Arsenal showed ‘ambition’ of title winners in Newcastle win – Arteta

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said his broadside showed they are acceptable to spell to “the adjacent level” and triumph the Premier League aft scoring 2 precocious goals for a captious 2-1 triumph astatine Newcastle connected Sunday.

The Gunners took afloat vantage of Liverpool’s archetypal decision of the play astatine Crystal Palace 24 hours earlier to determination up to 2nd and wrong 2 points of the defending champions.

Nick Woltemade had enactment Newcastle successful beforehand against the tally of play successful the archetypal half.

Arsenal were headed for a damaging decision until Mikel Merino headed successful connected 84 minutes earlier Gabriel Magalhaes won the crippled successful the sixth infinitesimal of added time.

Arteta’s men person finished 2nd successful each of the past 3 seasons and person not won the rubric since 2004.

Victory astatine St. James’ Park, wherever they had mislaid successful each of their erstwhile 3 visits, silenced immoderate questions of Arsenal’s rubric credentials aft failing to bushed rubric rivals Liverpool and Manchester City successful the aboriginal weeks of the season.

“We discussed that to spell to the adjacent level, archetypal of all, you person to larn from the past and surely we instrumentality immoderate lessons and precise sore antithetic and sore moments successful this ground,” said Arteta of Arsenal ending their Newcastle hoodoo.

“Today was an accidental that the crippled brings you again successful a truly important week successful the Premier League aft each the pugnacious places that we’ve already been, precise aboriginal successful the season, to amusement who we are, who bash we privation to be, our ambition, and the mode that we privation to play.

“I deliberation the squad showed that contiguous successful a singular way.”

For Newcastle, it was a lawsuit of deja vu aft Liverpool scored a 100th-minute victor successful a 3-2 thriller astatine St. James’ Park past month.

Eddie Howe, though, accepted that his broadside are yet to deed the standards they did past play successful winning the League Cup and qualifying for the Champions League.

Newcastle person won lone 1 of their opening six Premier League games and mislaid their Champions League opener to Barcelona.

“Two truly precocious goals present astatine location hurts. We person to bespeak and admit that we weren’t astatine our best,” said Howe.

“There was not deficiency of effort but from a footballing side, it wasn’t rather there.”

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