This cost us the game on reflection - Newcastle 0 Arsenal 2 nufc
This cost us the game on reflection – Newcastle 0 Arsenal 2Around this time in 2022, Newcastle completely outclassed an Arsenal side who, as a result, lost their grip on the final Champions League place to their biggest rivals.
In amongst all of this there was another chapter in this head to head that I think has proven equally important. In the first fixture of 2023, United headed to the Emirates and shut the home side out entirely, the 0-0 draw remarkable as the first time Arsenal had failed to win in all competitions at home this season and the first time they had failed to score anywhere. I wonder how big the impact of this match was, as this was the first example of gaps appearing in the armour.
However, never mind that, for our part many Newcastle fans were getting a bit uptight at the sight of Liverpool three points behind us after a week of jammy home wins . On balance, you had to look at the two games in hand and consider United could feasibly lose both today and at Leeds and still have a three point advantage with the same games played, but Newcastle fans don’t really do balance and nerves were bristling a bit.
This delay and overturn cost us the game on reflection. Moments after the overturn and with Arsenal having bafflingly been awarded the ball, they took it up the other end and scored. Odegaard wasn’t closed down by Joelinton and his shot went through the legs of Botman to beat Pope inside the post.
The second half started in a similar fashion to the first and played out with a similar degree of frustration. Isak thumped a power header against the Gallowgate post which again wouldn’t rebound kindly for us and Schar rose to meet a free kick but headed close enough for Ramsdale to save well.
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