Newcastle United welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to St James’ Park in the Premier League on Saturday with both clubs looking for their first win of the season.
After two draws on the road and a gutting late defeat to Liverpool here, Newcastle are healing from a difficult summer on and off the field, while Wolves’ early-season fears have come true, as they sit bottom.
If the off-field Alexander Isak saga was not bad enough, Newcastle have been extremely underwhelming in the first month of the season, with their first three matches yielding no wins.
The Magpies have become just the fifth Premier League side in history to draw their first two away games 0-0 in a season, doing so at Aston Villa and Leeds United, with the heartbreaking late defeat to Liverpool the most notable of their three results so far.
It is just the second time Newcastle have ever started with two goalless away outings - the last coming in 1901 - and they have remarkably drawn more games 0-0 this campaign than they had in the last two entire seasons combined (one).
Those results have contributed to a five-game winless run in the Premier League, meaning they are staring down the barrel at their longest streak without victory in three years.
You have to go back even further, February 2021, for the last time Newcastle lost three in a row at St James’ but that is the fate that could await if they fall to defeat in this one.
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