Newcastle Beats Wolves For First EPL Home Win Since December. Rock Star Knopfler On Hand

NEWCASTLE, England: Newcastle supervisor Eddie Howe managed to get a tune out of his crew in entrance of rock star Mark Knopfler in a 3-0 English Premier League win over Wolverhampton, whose three-game profitable run got here to an finish on Saturday.

Knopfler, the frontman of Dire Straits, was at St. James’ Park to unveil a charity recording of the theme from Local Hero — the tune to which the Magpies run out. He witnessed Newcastle’s first residence win within the league since Dec. 16, courtesy of Alexander Isak’s fifteenth purpose of the season, Anthony Gordon’s tenth of the marketing campaign and substitute Tino Livramento’s first for the membership.

Howe got here up with the right game-plan, sucking Wolves in by permitting them possession after which hitting them on the break in devastating style. The guests rallied late within the recreation however have been unable to discover a well past keeper Martin Dubravka in entrance of a crowd of 52,206 at a wintry St James’.

Newcastle climbed to eighth place and is nicely in competition to qualify for Europe for the second straight season — even whether it is unlikely to be within the Champions League this time.

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