Arsenal 4-1 Newcastle United (Feb 24, 2024) Game Analysis

Rampant Arsenal remained sizzling on the heels of the highest two within the title battle with an emphatic 4-1 victory over a struggling Newcastle United facet within the Premier League on Saturday at a rocking Emirates Stadium.

An personal objective by Sven Botman and a easy Kai Havertz end put the house facet 2-0 up on the break following a siege on the Newcastle objective earlier than Bukayo Saka and Jakub Kiwior struck within the second half to comfortably wrap up the factors.

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Arsenal’s sixth successive Premier League victory this 12 months took Mikel Arteta’s third-placed facet to 58 factors after 26 video games, two behind leaders Liverpool and some extent adrift of Manchester City, who earlier received 1-0 at Bournemouth.

“It’s crucial to win games and we have to put pressure on [Liverpool and Manchester City] and that is what we will do,” goalscorer Havertz instructed TNT Sports. “The fans give us so much energy that’s so important for us — it gives us a big boost.”

Arsenal opened the scoring after 18 minutes when the ball bounced off Newcastle defender Botman’s knee into his personal objective following a goalmouth scramble after goalkeeper Loris Karius made a high quality save from a Gabriel header at a nook.

Six minutes later it was 2-0 when Havertz tucked the ball dwelling from the sting of the six-yard field following a cutback by Gabriel Martinelli on the correct byline after a intelligent chipped go from Jorginho left the Newcastle defence uncovered once more.

Arsenal’s domination was mirrored of their 64% first-half possession with 12 objective makes an attempt, together with 4 heading in the right direction, whereas Newcastle did not register a shot within the opening interval of a Premier League recreation for the primary time since March 2014.

Saka put the sport past the guests with Arsenal’s third within the sixty fifth, his thirteenth within the league this season, when he ran down the correct and minimize inside earlier than firing into the far nook earlier than Kiwior headed dwelling a Declan Rice nook to make it 4-0.

Former Arsenal ahead Willock obtained Newcastle on the scoresheet with a high quality looping header into the far nook after 84 minutes following a pinpoint Dan Burn cross however by then it was all far to late for Eddie Howe’s floundering crew.

Arsenal have scored 15 objectives of their final three Premier League video games and the win over Newcastle was the proper tonic following their late 1-0 loss at Porto in a disappointing Champions League round-of-16 first-leg show in midweek.

“I think it was very important [to win] it was a tough game on Wednesday [in Portugal] and we wanted to win today — we did well today,” added Havertz.

The defeat leaves Newcastle in eighth place on 37 factors.

“Arsenal were very good, we weren’t and we got punished,” stated Howe. “We were off in most aspects of our games, we didn’t do the basics right.”