LONDON (Reuters) -Arsenal returned to successful methods and deepened Newcastle United’s relegation worries as targets by Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli sealed a cushty 2-0 Premier League win on Saturday.
Backside membership Newcastle had new supervisor Eddie Howe on the touchline for the primary time, but it surely made no distinction as they had been effectively overwhelmed and stay with out a league win after 13 video games.
Arsenal, whose 10-match unbeaten run in all competitions got here to a juddering halt at Liverpool final week, dominated the opening half with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang lacking a sitter.
However their endurance was rewarded as Saka completed beautifully within the 56th minute earlier than substitute Martinelli volleyed the second along with his first contact.
Newcastle’s Jonjo Shelvey was denied by the woodwork within the first half however as soon as they went behind, a Seventeenth defeat in 18 league video games towards Arsenal seemed inevitable.
Arsenal stayed fifth within the desk, stage on factors with fourth-placed West Ham United whereas Newcastle, who’ve six factors and are 5 behind Seventeenth-placed Leeds United, are the sixth totally different group to fail to win any of their opening 13 Premier League video games.
Of these, solely Derby County in 2000-01 survived relegation.
Howe, who needed to watch final week’s 3-3 draw towards Brentford from a lodge room as a consequence of a optimistic COVID-19 take a look at, took some encouragement from his group’s show.
“I believed it was a very good efficiency, particularly the beginning. We had been good for the primary half an hour,” he stated.
“The pleasing factor in the present day is how we began and completed the sport. We created probabilities.”
RAW AFTERNOON
On a uncooked afternoon in north London, there was little to heat the hearts of Newcastle’s travelling Toon Military.
Their aspect had been resolute and had Aaron Ramsdale not tipped Shelvey’s curling effort towards the crossbar issues might need been totally different.
Arsenal had been over-deliberate however nonetheless carved out probabilities with Saka simply failing to attain on the stretch from Nuno Tavares’s excellent diagonal move.
Newcastle keeper Martin Dubravka, recalled for his first look of the season rather than Karl Darlow after recovering from harm, produced an acrobatic save to maintain out Martin Odegaard’s free kick.
As halftime approached, Dubravka saved Emile Smith Rowe’s header and because the ball fell for Aubameyang he contrived to hit the put up with the aim gaping.
When Arsenal lastly cracked Newcastle’s defence it was no shock Saka and Smith Rowe had been concerned.
The latter mixed effectively with Tavares who slipped a move in for Saka to fireplace left-footed previous Dubravka from a slender angle.
Newcastle claimed a penalty when Callum Wilson chased Shelvey’s lengthy move ahead however was knocked off steadiness by the masking Gabriel and inside a minute they had been two down.
Martinelli, who had simply changed the injured Saka, was picked out by a flighted move from Takehiro Tomiyasu and as Dubravka got here out the Brazilian planted a volley into the web.
Newcastle now face back-to-back house video games towards fellow strugglers Norwich Metropolis and Burnley.
“We simply have to take a look at the primary one,” Howe stated. “Momentum in soccer is so necessary. We have to get that win as rapidly as we are able to.”
(Reporting by Martyn Herman, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
