Nick Woltemade outshining Alexander Isak and winning battle of the…

Nick Woltemade outshining Alexander Isak and winning battle of the…

Welcome to The Radar, a Sky Sports column by which Nick Wright makes use of a mix of data and opinion to shed light on need-to-know tales from up and down the Premier League. This week:

Woltemade’s strong start for Newcastle
Kostoulas being challenged by Hurzeler
A participant to observe this weekend

Woltemade filling Isak void in his personal approach

Nick Woltemade scored his third header of the season in Newcastle’s Carabao Cup win over Spurs on Wednesday. The 6ft 6in striker is proving troublesome to deal with. And not just aerially.

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Newcastle boss Eddie Howe was full of reward for Woltemade on Friday

His tally of six targets in only 760 minutes contains two ingenious flicked finishes, one against Union Saint-Gilloise and an even better one against Brighton. There was a penalty lifted into the top nook against Nottingham Forest as if struck with a pitching wedge.

It is a becoming level of selection for a participant who’s troublesome to outline. Woltemade has the bodily profile to play the function of a targetman. His presence has allowed Newcastle to ship more passes lengthy according to the Premier League’s shift in the direction of directness.

He has scored headed targets against Wolves and Arsenal as effectively Spurs. Not many strikers can declare to have bested Gabriel Magalhaes this season however Woltemade towered over him when scoring Newcastle’s opener against the Gunners in September.

As is changing into more and more clear to his new viewers, though, he’s also a wonderful technician succesful of a light contact in addition to brute pressure. He is snug holding onto the ball in tight areas. He drops deep and pulls large to hyperlink the play. He can even dribble.

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Watch Woltemade’s beautiful flicked end against Brighton

His team-mates definitely worth his all-round contribution. “He is so big, it is a little bit easy for him to score goals with his head but he is a very good player,” said Sandro Tonali after the Spurs game.

“He runs all 90 minutes every time. He plays with us, the midfielders and the defenders. He is the first defender and the first striker.” Eddie Howe added that he “set the tone” for Newcastle’s urgent.

He is already liked by Newcastle supporters. His arrival, for £69m from Stuttgart in the summer season, having beforehand been a goal for Bayern Munich, has helped to make sure that, to this point, at the least, the departed Alexander Isak has not been missed.

It has escaped no person’s consideration that Woltemade has comprehensively outperformed his predecessor, who’s yet to score in the Premier League for Liverpool, his only purpose since his report £125m switch coming in the Carabao Cup against Southampton.

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Yoane Wissa’s injury absence has added to the stress on Woltemade to carry out and he continues to ship. He has more Premier League targets, with 4, than any of the 18 other strikers signed by Premier League golf equipment during a summer season switch window which featured unprecedented spending on forwards.

It is all the more spectacular given he has performed fewer minutes than many of the other gamers in the checklist, including all of Chelsea’s Joao Pedro, Arsenal’s Viktor Gyokeres, Liverpool’s Hugo Ekitike and Manchester United’s Benjamin Sesko.

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Woltemade’s audacious penalty against Nottingham Forest went viral

He is of course a different kind of participant to the man he has changed. He just isn’t producing as many pictures or creating as many possibilities as Isak last time period however he affords an aerial outlet, wins more duels, makes more pressures and regains possession more steadily.

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His warmth map reveals a broader remit.

While Isak was centered on stretching opposition defences with runs in behind, Woltemade is more prone to be seen additional away from purpose, serving to to assemble assaults in addition to end them.

Woltemade is still acclimatising to sure elements of the Premier League. Issa Diop and Calvin Bassey subjected him to tough treatment which often went unpunished against Fulham last weekend, a lot to the striker’s frustration.

But general the speed of his adaptation has been massively spectacular. His challenge now is just to continue in the same vein.

So, is his current scoring fee sustainable? Woltemade has scored 4 targets from 4 pictures heading in the right direction in the Premier League. Factor in his targets in the Champions League and Carabao Cup and, amazingly, it’s six from six pictures heading in the right direction general.

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Woltemade scored his sixth purpose of the season in the Carabao Cup win over Spurs

He has reached that tally from possibilities price only 3.46 anticipated targets, an overperformance which suggests a reversion to the imply might lie ahead. And yet, his precise purpose whole might simply be larger.

Woltemade hit the publish from shut vary in last weekend’s 2-1 win over Fulham and struck the underside of the crossbar in the game against Nottingham Forest, during which he also had a goalbound effort blocked by defender Morata inside the six-yard box.

He is defying the data, then, in addition to typical definitions. And Newcastle’s journey to the London Stadium, live on Sky Sports on Sunday, to face a West Ham facet who can’t defend crosses or corners, appears like one for him to choose up another purpose.

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Newcastle might finally have to service him with more scoring alternatives. They will want their wingers to contribute more targets too, with Jacob Murphy, Harvey Barnes, Anthony Gordon and Anthony Elanga having only discovered the web as soon as in the Premier League between them to this point this season.

But in Woltemade proper now, they’ve a participant giving them precisely what they want, filling an Isak-shaped void, contributing so much more than just targets, and, two months into the season, winning the battle of the Premier League’s new No 9s.

Hurzeler pushing Kostoulas

From Newcastle to Brighton, the place it has been a slower start for Charalampos Kostoulas, another of the Premier League’s newly-signed strikers having joined from Olympiakos for £31.4m in June.

The 18-year-old got here with a status as one of Europe’s most thrilling younger frontmen and lastly earned a first start in Brighton’s Carabao Cup tie against Arsenal on Wednesday having scored his first purpose from the bench against Manchester United.

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Charalampos Kostoulas scored his first purpose for Brighton against Manchester United

Unfortunately for him, it didn’t last lengthy.

Kostoulas seemed menacing from the left flank in the first half at the Emirates Stadium however he was withdrawn at the interval with Fabian Hurzeler citing “physical reasons” afterwards.

“He needs to adapt to the intensity of the Premier League, he needs to adapt to the demands,” said the Brighton boss.

Hurzeler was complimentary of the teen’s performance. “He played very well,” he said. But his ruthlessness in taking him off called to thoughts his comments on Carlos Baleba last week, when he supplied Sky Sports an perception into his man-management strategies.

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Fabian Hurzeler is pushing Kostoulas to attempt to get the best out of him

The 32-year-old talked up the significance of “honest feedback” having been agency with Baleba over his performances following a summer season of switch hypothesis. Hurzeler has taken him off at half-time on three separate events this season. “Carlos won’t get better if he only gets compliments and claps from outside,” he said.

Clearly, Hurzeler is pushing Kostoulas in the same approach. And even if it feels uncomfortable, the striker ought to remember that his team-mate seems to have benefitted. Baleba was Brighton’s best performer against Arsenal, dominating the midfield in the first half and demonstrating the potential Hurzeler is attempting to extract.

Player Radar: Who else to regulate

No Dean Huijsen, no drawback for Bournemouth. They have another younger gem at centre-back in Veljko Milosavljevic.

The 18-year-old Serb is pushing to face Erling Haaland and Manchester City on Super Sunday having helped Bournemouth maintain a clear sheet against Nottingham Forest last time out.

Live Radar: What’s on Sky this weekend?

On Saturday Night Football, it is Tottenham against Chelsea, live on Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event from 5pm ahead of the 5.30pm kick-off.

On Super Sunday, West Ham host Newcastle in the earlier kick-off, with coverage beginning on Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event from 12.30pm ahead of the 2pm kick-off, before Man City’s conflict with Bournemouth at 4.30pm.

Sunderland host Everton on Monday Night Football. Tune in from 6.30pm ahead of the 8pm kick-off.

Read the last Radar column

Joao Palhinha, Rodrigo Bentancur and Tottenham’s points playing by midfield featured in last week’s column. There was also a take a look at Bruno Fernandes’ beautiful report for Man Utd ahead of his three hundredth look.

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