Nick Woltemade earns Newcastle United first Premier League win

The latest North East sport headlines, from Daniel Wales.

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00:00Newcastle United finally won their first game of the Premier League season on

00:04Saturday afternoon at St James's Park with a 1-0 win over Wolverhampton

00:09Wanderers courtesy of a debut strike from German forward Nick Vultimata who

00:15recently arrived from Stuttgart. It was Wolves though who had started the game

00:19in more dynamic fashion and they almost went ahead within the first 10 seconds

00:24of the match forcing Nick Pope into a good save. They then had another chance

00:29from the resulting corner but when they didn't score within that first period of

00:33the game it allowed Newcastle to grow in confidence and ultimately the goal came

00:38in the 29th minute when Jerkip Murphy's cross into the box was met by the head

00:43of Vultimata who put the ball into the back of the net. Newcastle then had

00:47chances to extend their lead in particular from Sandro Tonali who shot on the

00:52stroke of halftime struck the upright. Tonali himself was well praised following

00:57the full time whistle for his performance during the game and although Wolves did

01:00have some pressure towards the end of the 19 minutes Newcastle ultimately held

01:05firm to claim their first three points of the season ahead of the Champions League

01:09getting underway. As for Sunderland well they picked up a useful point away from

01:16home against Crystal Palace and were indebted to their keeper Robin Roofs for the

01:21saves that he made during the game to keep the score at 0-0 and was well praised by

01:25Regis Labris. I think we need players at that level in the Premier League otherwise

01:32we won't exist so for me it's not a surprise I'm really pleased and happy

01:37with his performance of course but not surprised and I'm sure that you have

01:42other performances like that thanks to the team because to make these saves you

01:48need the defenders you need the block you need to make it up for the opponent and

01:53when you are a goalkeeper you have to make the final save. I think we prepared this

01:58game properly and the pitcher was the pitcher expected during the week and we

02:06played a good first half dominating the ball but it's not enough you have to

02:13create chances.