Mikel Arteta admitted his Arsenal aspect deserved to lose at Newcastle this afternoon.
The Gunners had been surprisingly torpid at St James’ Park and couldn’t discover a response after falling behind to Alexander Isak’s Twelfth-minute header.
Arsenal slipped to fourth place within the Premier League following Nottingham Forest’s 3-0 win over West Ham however, maybe extra worryingly, they’re now seven factors behind table-toppers Liverpool.
It ends in defeat at St James’ Park.
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Arteta mentioned: “We deserved to lose at the moment. I believed we began very well and had been actually dominant. We didn’t defend the field properly sufficient, credit score to them. They scored an excellent objective with an excellent ball.
“Then the sport adjustments and also you begin to play a unique sport. It’s important to adapt and we didn’t try this properly sufficient. I’m very annoyed.
“We received dragged right into a sport they’re in search of continually and we couldn’t play the sport that we needed.
“We had two large possibilities – Mikel [Merino] had a giant one, Declan [Rice] had a giant one. We lacked solutions.”
Too early to debate title race
Arsenal might have moved inside two factors of defending champions and favourites Manchester Metropolis with a win after Pep Guardiola’s aspect had been surprisingly crushed at Bournemouth.
However Arteta insisted it was too early to speak in regards to the title race simply 10 video games in.
“I perceive that, however after eight, 9 or 10 video games final yr we didn’t [talk about it] and we received’t speak about it now,” he mentioned.
“It’s about the way you react to that. We’re not going to search out the precise phrases or solutions to explain how we really feel. We have now to place it on that subject on Wednesday evening towards Inter [Milan].”
Joyful Howe
The win got here as nice reduction to Newcastle boss Eddie Howe, whose aspect had gone 5 league video games with out tasting victory.
He mentioned: “It’s important to be actually sturdy mentality and know outcomes will flip if you happen to proceed to do the precise issues.
“At the moment’s efficiency was constructed on exhausting work, need and loads of actually good defending within the second half. I believed we regarded good.”
