Newcastle didn't really do much wrong in their 2-0 defeat against Arsenal - apart from the obvious and important 'score the really good chances, yeah?' - but it's results that matter in May and that top-four spot looks far more precarious now.
Newcastle didn’t really do much wrong in their 2-0 defeat against Arsenal – apart from the obvious and important ‘score the really good chances, yeah?’ – but it’s results that matter in May and that top-four spot looks far more precarious now.It’s very easy to get drawn in by ‘results bias’ after games like that. Martin Odegaard smacks one through Sven Botman’s legs and into the bottom corner.
And the result means that the decision to start Callum Wilson and Alexander Isak in tandem for the first timeThat’s just undeniable, sadly. A quick look at the scoring record of both players in the last couple of months versus the chances that came their way today cannot be ignored. The fact both strikers played pretty well doesn’t change that; if anything it makes it worse. Makes it look more like an issue of structure rather than a more easily explained off day for one or both men.
Newcastle still created chances, but in open play they fell mainly to Jacob Murphy or Joe Willock, with the centre-backs prominent from set-pieces. Every one of those set-pieces also seemed to involved Dan Burn looking comically oversized, like the one giant 11-year-old every school football team has, and it remains a mystery why Newcastle don’t simply have him just score all headers from every set-piece. Especially with Kieran Trippier’s delivery. They’d probably win the league.
Newcastle’s development in recent months from a decent team built on a pragmatic, safety-first foundation into something far more proactive and front foot has been a wonderful sight but this was a mis-step. Could have worked, but it didn’t.
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