{"id":154408,"date":"2025-09-13T17:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154408\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:58:07","slug":"newcastle-1-0-wolves-sep-13-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154408\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle 1-0 Wolves (Sep 13, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Woltemade<\/a> paid off the first instalment of his \u00a364.9 million ($87.5m) transfer fee as he headed Newcastle United<\/a> to a first Premier League<\/a> win of the season on his debut.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Germany<\/a> international needed just 29 minutes to find the back of the net for the first time at St. James’ Park, some nine minutes quicker than Alexander Isak<\/a>, the man he was signed in part to replace, managed it on his first outing for the Magpies at Liverpool<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

For all a 1-0 victory was deserved, Eddie Howe’s men had to grind it out as Wolves, still to collect a single point this season, fought for some reward and, but for the excellence of goalkeeper Nick Pope<\/a>, who made two vital early saves, they might have got some.<\/p>\n

Newcastle will need to be significantly better if they are to emerge from their opening Champions League encounter with Barcelona<\/a> on Thursday night with something to show for their efforts, but it was the result that mattered and Howe will feel the season is belatedly up and running.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nick Woltemade made the perfect start to his Newcastle career.<\/p>\n

If Newcastle had hoped for a fast start, they were fortunate not to concede twice inside the opening minutes when first Rodrigo Gomes<\/a> saw his blistering shot tipped away by Pope before Hwang Hee-chan forced a second save from the resulting corner.<\/p>\n

However, Jacob Murphy<\/a> curled a fifth-minute attempt just wide from Woltemade’s lay-off and, with the former Stuttgart frontman operating as their fulcrum, the Magpies started to make an impression.<\/p>\n

Keeper Sam Johnstone<\/a> pulled off a fine reaction save to deny Murphy from point-blank range after Joelinton<\/a> had flicked on Tino Livramento’s 13th-minute throw-in, but with Andr\u00e9<\/a> and Jo\u00e3o Gomes<\/a> enjoying a measure of control in the middle of the field, the visitors were more than making a game of it.<\/p>\n

Woltemade’s big moment arrived with 29 minutes gone when he rose above Emmanuel Agbadou<\/a> at the far post to head Murphy’s cross firmly past Johnstone to formally announce himself on Tyneside.<\/p>\n

Wolves might have been level four minutes before the break when the impressive Hugo Bueno<\/a>, not for the first time, did well down the right and crossed for Rodrigo Gomes, who steered a glancing header wide of the far post.<\/p>\n

But Murphy whistled a dipping strike just past Johnstone’s right post two minutes later after Woltemade’s industry and Bruno Guimar\u00e3es<\/a>‘ vision had allowed Kieran Trippier<\/a> to set him up.<\/p>\n

Sandro Tonali<\/a> was unfortunate not to make it 2-0 in the fifth minute of first-half stoppage time when his skidding left-footed drive came back off the foot of a post with Johnstone rooted to the spot.<\/p>\n

The Magpies returned after the break with their tails still up and pinned the visitors back deep inside their own half, with full-backs Trippier and Livramento seeing plenty of the ball in advanced positions.<\/p>\n

An increasingly scrappy affair remained in the balance as long as the hosts could not find a second goal, although Harvey Barnes<\/a> fired over after running on to Guimaraes<\/a>‘ clever 74th-minute flick.<\/p>\n

Wolves rallied as time ran down but, although they applied pressure, Pope remained largely untested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Woltemade paid off the first instalment of his \u00a364.9 million ($87.5m) transfer fee as he headed Newcastle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-154408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}