He smiles Newcastlehe is left with an unfriendly face Arsenal and the VAR continues to do its thing, leaving many with the feeling of not understanding anything at all. The match played this Saturday at St.James’ Park between the ‘magpies’ and the ‘gunners’ ended 1-0 and that only goal that tipped the balance in favor of the Eddie Howe He was more than involved in controversy. Its author was Anthony Gordon but it took almost five minutes and up to four actions to be reviewed by the VAR to give it validity. The one that generated the most controversy was a possible lack of Joelinton about Gabriel in a disputed area. It seemed clear, but the referee and the VAR considered that it had not existed and determined that the goal should go up on the scoreboard.
Before everything mentioned, which happened halfway through the second part, Newcastle y Arsenal They were more than balanced with each other. They missed those of Mikel Arteta the creativity of Martin Odegaard and the determination of Gabriel Jesus. The Norwegian and the Brazilian are injured and no matter how much the Basque coach searches his squad, he does not have players with whom to replace both.
He Newcastle, for his part, willingly accepted the face of exchange of blows that was put on the match from the beginning, interpreting that as the minutes passed the push of a fully dedicated stand should favor him. It will never be known if the referee also felt intimidated into validating the aforementioned goal. Gordon. And not if he did it conditionally because in the first half he could well have expelled Kai Havertz for a very hard entry on Longstaff and did not do it. Maybe he wanted to compensate, but whatever the case, the thing is that the goal went up the scoreboard. It was in the 64th minute when Jacob Murphy prevented the ball from going out of bounds ‘in extremis’ before centering into the area for Joelinton fought with Gabriel. The Brazilian leaned on the Arsenal centre-back but the referee did not consider the action a foul and therefore understood that the subsequent shot by Gordonwith an empty goal, deserved to be a goal.
From then on, the Arsenal He tried by all means to find the goal that would at least save a point, but he couldn’t. He roared St. James’ Park with the final whistle and surely the ‘Gunner’ defeat was also celebrated within teams like the Manchester City, Tottenham and Liverpool, rivals of Arteta’s men in the fight for the title. He Newcastle He wants to get into that fight, and he is not too far away.
2023-11-04 19:52:38
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