We deserved to lose at Newcastle

Mikel Arteta admitted his Arsenal facet deserved to lose at Newcastle this afternoon.

The Gunners have 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 right now. I believed we began very well and have been actually dominant. We didn’t defend the field properly sufficient, credit score to them. They scored an excellent purpose with a very good ball.

“Then the sport modifications and also you begin to play a special sport. It’s important to adapt and we didn’t do this properly sufficient. I’m very annoyed.

“We received dragged right into a sport they’re on the lookout for always and we couldn’t play the sport that we needed.

“We had two massive possibilities – Mikel [Merino] had an enormous one, Declan [Rice] had an enormous one. We lacked solutions.”

Too early to debate title race

Arsenal may have moved inside two factors of defending champions and favourites Manchester Metropolis with a win after Pep Guardiola’s facet have been surprisingly overwhelmed 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 gained’t discuss it now,” he mentioned.

“It’s about the way you react to that. We’re not going to search out the fitting phrases or solutions to explain how we really feel. Now we have to place it on that discipline on Wednesday evening towards Inter [Milan].”

Completely satisfied Howe

The win got here as nice reduction to Newcastle boss Eddie Howe, whose facet 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 in case you proceed to do the fitting issues.

“At this time’s efficiency was constructed on exhausting work, need and loads of actually good defending within the second half. I believed we appeared good.”