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[✅️FT] Newcastle United 1-0 Arsenal

Goals

Newcastle United: Alexander Isak (12')

Arsenal:

Competition: English Premier League

Kickoff: 12:30+UTC

Venue: St. James' Park - Newcastle-upon-Tyne England

Attendance: 52.249

Head referee: John Brooks

Newcastle United form [old → recent]: ✅️➖️❌️❌️✅️

Arsenal form [old → recent]: ✅️❌️✅️➖️✅️

Head to head [recent → old]: (NEW-ARS): 1-4, 1-0, 0-2, 0-0, 2-0

Lineups

Newcastle United 4-3-3:

Nick Pope(22)🟨 - Dan Burn(33) - Fabian Schär(5)🟨 - Lewis Hall(20) - Valentino Livramento(21) - ~~Bruno Guimarães(39)~~ ⇆ Lloyd Kelly(25) - ~~Joe Willock(28)🟨~~ ⇆ Sandro Tonali(8)🟨 - Sean Longstaff(36) - Alexander Isak(14)⚽️ - Joelinton (7) - ~~Anthony Gordon(10)~~ ⇆ Harvey Barnes(11)

Bench: Lewis Miley - Emil Krafth - William Osula - Martin Dúbravka - Miguel Almirón - Alex Murphy - ~~Sandro Tonali~~ - ~~Lloyd Kelly~~ - ~~Harvey Barnes~~

Arsenal 4-4-2:

David Raya(22) - Gabriel Magalhães(6) - William Saliba(2) - ~~Jurriën Timber(12)🟨~~ ⇆ Ben White(4) - ~~Thomas Partey(5)~~ ⇆ Jorginho (20)🟨 - ~~Mikel Merino(23)🟨~~ ⇆ Oleksandr Zinchenko(17) - Declan Rice(41) - ~~Gabriel Martinelli(11)~~ ⇆ Ethan Nwaneri(53) - Bukayo Saka(7) - ~~Leandro Trossard(19)~~ ⇆ Gabriel Jesus(9) - Kai Havertz(29)

Bench: Myles Lewis-Skelly - Jakub Kiwior - Neto - Raheem Sterling - ~~Gabriel Jesus~~ - ~~Ben White~~ - ~~Oleksandr Zinchenko~~ - ~~Jorginho ~~ - ~~Ethan Nwaneri~~

Match Stats

Possession: 36%🟩🟩🟩🟩🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴64%

Shots On Goal: 4 - 1

Shots Attempted: 9 - 10

Fouls: 16 - 18

Yellow Cards: 4 - 4

Red Cards: 0 - 0

Corners: 4 - 6

Saves: 0 - 3

Match Events

Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

First Half begins.

2' - Attempt missed. Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Declan Rice.

3' - Foul by Kai Havertz (Arsenal).

3' - Lewis Hall (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

5' - Attempt blocked. Bruno Guimarães (Newcastle United) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Joe Willock.

5' - Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Gabriel Magalhães.

6' - Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

6' - Foul by Joe Willock (Newcastle United).

6' - Attempt missed. Mikel Merino (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.

7' - Foul by Sean Longstaff (Newcastle United).

7' - Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

8' - Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Sean Longstaff.

9' - Bruno Guimarães (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

9' - Foul by Gabriel Magalhães (Arsenal).

10' - Foul by Anthony Gordon (Newcastle United).

10' - Jurriën Timber (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

11' - Attempt missed. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jurriën Timber.

12' - Goal! Newcastle United 1, Arsenal 0. Alexander Isak (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Anthony Gordon with a cross.

14' - Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.

14' - Foul by Lewis Hall (Newcastle United).

16' - Foul by Joelinton (Newcastle United).

16' - William Saliba (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

18' - Attempt missed. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kai Havertz.

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79 comments

Let's pick ourselves up

5
you know it's bad though when even Saka doesn't look much up for it.

4
Tbh this game has been making me realise just how much White does for us. Ødegaard also obviously a big miss.

4
I swear, this club and the manchester blue cunts are the worst clubs in the fucking world.

4
- Don't forget Chelshit.
  
  2
  
  eh, they're just funny rn. Under Roman, yes; now, they're just trying to do a Leeds. Still cunts but not at "worst in the world" levels.
  
  2
I miss Ødegaard.

4
- We don't gel the same way without him.
  
  2
the commentary talking about us being good at stats and still losing the title last season. brother that's cuz city bought the fucking refs man

4
Apparently no clean sheets in 6 — I mean, to be fair, we keep having to switch up the back four. But my word we need to fix up.

4
I think football just isn't going my way today.

and yes it is a pretty sizeable indictment to Arsenal that I've felt bored enough that I'm pulling an FM game up during the actual game.

3
Certainly feels like White wasn't meant to play today from his passing so far.

3
- Seems like half our team is carrying an injury. They all look like they need a 4 week vacation to recover.
  
  4
  
  Turns out playing 2 90s with 10 men means everyone is shattered already.
  
  3
I expect Liverpool and City to win, if we lose here that's a hefty gap that I don't feel like we'll be able to close.

3
- If we lose here it's basically over. There's no way we can expect City to drop that many points. And Newcastle have been woeful this season, there's no reason not to beat them
  
  3
  
  tbf St James is always a hard game just cuz of the stadium but like. yeah no we are disappointing. And that'll be two losses in a row in the league.
  
  2
aghhh so close for Rice.

3
I am not happy with Trossard. Though to be fair none of the attackers are getting any joy.

Also, why is it that, upon winning an aerial duel, 75% of the time it just goes straight back to the opposition? Do we have shit aim?

3
- Feels like we've had the wrong side of the green for most of this season so far.
  
  2
  
  And it'll continue because no one wants to admit that the league is fucked.
  
  2
Well that was a dog shit performance from us for the entirety of that first half. Absolutely and utterly not good enough. Our second half and the three points all depend on how brave Arteta can be. Otherwise our title hopes are looking like they're gonna slip away.

3
Doesn't happen too often but we're actually worse than last season.

3
- For the first stretch, red cards were the issue. Now it's the injuries. We had a lot of luck last season that we have completely lost.
  
  5
  
  yeah, this game might be the first time that I've felt like we can't win the league this season.
  
  2
Newcastle kicks it out of bounds and then gets possession back

3
Trossard off the bench dribbles past both defenders and gets a shot on goal.

3
fuck.

3
has to score that.

2
That was a very impressive defending run from Gordon. Kinda just shoves Jesus out of the way though, sell it more and we could have had something.

Honestly this might be the first game that I've seen from them which really makes me think Gordon deserves to start for England on the left.

2
- I'm just watching this as if I'm a neutral now cuz fucking hell I'm not wanting to be angry about us right now. And I will be, so much will be, when we actually lose.
  
  1
  
  I'm already angry. We're TEN MATCHES IN.
  
  2
Back to the dark days, where we'd have the ball around their box for 20 minutes then in 5 seconds they'd have scored via 3 passes

2
I do appreciate that we've gone back to basics and actually having a 4-3-3 now.

2
Zinchenko and Nwaneri coming on

2
- Starting to wonder what it is with Jesus that means we're not playing him, tbh.
  
  1
  
  He's just not offering much when he gets some minutes
  
  1
Hopefully we pull the reverse of what we've been doing and have a killer second half.

2
We need sweeping changes

2
- I want Nwaneri at half-time, no one looks up for this game and there's not the creativity we need to find something. Problem is he's not exactly physically gonna be able to match up I feel.
  
  6
  
  We just need him to pull a Cazorla
  
  3
we've been quite dreadful today, ngl.

2
That longball for Timber shows the problems with this team. Two centre forwards on the pitch and neither playing centrally. Swap Trosaard for Nwaneri and push Havertz up

2
That was a really flat poor performance. We really don’t seem to lift our game unless we are playing the big big clubs.

1
Looking forward to seeing +1 minute

1
I actually can't name a single thing Saka's done this second half.

1
That was impressive to get that ball from Zinny there, lol.

1
Someone who's able to watch: are they at least getting tired? If not I can't see how we get anything out of today.

1
- Not yet, at least defensively. They're up for this game. We don't look it.
  
  They are not getting the ball forward as much, but they seem to be set up for a counter.
  
  3
Like, I get that that happened cuz of being off balance, but what's Trossard doing wrapping his arms round someone's legs there XD

1
I think you need Jesus and Zinchenko on here, tbh. Just not enough centrally. Trossard needs to come off.

1
Set plays are apparently another area where we aren't as good as last year.

1
- Not got Ben White on.
  
  3
Trossard has just not looked great has he. I'm honestly not sure why he still starts, tbh; nor why we still are trying this four four fucking two shit.

1
- Honestly for a while he was doing really well to help lead the press with Havertz. But either he's tired or he's lost the spark; he isn't scoring and he isn't really helping out too much creatively either.
  
  1
Jesus needs to play today, honestly. Put him on for Trossard after the break or something.

1
Is Arteta Eidevall in disguise, why are we just cross and inshallah so much today... i'm tired boss

1
What's the chant that's to the tune of Santi Cazorla's there?

1
Four four facking two

1

From Mikel's press conference:

Do you have any regrets on your actions at Newcastle last year?

M: That’s part of the past and part of the situation that happened. You learn from it and you take a lot of positives as well. We moved on.

Do you think your comments worked?

M: My intention is not that the comments worked. I had to say what I felt on the day.

Have the standards of refereeing improved?

M: They are certainly trying their best.

I'm fully prepared to get fucked back to back.

The man has principles

2

Arteta has had a stinker of megalithic proportions.

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- On the players, this, tbh. Everyone looking impotent.
  
  3
  
  Arteta picked the team and refused to make changes until his usual 65th minute
  
  1
No changes at halftime. WTF Arteta?

0
- He doesn't like doing half-time changes to win the game is what I've noticed. Wants to give the players a chance to make amends, probably.
  
  1
  
  I accept that, but I think 15 minutes is more than enough time to demonstrate whether you're going to make amends. He always waits til 70 to change things up and it's hurt us a lot this season. I assume because teams have us more figured out.
  
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