spuds
    Bristol City v Hull
    Leeds v Norwich , that’s Norwich ok
    Toon V preston get in
    Saints v Scum

    Very kind Draw to us that

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