Wolves suffer nightmare 127-year first as Newcastle inflict another defeat

Wolves have made unwanted club history this afternoon with their 1-0 defeat to Newcastle United at St James’ Park. Wanderers fell to a fourth successive Premier League loss to Eddie Howe‘s men to officially seal their worst start to a season ever. Club-record signing Woltemade scored on his debutGetty The club have never lost four times in a row to start the season until now. Newcastle, who had two bids for Wolves striker Jorgen Strand-Larsen rejected, were indebted to the big frontman that arrived instead. The Toon’s £69million club-record signing Nick Woltemade headed home Jacob Murphy’s cross before half-time to open the scoring. The visitors were unable to muster much of a response after the break, as Newcastle claimed their first three points of the season. This result followed a disappointing summer transfer window, with talkSPORT.com placing Wolves last of all 20 clubs in their rankings. Key stars Rayan Ait-Nouri, Matheus Cunha and Nelson Semedo all left this summer, with few incomings welcomed through the doors. Vitor Pereira’s men carried their struggles onto the pitch by starting their campaign with a 4-0 drubbing at home to Manchester City. Wolves were unable to bounce back on matchday two, after suffering a 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth, with Toti Gomes also being sent off. Everton then visited Molineux and edged a five-goal thriller in a 3-2 triumph, which remains the only match Wolves have scored in. To add insult to injury, Strand Larsen was unable to show Newcastle what they missed out on after missing the trip to Tyneside with an Achilles issue. Strand Larsen wanted to join Newcastle, but Wolves kept hold of himGetty Wolves lose a fourth straight game In his absence, Wolves’ summer signing, Tolu Arokodare, led the line in the north east but failed to make an impact. Ahead of the game at Newcastle, club captain Toti issued a rallying cry in which he said: “Of course, we’re not having the beginning to a season that we wanted and that we’ve been training and preparing for in pre-season, so it’s been tough. “I’m not going to say it’s easy to start the season with three losses and zero points, but it’s still early and there’s still a lot of time to improve. “We know that we are capable of being in a much better position than we are right now, and we have the team and the coach, so we can do it. “Maybe the international period was something that we needed. We needed a little break, to stop and correct a few things that we were not doing well. Wolves are rooted to the bottom of the tableGetty “I think maybe this break’s going to help us, and it’s going to hopefully bring better things, because now the window is closed. “It’s not the end of the world. Things don’t look that beautiful for us, but we cannot think negatively, keep positive and keep working hard; we still have a lot of time to improve, and we’re going to do it. “We have the players for that, and we have to keep positive.” Unfortunately for Wolves, those words appear to have not done the trick, with the club rock bottom of the table with a minus seven goal difference. They now head into a massive home game against Leeds, needing to win to ease their relegation fears and ease the pressure on Pereira.

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Wolves suffer nightmare 127-year first as Newcastle inflict another defeat

Wolves have made unwanted club history this afternoon with their 1-0 defeat to Newcastle United at St James’ Park.

Wanderers fell to a fourth successive Premier League loss to Eddie Howe‘s men to officially seal their worst start to a season ever.

Club-record signing Woltemade scored on his debut

The club have never lost four times in a row to start the season until now.

Newcastle, who had two bids for Wolves striker Jorgen Strand-Larsen rejected, were indebted to the big frontman that arrived instead.

The Toon’s £69million club-record signing Nick Woltemade headed home Jacob Murphy’s cross before half-time to open the scoring.

The visitors were unable to muster much of a response after the break, as Newcastle claimed their first three points of the season.

This result followed a disappointing summer transfer window, with talkSPORT.com placing Wolves last of all 20 clubs in their rankings.

Key stars Rayan Ait-Nouri, Matheus Cunha and Nelson Semedo all left this summer, with few incomings welcomed through the doors.

Vitor Pereira’s men carried their struggles onto the pitch by starting their campaign with a 4-0 drubbing at home to Manchester City.

Wolves were unable to bounce back on matchday two, after suffering a 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth, with Toti Gomes also being sent off.

Everton then visited Molineux and edged a five-goal thriller in a 3-2 triumph, which remains the only match Wolves have scored in.

To add insult to injury, Strand Larsen was unable to show Newcastle what they missed out on after missing the trip to Tyneside with an Achilles issue.

Strand Larsen wanted to join Newcastle, but Wolves kept hold of him

Wolves lose a fourth straight game

In his absence, Wolves’ summer signing, Tolu Arokodare, led the line in the north east but failed to make an impact.

Ahead of the game at Newcastle, club captain Toti issued a rallying cry in which he said: “Of course, we’re not having the beginning to a season that we wanted and that we’ve been training and preparing for in pre-season, so it’s been tough.

“I’m not going to say it’s easy to start the season with three losses and zero points, but it’s still early and there’s still a lot of time to improve.

“We know that we are capable of being in a much better position than we are right now, and we have the team and the coach, so we can do it.

“Maybe the international period was something that we needed. We needed a little break, to stop and correct a few things that we were not doing well.

Wolves are rooted to the bottom of the table

“I think maybe this break’s going to help us, and it’s going to hopefully bring better things, because now the window is closed.

“It’s not the end of the world. Things don’t look that beautiful for us, but we cannot think negatively, keep positive and keep working hard; we still have a lot of time to improve, and we’re going to do it.

“We have the players for that, and we have to keep positive.”

Unfortunately for Wolves, those words appear to have not done the trick, with the club rock bottom of the table with a minus seven goal difference.

They now head into a massive home game against Leeds, needing to win to ease their relegation fears and ease the pressure on Pereira.