Wolves vs Newcastle match banter
Posted on October 1st, 2011 | 82 Comments |
Hello, good afternoon and welcome to today’s match banter thread for Wolverhampton Wanderers against Newcastle United.
For more detailed information about today’s game, see Jimbob’s excellent match preview.
On paper this should be a low scoring game and I could see no goals at all from my reading of the tea leaves this morning, although maybe that’s because I use tea bags.
I’ve been zapped by particles of optimism from Betelgeuse today though and went for a 2-1 win to us in the Prediction Competition this week, so I guess I’ll have to stick with that. Incidentally, ‘sirjasontoon’ still leads the competition and ‘El Toro’ had the cheek to knock me down to third place last week.
Ahead of the game, Alan Pardew has been insisting that we are not ‘favourites’:
“We cannot go into this game as favourites in terms of if you were a betting man
“If you were looking at the game on form then yes, we should win the game. But the Premier League throws the form book out of the window at times, and Wolves are the type who upset that.
“Their work-rate, their commitment to the cause, they have got good players in there, and it will be a difficult game.”
Meanwhile, coming off the back of a run of defeats, Wolves manager Mich McCarthy says:
“We want to stop that run of defeats because that can continue.
“We don’t want to be going into the break with four defeats on the bounce.
“Newcastle are a good team. They’ll be coming here full of confidence and, as usual, will have plenty of supporters. It will be a great atmosphere.”
Team News
Wolves (4-4-2): Wayne Hennessey; Richard Stearman, Christophe Berra, Roger Johnson (c), Stephen Ward; Matt Jarvis, Karl Henry, Jamie O’Hara, Stephen Hunt; Steven Fletcher, Kevin Doyle.
Subs: Dorus De Vries, Matt Doherty, Ronald Zubar, Adlene Guedioura, Dave Edwards, Adam Hammill, Sam Vokes.
Newcastle United (4-4-2): Tim Krul (G), Danny Simpson, Steven Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini (C), Ryan Taylor, Gabriel Obertan, Yohan Cabaye, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez, Leon Best, Demba Ba.
Subs: Rob Elliot, Davide Santon, Danny Guthrie, Sylvain Marveaux, Sammy Ameobi, Hatem Ben Arfa, Peter Lovenkrands.
Howay the lads!
We haven’t won at Molineux since September 1958.
Didn’t know that one until now.