Result: Newcastle 1-0 Arsenal
Competition: Premier League
Date: 4 November 2023
Venue: St James’ Park
Arsenal: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Tomiyasu, Jorginho, Rice, Havertz, Martinelli, Saka, Nketiah
Subs: Ramsdale, Hein, Kiwior, Cedric, Zinchenko, Elneny, Vieira, Nelson, Trossard
Arsenal’s unbeaten start to the Premier League season came to an end at St James’ Park as Newcastle secured a 1-0 win thanks to Anthony Gordon’s controversial second half goal.
While the Gunners controlled large swathes of the game and had the home side pegged back in the closing stages, we looked devoid of ideas in the final third and never really tested Nick Pope.
Gordon’s goal on 64 minutes was checked for three possible offences by VAR before being awarded but even a sense of injustice couldn’t fuel Arteta’s players to find an equaliser.
Pre-game
The big talking point was the absence of Martin Odegaard from the squad. Despite scoring as a late substitute against West Ham in midweek, the Norway international wasn’t fit enough to make the trip to the North-East. It was a blow that forced a further reshuffle of a midfield already missing Thomas Partey. Jorginho was asked to sit deep with Declan Rice and Kai Havertz in front of him. At the back, William Saliba returned after a break on Wednesday, Ben White made his 100th appearance for the club and Takehiro Tomiyasu took over from Oleksandr Zinchenko to bring further physicality to left-back. Up top, Eddie Nketiah, making his 100th Premier League appearance, led the line with Martinelli and Saka on the flanks. Cedric’s presence on the bench underlined our injury issues.
First Half
A frantic opening 10 minutes saw the sides split possession pretty evenly but there was no real flow with fouls and stoppages for treatment, notably for Joelinton, making it very stop-start.
By and large, the backline looked comfortable and the midfield didn’t shy away from its duels. That said, aside from a couple of breaks that led to corners, we didn’t create a whole lot. At the 20-minute mark, neither side had managed a shot on target, although we had attempted five from outside the box. A mistimed Nketiah header over the bar suggested we were edging closer.
You could tell we were up for it. When Gabriel shepherded Wilson out of play as the Newcastle striker burst into the box three of his teammates were quick to show their appreciation. Wilson did come close on 29 minutes as he tried to pounce on a loose ball in the six-yard box although the offside flag went up. It was a warning.
Twice in the space of a minute, Burn fouled Saka and somehow managed to get away without being cautioned by referee Stuart Atwell. Havertz was never going to be so lucky when he crashed through Longstaff on the touchline to spark a short-lived melee. The German went in the book for his reckless challenge. Amusingly, as did Gordon, Schar and Longstaff for their reactions. When Rice caught Bruno Guimaraes on the ankles moments later, the home fans didn’t hide their frustration.
Newcastle tried to capitalise and Arsenal were lucky when Gordon stumbled into a cross at the back post with only Raya to beat. Bruno also tried his luck from range – his effort screwed wide – before he left a forearm in the back of Jorginho’s head. Andy Madely on VAR duty reviewed the incident and somehow deemed it acceptable. Ridiculous.
In stoppage time, Arsenal finally managed a shot on target. Rice looped a ball out to Martinelli, he put his head down, cut into the box and fired straight at Pope.
Second Half
Newcastle were forced into a change at the break with Livramento replacing the injured Burn. He went to right-back against Martinelli with Trippier moving over to left-back to counter Saka’s threat.
Havertz didn’t take long to test the patience of the officials again. Another late sliding challenge looked destined to earn him another yellow but with play left to continue and Newcastle keeping the ball in play for ages, he somehow survived.
Newcastle had us back peddling on 54 minutes when Wilson occupied Saliba allowing Almiron to feed Gordon. White did well to tidy things up before Raya gathered.
At the hour mark, we finally put together a move of quality. Little triangles down the left saw us free Martinelli and when his cross was cleared, Rice connected with his head only to see the effort fly wide.
Newcastle responded with two changes, Murphy and Willock on for Almiron and Wilson. Immediately the home side put the ball in the back of the net. It started with Murphy hitting a cross-shot that flew across goal. The ball seemed to go out of play but was gathered by Willock who crossed into the middle. Raya flapped, Joelinton nudged Gabriel in the back and Gordon tapped into the open goal. VAR checked for three offences – the ball out of play, a foul and an offside – but couldn’t find anything conclusive and gave the goal. (GOAL 1-0)
After Arsenal wasted a couple of corners, Arteta sent on Zinchenko looking for more creativity. White was sacrificed meaning Tomiyasu moved to right-back. Not long after Trossard and Vieira replaced Jorginho and Nketiah.
Newcastle were happy to sit back and soak up the pressure. Schar cleared a cross by Havertz and Livramento blocked a Trossard shot from range before Bruno put another arm in the face of an Arsenal player – this time Vieira – and was booked. Finally.
We continued to lack quality in the final third and without a bona fide centre-forward on the pitch looked frustratingly toothless. As the board went up to signal eight minutes of stoppage time, Livramento fouled Martinelli out wide allowing us a chance to swing in a free-kick. Vieira took responsibility but he couldn’t beat the first man. He then took a foul throw just when we looked to counter. It summed us up.
A further flurry of corners were all cleared easily as we targeted the near post. Whether that was a deliberate tactic or just terrible technique was unclear. Either way, it proved costly. Newcastle saw out the game to secure the points.
Mikel has created two nervous goalkeepers with a mistake in them. The goal was horrible watching and totally avoidable, let alone the ball running out of play.
Var are an absolute joke but we ain’t winning any league with nketia as our calentre forward. Felt for Declan Rice, he deserved better with that fantastic performance.
Googling “calentre”… 🙂
Time was when Howe thought of as a possible Arsenal manager. I guess its true money does change people sonewghat ,He’s turned into a horrible unlikable entitled little shit.
Seriously? all you saw was nervous goalkeeping? Or a simple lack of awareness by the defenders to close down the cross? and of course, a contentious goal scored.
The defence dropped off because the ball went out of play and then had to reposition.
Pay to the whistle mate. We all know that.
Play
Seems like maybe Newcastle’s PIF owners have “paid to the whistle”
Agree but it was out and everyone knew
Everyone but the referee and linesman the most important people in the match. You play until the referee gives it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if “pay to the whistle” is exactly what newcastle did
Hahaha true true.
Oops made the same joke before I saw this, well in sir
That’s no excuse, if you’re a professional you follow the ball out, or at least close down to stop the cross.
Talk is cheap. Ever played football anywhere?
And no one chased the opponent at all, it’s criminal that an opponent gets to the ball out or not, stops it, runs all the way to the corner then back to the ball unchallenged. Takes a couple of touches and crosses. Crazy crazy crazy regardless of how dubious the goal was.
Although it was a foul on Gabriel and VAR should have given that two-handed shove as a foul.
Red card for Bruno for that elbow on Jorginho.
We were robbed 100% but we didn’t cover ourselves in glory in that goal moment.
all true! but: scoring one more than the opponent, you win the game against 12 men and 7 referees…
How about playing to the whistle? One of the oldest rules in the game.
They didn’t drop off, they never chased after Willock. They waited for him to bring the ball. Watch that again.
It was on White
We wouldn’t be having this discussion had Ben White chased the guy to the corner. I mean he chased the ball, stopped it and carried on with his momentum, and came back to drive the ball back towards goal and crossed freely. The past few games BW has not been himself really. Check his crossing today, all over hit
I wouldn’t bash Ben that much, a lapse in concentration is all I’m going to give it to.
Chase the guy even when the ball is 100% out? What are you saying? Ben White put his trust on the ref to blow the whistle. They didn’t. As you can see from images on X, the ball was completely out of play so stop blaming BW.
Before it goes out the player was chasing it. What are saying?
Goal keeping mistake was the last thing I’m gonna blame. How many referees went to officiate in Emirates or Saudi Arabia this week is the question
To simply put the goal down to poor officiating is not good enough, though foul could have given on Gabby, but the defending and goalkeeping were found wanting, Raya came to punch the ball twice and failed.
It’s enough for me pal.
The ball was out of play – the ‘goal’ should have been disallowed. Our defending – poor or otherwise – is entirely beside the point.
How the actual fuck is any team supposed to compete against blatantly corrupt officiating like that?
We’re all frustrated by the defeat, but we should all, as Arsenal fans, be apoplectic with VAR – not making fucking excuses for it.
Story of the season. Instead of building on last year’s momentum, he’s trying to be clever and change things that didn’t need to be changed.
Exactly, MA trying to reinvent football simply because he finished second last season. We’re not going to win the league with 11 players. We need a good bench. The results from the last 2 games show we’re far from a complete squad.
It’s a squad game now mate – and in case you hadn’t realised, we have had the small matter of having Jesus, Partey, Saka, Martinelli, ESR and Timber all out at some point or another with injuries.
The manager has had no choice but to make changes.
Got to be the most difficult manager to be a goalkeeper for taking into account the risk taking style of play he wants them to play as well
He could turn prime Neuer into a nervous wreck
So that’s your hot take from the match? So every goal we concede will be blamed on Arteta attempting to upgrade the goalkeeping personnel?Talk about an agenda.
Raya was out of position. As he often is. That goal doesn’t go in with a keeper in the right position. The guy is a liability.
Completely agree. Raya seems to have a real problem being in the right position for crosses. He consistently makes big mistakes in important games unfortunately, and it’s costing us points.
When the manager unnecessarily replaces your number 1 who was on the hot track to be england starter then absolutely he should be pressed on it heavily, especially when he is going to say ridiculous things like substituting a GK at the 60th minute.
The keeper who can’t take the job from Jordan effing Pickford? The overstatement of Ramsdale’s quality is out of control. And I like the guy.
It wasn’t a ‘goal.’
End of.
I thought our unbeaten run would succumb to a dodgy away decision, apart from Raya’s involvement in the goal which shouldn’t have been allowed he had a good game, we looked pretty solid at the back it was our forward line that could of done a lot better, Martinelli and Saka were woeful today…
Ffs this is so boring and irrelevant now. Raya is no.1. They’re both asked to play a high risk strategy so sometimes make mistakes. Can we please move on.
I wanna break things! And the VAR room!
I don’t blame VAR for the 3 goal decisions – I think they were all correct although I think the on pitch decision for the ball staying in was likely wrong, the linesman should’ve blown, but VAR didn’t have a conclusive angle on it.
That was not a push on Gabriel?
That was hard to take, but ultimately we weren’t scoring in this game. It’s a zero vs one point decision.
Warum?
This has been a strange season so far. We have never once played our REAL starting 11. Partey and Jesus have missed too many big games and it’s starting to be annoying!
Frustrating officiating, unbearable. Wilson should have been sent off. That goal was a joke!
Guimarez should get some sort of award, THREE straight reds he somehow got away with.
Not sure I’ve felt such hatred for a player since Diego Costa.
Newcastle had like 6 cards mate and Havertz could of easily been sent off. Officiating didn’t cause us to play like shit.
While officiating was not good, we were worse, specially the attack which seems pretty blunt.
‘Not good’….?!! 😂
It was a fucking disgrace, mate.
Daylight robbery.
That the VAR crew didn’t call Atwell’s attention to the hit on Jorginho was stone cold shocking. That same VAR crew didn’t send Atwell to the monitor for an assessment of the foul on Gabriel. Atwell was ok IMO though he could have controlled things more. It’s the VAR official, hiding away somewhere, that is wholly suspect.
Havertz barely touched him. Not every slide tackle deserves a card.
He was off the ground, luckily he didn’t make any solid contact. That type of challenge can destroy someones ankle. If Dan Burn had done that exact challenge to Saka we’d all be taking about how it should of been a red. Let’s not blame the referees for being shit, sometimes we have to show some humility and admit we are not good.
Fuck off
Grow up
His front leg was off the ground but half a yard in front of the player, it was his trail leg that caught the man. That’s no leg breaker mate, sorry. Foul definitely, yellow possibly.
What if doesnt count. This is real life. You are Newcastle fan in disguise or deluded.
No I’m an Arsenal fan..and when surrounded by delusion the man who isn’t seems to be.
So you are just a troll feeding on our emotions.
Someone having a different opinion to you doesn’t automatically make them a ‘troll’, don’t be so childish.
Wengerball, I’m with you. That was a shocking tackle, he was very lucky.
And everyone saying ‘oh but he didn’t make contact’ that was a split seconds difference from missing and potentially shattering Dan Burn’s leg. Roles reversed everyone would 100% be calling for a red.
No way Havertz tackle was a red.
Was Newcastle the better side? I dont think so. Why did they win? Because f that goal. Stop this self blaming nonsense.
Yes they were better because they created a decent chance while we didn’t. VAR is VAR
You are not a real Arsenal fan. You came here to dredge salt in our wounds after clearly unfair result. Even Tottenham fan pundit in studio after the match admitted Arsenal was robbed. Stop it.
We should be beating that team 3 nil mate, and you’re crying about an unfair 1-0 loss..my expectations are different, this is Arsenal, we score goals for fun and we do it with style, this Arsenal today and all season has been shit and some of the most boring football I’ve ever seen.
Oh, i got it now. You thought, we gonna repeat invincible season, and now it is ruined. Poor you.
How many shots did we have, 2 or 3? We aren’t creating enough and it’s very worrying. Saka been very poor all season, Eddie predictably useless. We desperately need to buy a couple of forwards in January
14 actually
I love Bennie White, but the goal was totally his fault.
Don’t do that! Every goal can be seen to be a person’s fault depending on how far you go back. It’s not helpful.
True, but you’ll rarely see a player switching off so blatantly at this level.
Benny may have been injured, as was subbed soon afterwards, but he could have screamed at Saliba to close Willock down.
Newcastle are so easy to hate.
What a joke of a ref.
Their fans are even easier to hate.
The cuntery of Stoke + corrupt human rights abusing oil money, what a despicable Frankenstein’s monster.
I thought Man Utd had a collection of rats that play for them but Newcastle have surpassed them with that lot of scum.
We did not deserve to lose that.
We did nothing to win that.
Neither did Newcastle.
Guys, we didnt deserve to lose. Thats te main point here.
I know what you mean, but If you are as toothless as we are at the moment you don’t deserve to actually win either.
Then we should of not lost it..
Football unfortunately works like that, sometimes you lose games you didn’t deserve to lose, that’s why you have to perform so well that you deserve to win by 3 goals, and then if you’re unlucky you only win by 1. Our margins have been too thin on that front all season, we’ve been squeaking by teams playing barely better than them. Eventually you’ll have games like this one and Fulham where that comes back to bite you. PGMOL sucks but that takes the focus off the real issue which is, our attacking this season has been as impotent as Hugh… Read more »
Perfectly said. I find it funny that all the talk is about VAR, I didn’t even know what PGMOL was before this season but they have become our scapegoat
We got done by VAR again. But lets be honest. We didnt have a shot of note in 90 minutes. Newcastle aren’t prime Milan. We are horrible to watch and have been most of this season. Saka and Martinelli were utterly useless today and have been for a while now.
Hard to achieve something resembling football against a rugby team with a free pass to push, shove and kick the opponent.
That’s the type of excuse we kept giving in the Wenger era, thought we’d moved past that. If our performances prior to this game had been that much better I might have accepted it but its been mostly this all season.
Tell us. What’s the “while” that they have been useless?
I don’t blame VAR for the goal, only for not spotting any Guimarez’s red card offences.
Don’t you dare insult Arteta’s golden boys!
We have a Newcastle fan here.
Horrible to watch? We haven’t played as good as last season but I won’t use the word horrible. We are a lot more Conservative and not having 3 of our key progressive players(Jesus, Odegaard and TP5) is bound to have an effect on the the team’s performance.
“Saka and Martinelli useless” miles too harsh Jeremy.
I judge them at a high standard. They’ve both set the bar pretty high tbf. Saka doesn’t look fit to me. Martinelli should have had their wing back on toast…he was playing on the wrong side of the field.
“useless”??
So many times he could have gone past him but stopped and passed back to our mid trio instead. So frustrating. I like an inverted winger but sometimes you got to go around the outside
Martinelli was good. Saka was awful.
Agree about Saka but Martinelli?? He’s been one of the very few attacking players we have that almost always looks dangerous, he scored the winning goal v. City, the brilliant one at Sevilla, what are you on about? Even today he and Havertz were the only ones who were trying to make stuff happen up front.
Eddie was the real issue. They weren’t able to link with the striker. He hogs the middle, creating zero room for others to run through, hence no movement.
Even worse is the lack of clever runs to the near or far post, where we could’ve had more than it share of fillers from all those crosses that went across their goal line.
The most expensive league in the most popular sport on earth.
Maybe get some cameras so you CAN get the angles you want. This doesn’t happen in tennis ffs.
I feel for the manager, we were set up to not lose and it took a VAR clusterfuck to beat us. I’ll be looking at perfect angles of that ball out of play on Twitter all week.
The front line is toothless without Odegaard in form. Predictably no creativity from that midfield
The defense is good but with no goal danger Newcastle could take some chances.
KH did some ok things but is an expensive role player with zero goal danger.
The goalkeeper thing is not the issue.
Agreed
Really concerning that without Odegaard (I’d throw ESR there too) there is no connectivity in the team. Every player was Mike’s from each other and Martinelli was on an island. No creativity, Zinchenko touching the ball 40 times in the attacking third before ultimately passing the ball to Rice who is 5 yards to his left with no pressure..
Miles*
Also…I miss Xhaka deeply.
Maybe I’ve got red tinted glasses but that was surely out, a foul and freaking offside. Feel genuinely robbed.
VAR couldn’t see the exact moment the ball was played for the offside – how does that matter?!?! He was offside for the whole time!!!
The people who run VAR sit safely in their bunker and laugh at us, the fans, the teams they fuck over every week and football in general.
Robbed of what mate? We still didn’t even score or create anything. 1 point doesn’t make a difference when you just can’t get 3 at all
What are you talking about?
unfortunatly, i hate to admit it…
It is not offside. But other two things….
Oh that is 1000% offside. There will be a very nice image comparison of where the ball is on the leg of ratface #1 showing almost the entire of ratface #2 offside. Can’t understand why a line cant be drawn w/ the tech from the ball in the view where it CAN be seen & then a line drawn from another clear view of the position of the attacker if that’s what it takes.
And recall that they had no issue chalking one off for us because they were kinda sure something that couldn’t be seen was offside last season…
Frustrating game. From that line up I thought it would be 1-0 to either side as we would struggle to score. Sadly we never looked like really breaking through. Couple half chances and terrible set pieces.
Without Jesus we will struggle against top half sides.
we got what we deserved. Nothing. The goalkeeper situation is self harm. What the fuck was Raya doing for the goal? And one poor shot in 90 minutes. Arteta has been found out in the last two games.
Losing Partey, Jesus and Ode definitely hurts, but playing Raya instead of Ramsdale hurts just as much, and that’s Arteta’s choice.
This is such bollocks. Raya is not the issue here.
Can we stop the Raya experimient now please. There isn’t a single parameter in which he’s a better goalkepeer than Ramsdale.
That’s a bad take mate. What did Ramsdale do on Wednesday?
Agenda FC. Ramsdale isn’t flawless you know.
Did I say he was flawless?
The difference between them is miniscule, both are top top quality, but judging by the west ham game, both seem nervous.
Newcastle are just Stoke 2.0 just with more despicable owners.
How Bruno G. stayed on that pitch is insane. I was shocked when he was only awarded his first yellow in the 2nd half.
And the goal. Don’t get me started.
We need a striker badly.
Great post!
Our refs are employed on the side by the Saudi league. Then we get questionable decisions vs a Saudi owned team. Not much left to say really. It won’t just be us either and yet no one seems to be talking about it
People talk but only the fans of the teams who have been wronged and they are promptly told to ‘stop whinging’ by fans of other clubs (until it happens to them). And the circle of corruption continues.
VAR isn’t working well enough but honestly, and because they’re human sometimes they miss things, but the refereeing is not the problem. It’s a complete diversion to keep going on about it. It tends to even out across a season and there are games we get favourable decisions for sure.
The issue is Arsenal, despite looking pretty solid, couldn’t unlock Newcastle. And yeah, they’re very physical approach is pretty ugly and verging on unsporting. But still.
Instead of progressing from year 3 to year 4, Arteta has managed to regress us back to year 2 with sidepass FC. Thank God for Rice because without him we’d have lost a few more games this season. Really concerning performances this year, I don’t know if we can challenge for the league with these types of performances….Also the squad is being run into the ground, Saka looked gassed from the start.
We are actually stronger than last year, but it’s at the expense of attacking threat.
You have to say injuries to Partey (RIP) Jesus, Odegaard have had serious consequences this season so far
I don’t understand this point. So we have more possession and “control”, doesn’t matter when you can’t create goals when you need to. We looked absolutely pedestrian in the last two games when it comes to chance creation
We don’t look as likely to concede as many as last year, but we look less likely to score
Agreed. People keep saying Saka is okay. He’s not. His form dipped for the last 10 games of last season. We ran our key players into the ground. Ben White, Partey, Odingaard, Marinelli and even Ramsdale looked like they were running on fumes at the end of last season. It’s carried over into this season
It’s because MA did not trust anyone else to do the job, which I understand, but now those players are burnt out and the subs didn’t get the play time necessary to develop their game in this team and what we are watching is the result of that
Saka definitely not right at the mo. He really isn’t close to his previous stellar form.
He’s always double-marked these days and doesn’t have the Ben White overlap to give him some space
🎼 our time will come!
Didn’t do enough to win, didn’t deserve to lose. Unbelievable that the goal was allowed to stand. If the ball out of play and offside were difficult to prove, the push in the back was not and was clearly shown on multiple replays. Saying that, Raya should have cut out the cross and we wouldn’t be having the conversation. Had more than enough of him now.
The boys fought well, VAR didn’t help and our lack of incision did us too. But we tried and for that, I’m happy with general play.
😂😂
it will be a quite challenge for us to go to top 4 let alone winning the EPL, if our won manager, the ARSEta keep giving chance to keeper who always, always make mistakes in every fucking single game, albeit with all the VAR checking the goal will not be happened if the GK do the simplest thing, catch the cross, and this keeper keep making mistakes, but IDK why that manager keep giving chance after chance
Go away
could not give any more discussion about how poor raya? instead of just saying go away, could you give a good argument why we should keep playing that mistake prone keeper?
Arteta is a stubborn fuck. Remember Wilian. I think whatever Raya does, however many points he costs, he starts unfortunately.
Raya might come good at some point but playing Ramsdale would be the obvious move for a while.
Willian was a bad signing, but to throw that at Arteta four years down the line – after all that he has done in the meantime to take the club to where we are now – is beyond moronic.
Turn right at Finsbury Park up to Manor House. Then you hit the Seven Sisters road. When you get to the crossroads, turn left up onto the Tottenham High Road. Keep going until you reach the Toilet Bowl. Treat yourself to season ticket.
We are absolutely trash going forward this season. ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH. I’m fuming to be honest.
We have a quality injury prone forward in Jesus and then a back up striker who is championship player at best. Interesting once he went off we got into the box a few times with some nice link up play. Desperately need a striker in January but we won’t be winning league this season me thinks. We looked so much better last season before we lost Jesus and saliba
We never looked like scoring did we? And how many times did Martinelli take the ball forward and then stop, pass it back again??? Got to take risks and engage those defenders!!!
Agree but maybe, and I don’t know, he and saka (who’s clearly not fit) are playing to the managers instructions? If so wtf is MA8 seeing that we’re not? MA8 take the fucking handbrake off from our 2 wide players
Problem with our attack is that Jesus and Ode are injured, and Saka and Martinelli are not playing their best football to carry the team. Also Jorginho is not Partey, and the team misses his line breaking passes. But then that makes signing of Havertz very strange instead of getting a proper replacement of Xhaka or either a good back up striker.
Are you having a laugh?
Check out the number of goals we have scored already compared to most of the other teams in the Premiership this season thus far.
Back in the day a deliberate forearm in the head, off the ball, was a sending off no?
No, it just wouldn’t be a foul but Viera is Portuguese so he falls if a feather lands on him funny
What’s Viera got to do with it Wengerball?
He is backing the refs all over this chat. Very strange selfblaming attitude.
as a portuguese, i would like to thank you!
luis figo
Apparently ‘forearm’ is totally different from ‘elbow’ according to the VAR statement.
It was the upper part of his forearm, which includes the elbow. The lower part of his forearm might include the fist. I can’t believe we need to discuss this, it was an off-the-ball premeditated blow to the side of the head, sneakily disguised so he didn’t see it coming – but somehow not violent enough.
I remember people saying “you can’t put your hand in someone’s face” forearm to the head is ok apparently.
Yes Paul, like Bergkamp getting straight red for pointing 👉 but finger accidentally making contact with player’s chest.
ITWGX it would’ve been a straight red for attempted murder, but Guimaraes and Newcastle can foul all night with impunity.
I can’t deal with this. It’s a robbery from VAR. Spurs are unbeaten, City are points and goals ahead of us. I feel sick. The only thing to fix this is a winning run of 5 games.
The fixx is in!
PMGOL can only be this bad and inconsistent on purpose.
And Nketiah needs to be replaced by Luis Suarez in his prime (for example) if we are hoping to top this league.
I’m out of words.
Stockley Park is state owned…..heads up 3 wins in a row coming up
A decent battling performance that deserved a point and no more.
We came to a tough ground and competed. Good. But no creativity and nobody to finish anything that we did. Eddie? Same as usual.
But Newcastle created nothing either.
And Surprise, surprise! We’re talking about referees again!! IT WAS CLEARLY A FOUL!!! That goal had to be disallowed.
And please tell me why Raya is a better goalie than Ramsdale? He was at fault again.
BRING BACK RAMSDALE. NOW!!!
A frustrating evening.
that fucking ARSEta should be in bed with raya, raya should have the best BJ service for the manager, fucking unbelievable, that keeper every single game makes at least 1 single mistake, but that fucking genius manager keep give chance after chance, playing a keeper who always make at least single mistake is like asking to be defeated
Does this absolute dross have to be allowed in the comments section
Arseblog is really toxic anymore.
The most balanced and fair assessment of the match
I agree
And referees swanning off to the middle east to earn pocket money refereeing games over there should NOT be allowed to referee games involving Saudi owned clubs here. It stinks of corruption and back handers!
I fully expect a referee apology come Monday from Howard fucking Webb for that laughably wrong decision!
A grounded Fats comment…blimey.
Back to “we could play for hours and still not score” again. What has happened to our wide play? Saka and Martinelli have lost all their potency and as for Eddie…
How did those mofos in black and white ended with 11 men. Its ridiculous. That aside, we never looked like scoring.. this is worrying really. Our flow of football this season has somewhat regress a lil as compared to last. Missed opportunity in summer to bolster the wings and upfront…
VAR absolute shocking decision, Ball clearly out and then clear push on Gabriel. But, and this is a big but. This was another game where were offered nothing going forward, we could have played all day and not scored. Im sick to death of seeing Nketiah start up front, no hold up play and doesn’t/cant involve himself in build up play. Martinelli has no support on the left and teams just double/treble up on him. I have no idea what is wrong with Saka this season but each week it’s like he’s getting worse. There is no creativity in our… Read more »
This, basically. The goal should have been ruled out.
But we offered very little in attack. Saka and Martinelli are both good, but aren’t enough to carry the team in the absence of any other scoring threat.
I’ve tried to be patient on Havertz, but he certainly doesn’t offer enough to justify what was spent on him.
Rice on the other hand, bossed it again. Totally worth the money.
Some fella as thick as platted cow dung was saying on here in the week that nketia is a beast, links play etc, he had a great opportunity to play in martinelli in loads of space on edge of area and tried to go himself and surprise surprise lost the ball. Hoping we bring centre forward in to support challenge Jesus as we are fecked otherwise
Enough of this. There’s to much money in the EPL for it to not be corrupted. The Var decisions against us, and other teams, this year are insane. There has to be money involved in those decisions. I refuse to believe that the Var refs can’t see at least the clear foul on Gabriel and the bright red on Guimares elbow against Jorginho. I want Arsenal to launch a complaint and get a investigation going. This is corrupted and I will lose interest really soon if something aint done about it. If there’s no bribes involved, there are, then the… Read more »
If there was any doubt that the referees were corrupt, Mike Deans horse won on Friday and he was shouting it out that he had a massive touch on it at 66/1.
You couldn’t have scripted it here better. At 66-1 I’ve had a right touch on it!
Former Premier League referee Mike Dean was delighted after Jump The Gun, the outsider he owns as part of the Let’s Be Lucky Racing syndicate, struck at Newcastle on Friday
We were not good today but VAR and the ref nailed this one. Ball was out and a clear foul on Gabriel.
Raya and Havertz. Have they made the team stronger or weaker? What would you make of it.
Raya and Havertz, in their current form, clearly make the team weaker.
They keep saying “no goal line tech” for a ball over the endline – but surely the offside lines could be drawn using the ball and the line? Is that just too obvious??
Look, that’s what happens when you don’t offer anything going forward all game. You leave yourself open to VAR doing what VAR does.
That goal should not have stood. Ball is clearly out of play. Why couldn’t VAR see that if we can? But this sort of stuff however unfair happens. We should be scoring despite the incompetent refs. We need a proper centre forward. We spent £65 million on Havertz and for that money you need a game changer. He ain’t that. Hope we buy Toney in January.
the ball out of play is debatable, remember japan goal against spain? but after that that fucking keeper should catch the pass
Who would’ve guessed that Havertz would be poop when we signed him, though?
(unfortunately there is no sarcasm font)
Summed us up in the last few minutes with Viera asking if it was ok to rake a free kick ? Individualism drilled out of the forwards ! VAR I have no words & Atwell is has been & always be dreadful !
The result didn’t go our way. But today proved that we are on the title race for real! I’ve never been prouder of arsenal including Raya! He could have done better with their goal. But hey, not every team would hold their own in that atmosphere as we did today. Even Havertz had probably his best game in arsenal shirt. But for a fraudulent VAR decision, there’s no way Newcastle was going to beat us today.
Still a long season. Let’s not dismay. COYG!!
Our defense was generally excellent. The team showed great spirit and didn’t let their heads go down. We were the better team all match, away at a feisty stadium. Our midfield was iffy apart from Rice and attack was shit apart from Martinelli. It should’ve been 0-0. But I don’t blame the Saudis, VAR etc. for the loss. We managed 1 shot on goal the whole game.
talking from the bottom of my heart!
Saudis influence might have edged the game 😭
More Ramsdale and less Havertz please.
And what exactly are the VAR refs watching while the game is going on? A blow to the back of the head even gets called in ice hockey ffs.
Ødegaard missing out was always going to be tough for us after Jesus and Partey. That is roughly a third of our first team out!.
Newcastle was there for the taking.
Sadly, Saka’s influence in games is almost nonexistent without Ødegaard.
All in all, it’s a bad but not damaging defeat to our title ambitions. But the team must go on a little run between now and December.
At this stage i would take anyone but raya in goal truly shocking
I think this match is another example of Arteta’s football being too rigid when plan A isn’t working. Not for the first time this season we were unable to put the opposition under any meaningful pressure when in need of a goal. The best we seem to be able to generate are hopeful crosses. Everything is played in front of the opponent, there’s very little pass and move, few runs in behind and it’s all too static. We’re a solid team now in general but when we need to increase the tempo and be a bit more expansive we often… Read more »
Dan Burn should’ve been sent off. Bruno G should’ve been sent off. Probably Havertz too.
But that’s not why we came away from that game with zero points.
Arteta will lose us the league this season with his constant use of average players.
and keep playing his secret boyfriend, raya
His tactics and managing of the squad isn’t doing any of them a favour tbh
Just watched Sky’s slo-mo replay of the goal – shows the ball ricochet off both Joelinton’s arms (the two arms that are illegally pushing Gabriel out of the way). No one mentions this! Infuriating
The ball was clearly over the line. Gabriel was clearly fouled. The refs clearly stole this match from us. Gonna stop taking this Premier League s*#% so seriously. It’s a bit of a bad joke isn’t it.
and the keeper clearly should catch the ball
Agreed. It was a howler for a keeper that had been brought in and unceremoniously presented as an improvement on Ramsdale. But the truth is that with professional refereeing the play was dead before he made the mistake.
The loss can be divided into three parts. Without Martin,Jesus and a fit Partey we are just not good enough to break down the best defensive team in the League. The goal was initially caused by awful defending from White and error again from Raya. I thin the keeper switch has backfired om is,Raya doesn’t give enough advantages compared with the errors in him. Third and most serious – something is rotten in the kingdom of PGMOL. You can’t no longer blame om human errors and apologize afterwards. Just that they allow referees to go to Saudi for high paiid… Read more »
I mean, it couldn’t have gone better for Newcastle, get a sketchy goal, put 11 men behind the ball…Tempted to write it off as just one of those shit days thats been coming for a while now. But we do need a propa killer at number 9 though… as likeable as he is, Eddie ain’t it.