After Newcastle impressed when holding Manchester City to a 3-3 draw last weekend, the unbeaten Magpies must now try to follow up with a victory at Wolves.

It has been a good week for Eddie Howe's side, who earned plenty of plaudits for preventing champions City making it three wins from three last Sunday before they significantly strengthened their attacking options by signing Alexander Isak for a reported club-record £63m fee from Real Sociedad.

Howe's men are unbeaten after three games with one win and two draws, while Wolves, in contrast, have had a disappointing start, picking up just one point from their first three outings.

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Isak could be handed his debut after completing his move from Real Sociedad on Friday and his arrival tempers the news regular Newcastle frontman Callum Wilson is set to be out for at least a couple of weeks with a hamstring injury.

Dan Burn is set to be available for the visitors after he missed the midweek Carabao Cup win at Tranmere because of concussion protocol but Emil Krafth is out after the defender was forced off with a knee injury at Prenton Park.

Wolves striker Raul Jimenez is pushing for his first Premier League start of the season, having scored in the midweek League Cup win against Preston.

Boss Bruno Lage made five changes to his line-up for the 2-1 success over PNE, with another man who came in and has yet to start a league game this term, Adama Traore, also getting on the scoresheet.

The former Barcelona loanee will hope to have done enough to start, while Nelson Semedo proved his fitness in midweek and is also in contention to be in Lage's XI for the Molineux clash.

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Newcastle kicked off the campaign with a 2-0 win over newly-promoted Nottingham Forest before being held to a goalless draw by Brighton.

Last weekend's 3-3 draw against City was a thriller, with the Magpies 3-1 up thanks to goals from Miguel Almiron, Wilson and Keiran Trippier early in the second half before Pep Guardiola's side recovered.

Wolves finally got their first win of the new season when beating Preston in the League Cup but they have only earned a point from their first three Premier League matches — a 0-0 draw at home against Fulham either side of narrow defeats at Leeds and Tottenham.

A familiar problem has affected Lage's side so far in 2022-23, with a lack of goals a worry.

Daniel Podence's strike against Leeds is their only Premier League goal and the Black Country outfit were often blunt in the final third last term, scoring just 38 times, with only the relegated trio of Norwich, Watford and Burnley notching fewer.

This fixture at Molineux has finished 1-1 in three of the last four seasons but the Magpies will fancy their chances of continuing a pattern of finding the back of the net against Wolves, having scored in all 14 of their Premier League games against Sunday's opponents.

Prediction

Wolves will surely offer more threat if Traore and Jimenez start but under Lage they often adopt a more conservative approach, with keeping the opposition out usually their first concern.

That could be difficult against a confident Magpies outfit, who managed 10 shots on target against Forest on the opening day before registering six on target against the champions last time out.

Allan Saint-Maximin was outstanding as a creative force in the 3-3 draw and will now be tasked with unlocking Wolves' defence, while Isak will be desperate to get off to a good start if he is selected.

Amid their eye-catching summer transfer business, Newcastle have the look of a side who want to be challenging for a top-six finish and, after making an unbeaten start, they can go to Molineux and earn a narrow victory to extend the early-season optimism.