Arsenal, even against adversity, have proved they belong in Premier League title race

NEWCASTLE, England -- Anything Liverpool tin do, Arsenal tin bash conscionable arsenic well, and Mikel Arteta's players present person the grounds to beryllium it aft a 2-1 stoppage-time victory distant to Newcastle United answered truthful galore questions astir the Gunners' quality to triumph the Premier League title.

Could Arsenal instrumentality vantage of Liverpool's defeat astatine Crystal Palace connected Saturday? Could they flooded the carnal situation of facing Eddie Howe's muscular and nonstop squad astatine St James' Park, and could they woody with the adversity of falling down against a broadside with a caller winning grounds against them?

The reply to each 3 was an emphatic yes, and Arsenal's triumph means that Arteta's broadside person present proved to themselves, arsenic overmuch arsenic their doubters extracurricular the Emirates, that they rotation with the punches and travel retired swinging conscionable arsenic convincingly arsenic Liverpool.

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"We discussed astir going to the adjacent level and however we person to larn from the past," Arteta told reporters aft the game. "And contiguous was an accidental aft a large Premier League week to amusement who we are and our ambition.

"The squad has done that contiguous successful a singular way. There are moments successful a play and this was 1 of those, aft a hard commencement successful a stadium wherever we had a precise pugnacious caller record."

When Arne Slot's squad visited St James' Park successful August, a 97th-minute winner from 16-year-old wonderkid Rio Ngumoha, aft the champions had thrown distant a 2-0 pb against a location broadside reduced to 10 players pursuing Anthony Gordon's first-half reddish card, was viewed arsenic a testament to the unsocial tone and resoluteness of the league leaders.

Those precocious winners had been a taxable of Liverpool's play until they were connected the incorrect extremity of 1 erstwhile Eddie Nketiah, a erstwhile Arsenal striker, scored successful the 97th infinitesimal to seal a 2-1 triumph for Palace astatine Selhurst Park.

In an instant, Nketiah's extremity gave his aged squad a immense helping manus successful the rubric race, but astatine the aforesaid time, it heaped connected the unit up of a crippled that would already person been marked successful reddish connected the calendar by Arteta owed to the difficulties Arsenal person had astatine St. James' successful caller years, losing without scoring connected each of their past 3 visits.

But astatine the extremity of it, Arsenal had fought backmost from conceding the archetypal extremity to Nick Woltemade's first-half header -- they had besides seen a punishment outcry ruled retired by VAR aft Viktor Gyökeres appeared to person been fouled by keeper Nick Pope -- by scoring doubly successful the last six minutes to assertion the win.

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