Post-Newcastle quotes round-up: Arteta, Howe, Saliba, Wright & more
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A first half Alexander Isak header saw Newcastle condemn Arsenal to a 1-0 defeat and a third consecutive Premier League game without a win on Saturday lunchtime.
Isak rose to nod home an inch-perfect Anthony Gordon cross after just 14 minutes, leaving the Gunners with a hill to climb in the north-east and a comeback never looked on, with Mikel Arteta’s side failing to register a single shot on target in the second half. The defeat
Here's what the managers, the players, the pundits and the stats had to say …
Mikel Arteta on the failure to create chances …
When you have to face this team, from the moment they go ahead you’re going to have to play a different game. You have to adapt to that, we didn’t well enough, we didn’t find enough answers to the questions and situations [that] you have to resolve better.
Source: TNT Sports
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Eddie Howe on Newcastle’s approach …
Maybe a slightly different game to the one we expected it to be but I think, once we scored, I thought Arsenal played well and we were just content to defend well and I think we had to defend well, they’ve got threats all over the pitch, so I’m really pleased about the defensive performance.
Source: TNT Sports
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Arsenal won just 43% of their duels against Newcastle. It’s the fourth time this season they’ve won under 45% of their duels in a league game, something that happened only five times across the entirety of last season. #NEWARSpic.twitter.com/NXK2FNldXb
— Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) November 2, 2024
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Martin Keown on Martin Odegaard …
He can't come back quick enough. I'm told he'll be back for Wednesday.
Source: TNT Sports
Mikel Arteta on inconsistency …
The level of consistency we demand of ourselves to be more of a threat, we didn’t realise today. We needed more.
Credit to them and what they do, how they do it, but us, with the ball especially, we were in consistent in certain actions, we didn’t threaten the goal enough, we didn’t have enough purpose in certain areas.
Source: BBC Match of the Day
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Newcastle 1 : 0 Arsenal
xG: 0.6 – 0.67
xThreat: 0.86 – 2.07
Possession: 36.7% – 63.3%
Field Tilt: 29.6% – 70.4%
Def Action Height: 42.9 – 53.0#msbot_eng#eplpic.twitter.com/vLzLe96vzC— markstats bot (@markstatsbot) November 2, 2024
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William Saliba on the mood …
We are all a bit sad because we wanted to win today. Unfortunately we didn’t and we didn’t play the game we wanted to play. We deserved to lose today I think. I think we didn’t play how we wanted to play and they were good as well. It’s OK, we are focused on the next week and it is not finished.
Source: ESPN
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Mikel Arteta on the title race …
After eight, nine or 10 games last year we didn’t [talk about it] and we won’t talk about it now. It’s about how you react to that. We’re not going to find the right words or answers to describe how we feel. We have to put it on that field on Wednesday night against Inter.
It’s not about the hope of winning the title, it’s about being our best selves every single week. Today we weren’t our best version.
Source: football.london
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Arsenal failed to register a shot on target in the second half against Newcastle.
It’s the first time that’s happened in a Premier League game since 31 December 2023 vs Fulham #NEWARSpic.twitter.com/XrU8d4IHvZ
— Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) November 2, 2024
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Ian Wright on the blunt attack …
It was a very poor performance from the team that are supposedly title contenders but we pass the ball very slowly. There’s no energy in the team. It’s very predictable. Yes, we are missing Odegaard, our chief creator. But for us to not be able to find a solution to that. Again, you look at the Bournemouth game, one shot on target, this game, one shot on target.
Source: Premier League
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Eddie Howe on keeping Arsenal out …
It was 95 minutes of concentration and consistency in our attitude. We managed and controlled some very good players pretty well today.
Source: BBC Match of the Day
Arsenal's second half passes vs. Newcastle United.
@footballontntpic.twitter.com/Z73ixDpHIE
— afcstuff (@afcstuff) November 2, 2024
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Saliba on what’s next …
Next week we have two big games to come back with the win. I think we will do it if we give everything. [Inter is] a big game, if we win we have the confidence back and we have to do it. We all want to play big games like these.
Source:Arsenal
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Arteta on missing Odegaard …
We don't have him. You know, we can discuss all day long that at the moment we don't have him, we haven't had him for the last 4-6 weeks and we don't have him yet, but we have many other answers which have been very effective. Today, we need to look at ourselves, congratulate Newcastle and move on.
Source:Arsenal
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There were eight bookings in the match. Joelinton who was penalised the most of any player in the game (4 fouls) was not shown a card. https://t.co/7rw6mnWbwb
— Orbinho (@Orbinho) November 2, 2024
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Arteta on finding a response …
It’s time to do it on the pitch. We can say whatever we want, probably we aren’t going to find the right words today because after losing a game you are hurt, but we are going to have to show it on the pitch on Wednesday night.
Source:TNT Sports
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