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Here’s Will Unwin’s report from the mizzle at Molineux.
Where did that result leave those teams? Answer: not where they’d like.
Nobody troubled the scorers at Molineux today.
Peter Oh gets in touch: “It’s an exciting day for Manés. The Wolves one had a chance to put one past the Pope, and the Senegal one will get a crack at Bono in the Afcon final.”
Chris Parasevkas gets in touch: “In isolation a goalless draw isn’t a complete disaster but outside of the routinely outstanding Hall, it’s hard to think of any Newcastle players who really stood out, and the first half display was awful.
“This squad still feels like a work in progress after a disruptive offseason. The ingredients are there but the combimations aren’t quite right. A dour nil-nil draw: it was always going to happen on the night / morning day of holidays but at least blood was spilled (Trippier).”
ShareFull-time: Wolves 0-0 Newcastle
A fair result considering how few chances both teams created. Wolves look far better, far happier, and retain their 2026 unbeaten run. They are 14 from safety. Newcastle blew the chance to climb above Manchester United, and frankly, had no right to claim the three points they needed. They were poor, in truth.
90+6 min: The last knockings, and Bruno gets a chance but swings and slices wide. That was surely the last of it…and so it proves. We end goalless.
90+4 min: Mane loses the ball in a dangerous position. Bruno scampers into the box and falls over. VAR waves away any penalty claim. It’s bitty, it’s nervy, with seconds ticking away.
90+3 min: Hugo Bueno, who has had a good game, makes a fine tackle on Wissa and wins a throw as a result.
90+2 min: Joelinton clears the ball behind as bodies collide with each other. The next corner is cleared rather more easily.
90+1 min: Strand Larsen, on another counter, forces a corner, and a cheer from the crowd. They couldn’t, could they?
90 min: Mane’s cross to the back post is promising but Strand Larsen can’t get to it, or at least find a shirt in old gold….six minutes have been added on.
Updated at 10.50 EST
89 min: Rodrigo Gomes decides to go it alone, speeding through the Newcastle defence and Botman, unnecessarily, chops him down.
88 min: Paul Weir gets in touch: “In response to Niall Mullen (72 minutes) I would like to submit evidence of how much fun I am at parties: there has never been a match between Atalanta and Roma that finished 0-0…..I’ll be in the corner talking to myself. “
Updated at 10.48 EST
87 min: Joelinton heads over, rising highest from a corner. Newcastle haven’t created a high enough quality of chances. To compound that, Wissa is offside. It’s been horribly disjointed.
86 min: Wolves change: Rodrigo Gomes on, Hwang off.
85 min: Strand Larsen gets too excitable and fouls Hall. In comes the free-kick, and Sa is asked to make a double save, first from Bruno, and next from Joelinton, and the keeper keeps out both Brazilians.
83 min: Applause as Strand Larsen chases down Bruno. The fans have forgiven him – and his colleagues –for now. Funny what showing willing can do to the popularity ratings.
82 min: Hall has to deflect behind, listening to his goalkeeper who tells him to knock Hugo Bueno’s ball away from danger. Bueno’s kick is poor. Newcastle clear with ease.
80 min: We enter the witching hour with Newcastle far more composed on the ball. Can Wolves make use of Strand Larsen?
79 min: Hall and Trippier debate what to do, and Trippier takes it, and it drifts…just wide. That required a Roberto Carlos to bend back in.
78 min: More gasps as a ball meant for Mane evades its target. Mosquera is now booked for a sliding foul on Harvey Barnes. That’s his seventh in 13 games, an impressive tally.
Harvey Barnes is challenged by Yerson Mosquera. Photograph: Carl Recine/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 10.40 EST
76 min: Few desperate sounds from Wolves fans. They have got used to not losing. Gasps as Wissa misses a cross from Barnes that really was there for the taking.
75 min: The pressure has been all Newcastle’s since those changes. Hugo Bueno is down, and that slows the momentum. He was dumped on the pitch by his colleagues in a Martinelli-like fashion.
73 min: Bruno has been very quiet for Newcastle but at last gets involved. Though like his teammates, he cannot pick the lock on the Wolves defence.
72 min: Niall Mullen gets in touch: “Apropos of nothing in particular, do you remember when you’d tune in to Football Italia in the 1990s to watch the best league in the world at the time and you’d get Atalanta 0-0 Roma nil?”
Yes, so many strands to draw with the rise and fall of Serie A.
71 min: Wolves change: Joao Gomes off, Jhon Arias on.
71 min: Chris Paravsevkas gets in touch: “Eddie Howe often speaks about wanting his teams to get into a goal-scoring position in as little passes as possible. Very little evidence of that here, albeit in conditions that require a bit of extra care. Perhaps someone with a more direct threat (Wissa?) might be well suited…”
70 min: Newcastle go again, and win a corner. Sa is fouled so that comes to naught. Joelinton shoved him over, a fairly pointless thing to do in the circumstances.
68 min: Jose Sa has not had to make a save yet. Newcastle have been increasingly unconvincing.
67 min: Wholesale Toon changes: Woltemade off, Tonali off, Gordon off: Elanga, Miley and Wissa ON.
65 min: Jorgen Strand Larsen, who Newcastle wanted in the summer, comes on. Arokodare departs, having run himself into the ground.
64 min: Another rubbish corner, and then Botman is found to be offside from the second ball.
63 min: Both benches looking to make change. The deadlock must be broken somehow. Tchatchoua meanwhile steps in to block a ball that Joelinton really could have done better with.
61 min: Wolves’ turn for a head of steam. Crosses from Tchatchoua and Bueno come in, and Newcastle do well to clear. The defences well on top here.
60 min: Hall is in the wars again, and is rolling around after a challenge by Tchatchoua. Terrible free-kick, and Sa claims – but doesn’t punch it. Newcastle with a head of steam. Tonali has a shot, Woltemade attempts a header but eventually a shove brings it all to its end.
Woltemade attempts a shot on goal. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAShare
Updated at 10.24 EST
58 min: Lewis Hall goes down and does that thumping the ground thing that is supposed to signal he has an injury but has become part of the theatrical armoury of players. He gets up soon enough. Next, Tonali is booked for smashing into a breaking Andre.
56 min: Gordon throws his arms up to ask if anyone will show for him. Wolves are back in shape and holding firm. Wolves get a chance to counter but Krejci’s ball comes as a disappointment to Mane.
55 min: Eddie Howe and Jason Tindall are up on their feet and not impressed by their team’s performance. Newcastle are yet to get started in this half.
53 min: It takes Botman’s intervention to stop Hwang cutting in to have a clear sight of goal. He didn’t seem to have much idea of how he managed that.
52 min: Tripper comes back on as Andre, and then Gomes create a headed chance for Mosquera to head over the bar. He’s supposed to be the centre-half. remember.
50 min: Trippier has a nasty cut in the middle of his forehead. Lewis Miley is warming up. Trippier is patched up like he’s taken a punch from Tyson Fury, and will play on. He’s a tough, willing sort.
Kieran Trippier of Newcastle United receives medical treatment. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 10.12 EST
48 min: Trippier and Harvey Barnes miss each other’s wavelength and then, in a tangle with Mane, Trippier is down. VAR has a look, but that was clearly an accident. Mane ended up treading on Trippier’s face.
47 min: Oof! Mane has taken one to the unmentionables. He may now have a future as a soprano. That looked painful but he soldiers on, with a wide-legged gait.
46 min: Back underway, and there’s been no half-time changes.
It’s sacking season, though so far only in Germany today. More to follow?
Updated at 10.03 EST
Half-time: Wolves 0-0 Newcastle
An even half and one where Wolves more than held their own. Newcastle cannot yet find the way through.
Updated at 09.49 EST
45+1 min: A fine tackle from Santiago Bueno stops Harvey Barnes in his tracks. Off goes Mane in the time left – just 60 seconds – and then Arokodare sets up Hugo Bueno, who cuts in and shoots just wide. That was close. And that’s the end of the half.
45 min: A Wolves break with Joao Gomes, Arokodare is the target, and Newcastle hurry it behind. From the corner, Mosquera snatches at the ball, when he had much more time.
43 min: Sa gets lucky as the ball drops, Joelinton losing his bearings, as did Hugo Bueno, and then the Wolves keeper lies, with relief, on the ball.
42 min: Better from Newcastle whose dominance comes from Sa making a silly punch out when he really ought to have caught the ball.
41 min: Newcastle seek to make their possession more than sterile. Botman and Tonali are pushing on and on. Joelinton is asked to win it back when the ball falls loose.
Tolu Arokodare and Sven Botman compete for the ball. Photograph: Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 10.04 EST
39 min: Andre is the latest Wolves player to dig in and dig out the defence. Woltemade is penalised for a foul. He’s looking frustrated, the big man.
38 min: Tonali drops deep in search of space. Wolves are squeezing Newcastle back. Gordon is the latest to be frustrated as his cross is claimed by Sa. He had nowhere else to put it.
36 min: Gordon, who has been quiet, wins a corner. Woltemade will be the target. Trippier takes and Arokodare heads away. Wolves players are making contributions at both ends. Real contrast to what came before.
Kieran Trippier of Newcastle United. Photograph: Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 10.01 EST
35 min: Kari Tulinius gets in touch: “Going by the noises from the stands, it’s a lot more fun being a Wolves fan now than it was before the turn of the year. They might even get to release a proper Molineux Roar, if things go well for the Old Gold. You gotta love a stadium with a namesake sound.”
33 min: Trippier has another free-kick chance from the right, to be whipped in with his usual velocity. Wolves clear it again, Mosquera doing the work again. He’s been excellent.
32 min: Gasps as Hugo Bueno cannot reach a Mane pass inside that was overhit. Even local heroes have feet of clay.
Hugo Bueno. Photograph: Brett Patzke/WWFC/Wolves/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 09.42 EST