Online Reporter
NEWCASTLE. – The reigning champions might not slip up on too many occasions so Arsenal have to be bang on it.
And thanks to Gabriel Magalhaes and his winner deep in stoppage time, in a 2-1 win over Newcastle, Mikel Arteta’s team won a game they looked like blowing despite their early dominance.
Newcastle were hanging on to a first half goal from Nick Woltemade when sub Mikel Merino levelled with six minutes left before Brazilian defender Gabriel headed the second in the sixth minute of injury-time following Martin Odegaard’s corner.
Arteta, angry for much of the game after Arsenal wasted their early dominance, celebrated wildly at the end and you can hardly blame him.
So despite losing at Liverpool and only scraping a point against Manchester City, Arsenal are back within two points of the leaders.
And if Arteta does finally lead Arsenal to the title, he will remember this game as his team showed some real guts when everything seemed to be going against them.
Arsenal were sensational for the first 30 minutes of this game should have been out of sight, 4-0 up.
Criticised for playing with the handbrake on, Arsenal produced the type of dazzling performance we witnessed a couple of years ago but it all went wrong after they had a penalty ruled out by VAR.
Arsenal were then livid as they felt Gabriel was fouled when Woltemade scored by Gabriel went down far too easily.
Equally, Arteta, although unhappy with some of the decisions, has to look at himself. − The Sun
