Key occasions
74 min: Slapstick scenes as Raya claims a Newcastle free kick, then makes an attempt to ship Trossard free with a protracted hoof upfield. The ball pings off the again of the unlucky referee, a lot to everybody’s annoyance. However at 4-0, everybody quickly sees the humorous facet.
73 min: Newcastle make a triple change, sending on Burn, Willock and Lascelles for Livramento, Guimaraes and Botman. The latter has had an absolute shocker.
72 min: That now 19 objectives from set items this season for Arsenal. Concede a nook at your peril.
71 min: Kiwior celebrated the purpose as his personal, nevertheless it didn’t look as if the flick was heading in, quite crusing throughout the face of purpose earlier than Miley’s unlucky intervention. The Premier League will little doubt take one other look to double verify, however that is the place we’re proper now.
GOAL! Arsenal 4-0 Newcastle United (Miley og 69)
Trossard wins a nook down the left. Rice takes. Murphy heads behind. Rice takes once more. Bedlam on the close to put up. Kiwior flicks on. The ball pings off Miley and into the highest left. Newcastle a defensive shambles.
67 min: Arsenal have been excellent this night. However Newcastle have contributed to their very own downfall. Botman was so sloppy forward of that purpose. Eddie Howe might be giving his defenders some direct recommendation in a while, I’ll be sure.
GOAL! Arsenal 3-0 Newcastle United (Saka 65)
Botman’s distribution has been abysmal all night, and he’s at fault right here once more. He needlessly ships possession to Havertz, and Arsenal stream ahead. Saka is slipped into the field from the appropriate. He chops infield to see off Livramento with ease, earlier than passing calmly throughout Karius and into the underside left. The keeper with no probability. One other great purpose!
64 min: Newcastle reply with two of their very own, hooking Isak and Almiron and sending on Barnes and Murphy.
63 min: Arsenal make their first change of the night, changing Martinelli with Trossard.
62 min: One purpose would change all the pieces, in fact, and Guimaraes sprays a sensational diagonal ball in the direction of Isak on the left flank. Isak brings it down with a gossamer contact, cuts infield, and whistles a shot over the bar. You’ve seen him plant these into the highest nook earlier than. That might have been one hell of a purpose.
59 min: Saka tries to spring Havertz into area down the left solely to clank an uncharacteristically poor go out for a purpose kick.
58 min: White wedges a go down the appropriate within the hope of releasing Saka. Botman does extraordinarily properly to maintain up with Saka and shepherd the ball out for a purpose kick. Arsenal’s play is nowhere close to as intense now, however then it doesn’t actually have to be.
56 min: Newcastle probe across the edges of the Arsenal field however the house defence holds agency. Raya nonetheless hasn’t had any severe work to do that night, holding off Isak aside.
54 min: Arsenal haven’t reached the inventive heights of the primary half but. Irrespective of, the reminiscence of that efficiency lives on, and the Emirates is en fête. The house followers entertaining themselves through the medium of tune.
52 min: Not that Newcastle are completely again in control. Martinelli skins Longstaff down the left with absurd ease and the midfielder is lucky that the next low cross is intercepted properly by Almiron.
51 min: Gabriel leaves a calling card on the again of Isak’s head. Trippier pumps the free kick lengthy into the field however Arsenal cope with it simply sufficient. Newcastle have a minimum of turned up for the second half, in contrast to the one which preceded it.
49 min: Gordon cuts in from the left and takes a shot from the sting of the field. Raya smothers. That’s Newcastle’s first shot on course. In response to TNT, this match is the primary time Newcastle haven’t mustered an effort on purpose within the first half within the Premier League since March 2014 in opposition to Southampton. So this represents one thing of an advance.
48 min: Yep, it ought to be over, and that miss practically takes on sudden significance as Isak tries to spherical Raya solely to get the ball caught underneath his ft. It might have been 3-0, it might have been 2-1. However right here we’re.
47 min: It ought to be three. Saka drives exhausting on the Newcastle again line earlier than carving it open down the center. He strokes a go by to launch Havertz, who makes an attempt to go into the bottom-right nook, solely to ping it large. This ought to be over.
Newcastle get the second half began. No adjustments, Newcastle’s beginning XI presumably having been informed to return out and proper some wrongs.
Half-time postbag. “With Metropolis being nowhere close to nearly as good as they’ve been the previous couple of seasons and Liverpool being three accidents away from giving me a name, certainly that is Arsenal’s greatest probability of successful the league? The truth that they appear to be on a mission to attain 5 objectives in each sport the remainder of the season most likely additionally helps” – Espen B
“This season the Gunners have made tighter defences than the Magpies’ look flimsier than a four-year-old’s cowl story for why there’s ice-cream throughout their face earlier than supper. Nevertheless it’s been placing that Newcastle defenders hold working in the direction of spots the place the Arsenal attackers aren’t. No matter system they’re utilizing isn’t working anymore” – Kári Tulinius
Half-time leisure.
HALF TIME: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle United
Nothing occurs within the different two, both, and Newcastle traipse off, having been given the royal runaround. The two-0 scoreline severely flatters them, such has been Arsenal’s elegant dominance. If the guests are to by some means get again into this, Eddie Howe has some severe work to do through the break.
45 min +1: The primary of three added minutes drifts by with out incident.
45 min: A 3rd lengthy go in as many minutes by Newcastle, down the appropriate once more, this time for Almiron. Raya once more comes out to do his job. A blueprint for Newcastle within the second half right here? It’s as harmful as they’ve regarded, even when that bar is ready absurdly low, and assault might be one of the best type of defence.
44 min: One other lengthy ball by Newcastle, this time down the appropriate. Isak can’t get there earlier than Raya, who rushes out of his field to hammer clear.
43 min: Almiron is all of a sudden sprung clear down the left. He attracts Raya, solely to weakly waft an effort straight on the keeper, who claims. Then the flag goes up for offside anyway.
42 min: Rice goals a no-backlift rising shot in the direction of the highest proper. Karius handles it with aplomb. The flag goes up for offside anyway, however that was good dealing with.
41 min: Guimaraes is again up and working, boot again on. “Newcastle’s transformation this season from spiky vertebrate to passive invertebrate has been one thing to behold,” writes Niall Mullen. “I’m certain we’ll all need to bow down earlier than their crushing dominance within the close to future so in the intervening time I for one am going to get pleasure from them being a ways from stellar.”
40 min: Guimaraes does the skilled factor and goes down with a boot grievance. Time for Newcastle to regroup within the hope of getting by to half-time with out taking any extra punishment.
38 min: Saka hip-shakes between two effort-free Livramento and Gordon challenges, making area to shoot down the inside-right channel. His rising shot is tipped away expertly by Karius. Nothing comes of the nook. Nearly as good as Arsenal’s relentless press has been, Newcastle’s resistance to it’s pitiful.
37 min: Longstaff slaps a easy go out straight at Rice, who makes an attempt to arrange Havertz. Newcastle are lucky the pair overthink it and execute their plan poorly.
35 min: Now Longstaff is caught napping, providing Martinelli the chance to blaze over from the sting of the field. Quantity three is within the put up.
34 min: When even Guimaraes seems to be rattled, you realize you’re in bother. He clumsily passes straight out of play for a nook. Nothing comes of the set piece, however Newcastle have to cop on shortly, as a result of extra objectives are coming in the event that they hold taking part in as dozily as this.
33 min: On TNT, Ally McCoist factors out that Newcastle aren’t urgent in any respect, and that passive method is costing them expensive, regardless of how good Arsenal are. Chris Paraskevas agrees: “Tactically, it appears like Eddie Howe is shutting the gate after the horse has bolted. I can assume of some different conditions this season the place sitting deep and absorbing stress would have labored properly for us (Milan and Dortmund at house?). The large drawback tonight is no-one within the Newcastle Beginning XI has adopted the appropriate mentality, standing off and ready for an error. Too many Arsenal gamers with time and area in our penalty field. Not sufficient grit in midfield. And crucially: no out ball for Isak and Gordon, and no try and stress Raya (who has regarded dodgy with ball at ft tonight). The place’s Andy Carroll once you want him?”
31 min: Guimaraes catches Jorginho late and is lucky to keep away from the reserving that might set off an automated two-game suspension. When the sport restarts, Odegaard releases Saka down the appropriate with a cute backheel. Saka crosses to the in-rushing Martinelli, who can’t hold his header down from 12 yards. Had he planted that one house, it might have been one other picture-book purpose. Arsenal are purring.
30 min: Saliba launches lengthy, in search of Havertz. Karius reads the hazard, racing out of his field to blooter clear.
