Late Barnes belter stuns Wolves as Newcastle prevail

Harvey Barnes' brilliant strike completed Newcastle’s late turnaround as they won their first Premier League match at Wolves since 2011 with a 2-1 victory.

With 15 minutes remaining the visitors were trailing to Mario Lemina’s first-half goal and looked to have run out of ideas after Eddie Howe’s triple half-time substitution appeared not to have made any difference to a lacklustre performance.

A slice of fortune saw Fabian Schar, returning from a three-match ban, equalise with a 30-yard strike which deflected off the head of Craig Dawson but it was individual brilliance and not luck which brought the winner.

Barnes exchanged passed with fellow substitute Joe Willock and cut inside before curling a superb shot into the top corner as Johnston was beaten for a second time inside three minutes.

The goal extended the Magpies’ unbeaten start to the season, while stretching Wolves’ run to just one league victory in the last 14 games.

However, it was far from convincing and Wolves will feel hard done by as they were the better team for the majority of the game with captain Lemina leading from the front.

The Gabon international was given the armband at the start of the season and his roving role just behind the front line caused the visitors numerous problems after Newcastle’s early promise fizzled out surprisingly quickly.

Striker Alexander Isak posed questions by dropping deep and from one such position he played in Jacob Murphy, whose shot was tipped over by Johnston on his home debut.

Anthony Gordon was Newcastle’s most threatening attacker, however, and almost scored a brilliant individual goal midway through the half when he cut in from the left touchline, easily skipping past Nelson Semedo and Yerson Mosquera before bending a