He smiled Newcastlehe was left with an unfriendly face Arsenal and VAR continues to do its thing, leaving many feeling like they don’t understand anything. The match played this Saturday at St.James’ Park between the ‘magpies’ and ‘gunners’ ended 1-0 and that lone goal tipped the balance in favor of Eddie Howe He was more than involved in controversy. Its author was Anthony Gordon but it took about five minutes and up to four actions for VAR to review to give it validity. The one that has generated the most controversy is a possible lack of Joelinton about Gabriel in a disputed area. It seemed clear, but the referee and the VAR considered that it did not exist and determined that the goal should have gone up on the scoreboard.
Before all the above, which happened in the middle of the second part, Newcastle and Arsenal They more than balance each other. They missed those Mikel Arteta the creativity of Martin Odegaard and the determination of Gabriel Jesus. The Norwegian and the Brazilian were injured and no matter what the Basque coach searched for in his squad, he had no players to replace both.
He Newcastle, for his part, willingly accepted the face of the exchange of blows put into the fight from the beginning, which meant that as the minutes passed the push of a fully committed stance should be in his favor. It will never be known if the referee also felt fear in confirming the aforementioned goal. Gordon. And not if what he did was conditional because in the first half he could have been expelled Kai Havertz for a very difficult entry to Longstaff and not done. Maybe he wanted to pay, but whatever the case, the point is that the goal went up on the scoreboard. It’s the 64th minute Jacob Murphy prevents the ball from going out of bounds ‘in extremis’ before being centered in the area for Joelinton fought with Gabriel. The Brazilian lunged at the Arsenal centre-back but the referee did not consider the action a foul and therefore the subsequent shot by Gordonwith an empty purpose, ought to be a purpose.
Since then, the Arsenal He tried in every way to find the goal to at least save a point, but he couldn’t. St. thundered. James’ Park at the final whistle and certainly also celebrated the Gunners’ defeat of teams such as Manchester City, Tottenham and Liverpool, rivals Arteta’s men in the title fight. He Newcastle He wanted to get into that fight, and he wasn’t too far off.
Source: La Verdad
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