Dave Edwards: Vitor Pereira's brave team selection almost worked for Wolves

Since Tolu Arokodare has come to the football club there has been a lot of talk about playing two strikers but I really thought he would stick with the 3-4-3 formation.

But I do think there's some logic to why he played 3-5-2. On Arokodare's debut, getting someone close to him was going to help him and playing more direct makes sense because you don't want to play in the middle of the pitch due to how good Newcastle's midfield three is.

When we played at Newcastle last season it was men against boys, so to play an extra midfield this time with Ladislav Krejci coming in for his debut, gave Wolves an extra body in there. It allowed Joao Gomes to get closer to the forward line as well.

The pros of that system is that you can be a little bit more direct, you can use the assets of people like Gomes to land on second balls, get possession higher up the pitch and then try and score. We've found it hard to play through teams, so getting on the ball higher up the pitch is beneficial.

The cons of this system is a reliance on your wing-backs to be really high and wide, which I know Pereira likes, but it's a big ask for them to get up and down all game and provide the quality going forward where you haven't got those number 10s.

The other con is the recruitment. If we are going to stick with two up front, but we've recruited for 3-4-3, then the likes of Jhon Arias and Fer Lopez will struggle to fit into the system. It will be interesting to see if Pereira uses this formation moving forward.

The head coach will have seen enough positives from it to be confident that it can work in games, but I'd probably still expect him to be chopping and changing, a bit like Nuno Espirito Santo did.

In the game itself, Wolves made a brilliant start. It was arguably the best 45 minutes of their season with the intensity they played at and the direct nature really worked. 

Rodrigo Gomes had two or three really good chances in that first half. He was full of energy and got himself into really good areas. Hwang Hee-chan also had a good chance as well, as Nick Pope made lots of good saves.

It was a good first half but that's where you have to capitalise on that pressure and you have to get that goal because Newcastle are always going to come back into the game. They're always going to get momentum with that home crowd behind them and it's very difficult to keep a clean sheet against them.

But we didn't get that goal and the goal we conceded was desperately poor. The cross coming into the box was far too easy and R.Gomes and J.Gomes have to do more to stop Jacob Murphy.

When the ball did come into the box, the body position of Emmanuel Agbadou wasn't great. He knew where Nick Woltemade was, had his shoulders open as he should do, but as a defender, rather than trying to go and win the ball, you've got to negate what the striker can do by getting close, getting physical.

The ball into the box was brilliant and Woltemade's movement was very good, but if Agbadou was touch tight then he could have stopped his momentum. It was an avoidable goal.

The most disappointing thing after that was how tame Wolves looked in the second half. They ended up making lots of tweaks but never mustered any sort of pressure.

They had to have a big finish at the end of the game, when Newcastle were getting nervous, and it was a missed opportunity because Newcastle weren't at their best.

I thought the debutants did well in the game. Arokodare was a real nuisance, worked hard and made it really difficult for defenders. He gives you an outlet and if Wolves get players around him they can have some joy with that.

I was really impressed with Krejci in midfield. He was very composed on the ball and I think he's going to be a really good player for Wolves. I think Pereira will find a place for him in the team, whether it's in defence or whether it's in midfield.

His calmness on the ball is very good, his progressive passing was excellent and he never looks flustered.

But now Pereira has called for some patience, he's got his group that he needs to work with, he's very confident that he can get this football club winning games again.

I have to say I'm confident that he can do so but it's not a nice stat losing the opening four games - making history for the wrong reasons. 

Whilst everyone will want to remain patient with Pereira, it does feel like there's a big game around the corner at Molineux on Saturday against Leeds. Wolves really need to get something out of that. 

Big decisions will need to be made this week from Pereira in how he sets his team up. If Jorgen Strand Larsen is fit, does he play him on his own? Does he play him with Arokodare? There are some big calls to make.

The squad is looking stronger with the additions but it's not quite clicking yet.