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.
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
If we're really not going to win the league, then I think we need to hammer the refs. Call out every incident. Take the fines. We can't pay off the refs - we'd need to outbid Qatar.