Newcastle, England – The “never” beaten the “almost” men. Newcastle United is now a final of the Carabao Cup far from ending their endless 56 years, wait for a major trophy while questions develop on Arsenal’s ability to cap their progress with silverware.
On Wednesday, there was an irresistible determination in Newcastle. Presented by an advance of 2-0 of the first stage, the Park of St James filled with the burst of the point under the lights with desperate supporters to free themselves from the burden of almost six decades in the dark.
Alexander Isaac tormented the normally imperturbable central association of William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhães. Newcastle changed systems, defended in number and looked deadly on the break.
The combination overwhelmed Arsenal, while Newcastle swept them away with goals from Jacob Murphy And Anthony Gordon To win 2-0. This sets up a centerpiece of Wembley against Liverpool or Tottenham when the chance to win the trophy that escaped them during the 2023 final against Manchester United will be again within their reach.
The Gunners started the season by watching larger prices, but getting closer to success to be refused again to proof against them being able to overcome the line.
Twice, they pushed Manchester City all along the Premier League and twice they were refused. Mikel Arteta won the FA Cup 2020 in his first season with the club, but such was the spectacular overhaul during his time in charge that one player in the departure training that day – Kieran Tierney – is even even at the club.
This current group has become appropriate trucks from the Premier League and can still win the title or even the UEFA Champions League. But the feeling that they miss something – even with a complete list of players once Bukayo of And Gabriel Jesus Back of an injury – only grows like nights like this.
The club’s decision not to sign an attacker in January was a judgment: the right player was not available or too expensive. Sources have told ESPN that they had made an offer for Aston Villa Forward Ollie Watkins About 40 million pounds sterling when the price requested was 60 million pounds sterling.
They decided not to come back with another offer and with longer -term targets, especially Benjamin Šeško to RB Leipzig and – whisper quietly – Isak de Newcastle, they decided to follow what they have. It is a judgment that will finally define their season. Watching Isak Torment Torment Arsenal here was a painful reminder of what they lack.
Only a few days after Gabriel and Saliba gathered Erling Haaland – which certainly scored – with a large effect in a 5-1 battery of Manchester City, the pair seemed unable to manage the mixture of Isak of intelligent and technical quality.
The High Line had something to do with it. Arsenal estimated that they had to race given the deficit in the front row and Newcastle knew it, turning into a 5-4-1 form without the ball for the first time this season to invite visitors to them and hit the break.
It was generally the same match plan with a different system which earned them two 1-0 victories against Arsenal during their last two champion visits the last third. An injury to Gabriel Theminies will only exacerbate these concerns as Arteta later confirmed, the Brazilian will undergo a scan on his hamstrings on Thursday.
Arteta would indicate the triumph of the August community shield to counter the accusations of a lack of silverware and they can of course recover from this, starting with a training break in hot weather in Dubai who will feel far away of the freshness of the northeast of February.
“We have to swallow it, it’s difficult,” said Arteta.
“We had a lot of expectations. We knew the difficulty of the task because of the result we brought from London. But there is nothing we could do for the moment. What we could do was on the ground A few minutes ago, now we now have to wait forward.
“First of all, I think it will be painful. While we are in Dubai, recharge us and leave because we still have a lot to play (for).”
But it was nevertheless a night of punishment. The rivalry between these two parties has intensified in recent seasons and the evidence of this could be seen in the ferocity of the competition, when it has lasted anyway.
Isak had the ball in the net after four minutes with a sumptuous finish excluded by a tight Var call for offside. The tie turned into the space of about a minute as at one end, Martin Ødegaard hit the post when he should probably have to mark, then to the other, Isak ran clear. His sublime effort of the left foot struck the post, but Murphy found enough stretch in his setting to direct the rebound via a film of the opposite post.
Gordon put Newcastle 4-0 on the big ones David Raya Sous-Frappe a bullet for Declan Rice which Fabian Schär Intercepted so that Gordon ends intelligently.
Then the party started. “Mikel Arteta must be the ball,” sang the happy fans of Newcastle, in reference to the voluntary arteta the various football used in this competition as a possible reason for the finish of arsenal to drop them into the first leg he Four weeks ago.
But no oddity explains the result here. Newcastle fully deserved to move forward for another crack in Glory, summarizes the advertiser of the stadium greeting the final whistle with the words: “Book your trains, book your hotels, we are Ga’an in Wembley.”
The Newcastle path to silverware is clear. Not for the first time, Arsenal seems complicated.
