Mikel Arteta knows a Premier League title challenge will be 'even harder' next season and beyond, but this Arsenal team proved their long-term credentials against Newcastle.
Arsenal bottle up title ‘fears’ to prove to Manchester City – and Arteta – they will challenge againMikel Arteta knows a Premier League title challenge will be “even harder” next season and beyond, but this Arsenal team proved their long-term credentials.It was interpreted by at least one sensationalist outlet as a Mikel Arteta ‘fear’ – the idea that this season might represent the best chance his iteration of Arsenal will ever have of winning the Premier League title.
As Arteta himself said before the trip to Newcastle: “Next season looks like it is going to be even harder.” It was correctly disallowed after what Graeme Le Saux wryly described as “73 replays”, and on that moment the game turned. Newcastle had four shots in the opening eight minutes, culminating in that penalty shout. They were behind by their next one as Arsenal regrouped.
That was just one of a series of pressure-relieving moments when Arsenal players bought fouls their Newcastle counterparts were all too willing to sell. A combination of them being suckered in and referee Chris Kavanagh ignoring the yellow card burning a hole in his pocket added a simmering tension to this game, one of those in which both sets of fans and players are left furious with the injustice and blatant corruption against their team.
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