Has there even been a better time for Newcastle United to play Wolves? Have a look at this | OneFootball

Newcastle United have Wolves next.

This has been a strange fixture in recent times.

A visit to Molineux having a very familiar look to it season after season.

Wolves got promoted in the 2017/18 season.

So what has happened since when it is Wolves v Newcastle United?

These are the last six meetings at Molineux:

Wolves 1 Newcastle 1 (2018/19)

Wolves 1 Newcastle 1 (2019/20)

Wolves 1 Newcastle 1 (2020/21)

Wolves 2 Newcastle 1 (2021/22)

Wolves 1 Newcastle 1 (2022/23)

Wolves 2 Newcastle 2 (2023/24)

As you can see, it does look cut and paste, time after time.

If you take out Steve Bruce’s very final Newcastle United away match and defeat…

You are left with five draws and four of them ending up the same scoreline, 1-1.

Now before you rush off to put on a bet at the bookies that can’t lose, that is basically just buying money, have a look at these stats.

These are the last six months of Premier League matches for Wolves:

Villa 2 Wolves 0 (30 March 2024)

Burnley 1 Wolves 1

Wolves 1 West Ham 2

Forest 2 Wolves 2

Wolves 0 Arsenal 2

Wolves 0 Bournemouth 1

Wolves 2 Luton 1

Man City 5 Wolves 1

Wolves 1 Palace 3

Liverpool 2 Wolves 0

Arsenal 2 Wolves 0

Wolves 2 Chelsea 6

Forest 1 Wolves 1 (31 August 2024)

The last six months of Wolves matches in the Premier League gives these collective results:

Played 13 Won 1 Drawn 3 Lost 9 Goals Scored 11 Goals Conceded 30

Has there ever been a better time to play Wolves?

Their only win in these last six months of Premier League football was at home to Luton who were all but already relegated by then.

The only other times they haven’t lost a Premier League game in this time period, was when drawing against Burnley, who also were relegated last season, plus two draws at Forest. All the other games they have lost and conceding on average around two and a half goals in each of the thirteen matches.

When you consider as well that apart from that narrow win over relegated Luton, they have won the other five of their last six Premier League matches at Molineux and conceded 14 goals in these five defeats, clearly this is a struggling team/club.

Reading comments from the Wolves fans ahead of playing Newcastle United, a lot of unhappiness with the club’s owners, manager, players and so on. Their first home match of the season against Chelsea didn’t sell out and it appears this NUFC match is going to be the same, despite the capacity at Molineux only just over 31,000.

Having lost key players Neto and Kilman for a combined £100m+ and then spending significantly less than that on incoming signings, Eddie Howe’s players should come into this game knowing that if they play well, this is a match they can very much win.