• Follow the action from the 4pm GMT match at St James’ Park• Newcastle v Wolves: match preview• Email Scott with your thoughts on today’s game 3.49pm GMT Rafa speaks! “The fans realise the main thing is to support the team. The way they support the team from the first minute until the last has been crucial for us in the last couple of years, and hopefully will be crucial for us this year. We know Wolves are quite strong and solid in defence, and are good in counter attack. So we have to try to stay on the front foot, but not make the mistakes we made against West Ham. We will try to match them, and see if we can be a little bit better than them!” 3.39pm GMT Nuno Espirito Santo talks! “The way we work as a team, compact and organised, we have to maintain standards. This is one of the things we must improve, to become consistent. We must play and reveal our talent, maintaining our high standards. It was an intense game on Wednesday, and this will be a difficult game too.” 3.33pm GMT Look at this little scamp! A dog wearing Newcastle colours, pictured pacing the streets outside St James’ Park before the match. Isn’t he a sweetheart? I hope they let him in. After all, he’s almost certainly better house-trained than Newcastle’s notorious fireplace-bothering owner. 3.20pm GMT Pre-match reading. Our main man Daniel Taylor on the fallout of the cancellation of the anti-Ashley protest. Related: Crunch time for Newcastle fans desperate to see return of human touch | Daniel Taylor 3.13pm GMT Newcastle make three changes to the side that drew with Everton midweek. Ciaran Clark, Matt Ritchie and Ayoze Perez replace Jacob Murphy, Javier Manquillo and the suspended Fabian Schar. Wolves make three changes to the team that saw off Chelsea on Wednesday night. Ruben Neves, Adama Traore and Helder Costa replace Joao Moutinho, 18-year-old prodigy Morgan Gibbs-White and Raul Jimenez, all of whom drop to the bench. 3.02pm GMT Newcastle United: Dubravka, Yedlin, Fernandez, Lascelles, Clark, Ritchie, Atsu, Diame, Ki, Perez, Rondon.Subs: Dummett, Muto, Kenedy, Manquillo, Joselu, Longstaff, Woodman.Wolverhampton Wanderers: Rui Patricio, Bennett, Coady, Boly, Doherty, Neves, Saiss, Ruben Vinagre, Helder Costa, Traore, Jota.Subs: Ivan Cavaleiro, Jimenez, Gibbs-White, John Ruddy, Joao Moutinho, Dendoncker, Leo Bonatini. 1.59pm GMT This particular fixture has, in days gone by, ended 5-1, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4 and 8-0. How relevant is that? Well, those games were played in 1975, 1903, 1959, 1960 and 1905, so we’ll leave that up to you. But what we will say is this: today’s match is unlikely to be quite so spectacular. Newcastle have only scored 12 goals in 15 matches this season; Wolves have managed just three more. You’ll thank me for tempting fate so brazenly when this ends 5-5.To be fair, though, we can spin this another way. Newcastle are in a pretty decent run of form, having won three of their last five. They’re coming off the back of a very decent draw at fast-improving Everton. A three-goal thumping at home by West Ham distorts the picture, but on the whole they’ve been doing well of late. Wolves meanwhile broke a six-game winless streak in midweek with a stunning victory over Chelsea. So both teams will feel confident enough. And confidence means goals, right? You’ll curse me for mentioning all this when it ends 0-0. Related: Newcastle United v Wolverhampton Wanderers: match preview Continue readingreadfullarticle
