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Updates from the 2pm BST kick-off at Molineux‘He has a gift’ – the making of Matheus NunesGet in touch! You can email Daniel or tweet himEddie Howe confirms they were waiting until the last minute hoping Isaak would get his work permit but it didn’t arrive, and that Guimaraes picked up a niggle in midweek. He says Wood has never let him down, scored and played well in midfield, and that his team will need the solid attitude they’ve displayed so far this season. Wolves have, he reckons, got some dangerous attackers, but if his lot get themselves going, they’ve got plenty of firepower themselves.On which point, it’s not just Longstaff – that Newcastle midfield is not unlike those favoured by Jürgen Klopp before Thiago arrived, three serious athletes able to out-run and out-strength pretty much any other trio. And Wolves’ might just lack a bit physically, because, though Moutinho and Neves are fine passers, they’re neither as fast nor as powerful as the men who’ll be setting about them, and Nunes is still acclimatising. Newcastle might still struggle to create – unlike Liverpool, they don’t have full-backs as good as Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson – but if they dominate physically, they’ll hope to get Alain Saint-Maximin enough of the ball to do damage. Continue reading...