Eddie Howe will hope a late 2-1 win picked up over the weekend by his Newcastle United troops spurs his facet onto a constructive patch of kind within the Premier League.
It has been a bumpy marketing campaign to date for the Toon, with three wins, three attracts, and three defeats collected in league motion. However, with two house wins on the spin now within the difficult terrain of the top-flight, the time is definitely proper for the Magpies to make strides up the early league standings, away from their present middle-of-the-road eleventh place.
Bruno Guimaraes can be showered with reward come the full-time whistle in opposition to Fulham, as his fast considering to be alert to a spill from Bernd Leno noticed him slot house a late rebound to seal a 2-1 win.
However, he is not the one star able to such joyous moments in Howe’s gifted camp, with Nick Woltemade protruding as one other noticeable vibrant spark, even when his new facet hasn’t been selecting up victories galore since he arrived from Stuttgart.
Why Woltemade is already key for Newcastle
The 6-foot-6 menace did not get on the scoresheet in opposition to Marco Silva’s guests, however he was nonetheless vigorous in spurts in opposition to the Cottagers.
Certainly, Woltemade would smack the submit with an effort that heading goalbound after simply 4 minutes had been performed, with the commanding quantity 27 additionally placing his towering body to good use when shoving off Fulham defenders to play within the likes of Anthony Gordon and others subsequent to him within the attacking positions.
Woltemade was on the coronary heart of Harvey Barnes’ strike mid-week, too, with an audacious flick ending within the ex-Leicester Metropolis man confidently firing house this effort within the Champions League.
That is earlier than you even point out that the scientific 23-year-old additionally has 4 Premier League targets subsequent to his title already, with the choice to fork out a steep £69m on the ex-Bundesliga purpose machine seeking to now be a wise one, notably as Newcastle desperately wanted a potent marksman to fill the outlet left behind by Alexander Isak.
Nonetheless, as a lot as Woltemade has stood out as an influential presence to date, he is not the one ace in assault able to altering video games at a second’s discover, with this different gem at Howe’s disposal additionally now being lauded for being a game-changing spark.
Howe has unearthed a brand new “game-changer”
Howe very a lot had the choices on his substitutes bench to thank for the Fulham recreation being turned on its head within the last moments.
The 47-year-old appeared to each Fabian Schar and Sandro Tonali late on as accidents and drained legs crept into his XI, whereas the ex-AFC Bournemouth boss was additionally well-equipped to throw on William Osula instead of Woltemade for the ultimate exchanges, understanding that he would terrorise the away facet’s fatigued defence together with his unbounded vitality, with journalist Jordan Cronin even going so far as to state that he was a “recreation changer” on the day.
With out the Dane’s scary vitality, Newcastle may properly have simply settled for a share of the factors.
As an alternative, with Osula managing to tally up two pictures from his short-lived cameo and two recoveries of the ball to push his fading staff up the pitch, a much-needed win was dramatically secured, with the “chaotic” 22-year-old the “good” participant to mount such a late comeback, in response to Newcastle-based author Thomas Hammond.
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Osula’s Newcastle numbers |
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Stat |
Osula |
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Video games performed |
31 |
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Minutes performed |
693 minutes |
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Objectives scored |
5 |
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Assists |
3 |
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The Denmark U21 worldwide has needed to grow to be content material with being an influence participant for the Toon, with 34 of his 44 Premier League appearances thus far on Tyneside coming from off the bench.
Nonetheless, it fits the forceful quantity 18’s recreation, with Osula even being referred to beforehand as a “poor man’s Haaland” by his ex-teammate in Curtis Davies, for a way harmful he will be in a flash.
Osula will simply wish to preserve plugging away at St James’ Park, with the attacker who works “tirelessly” for his staff’s trigger, as Howe put it, very a lot within the Newcastle good books at the moment, subsequent to Woltemade.
