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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.