Newcastle United 1 - 2 Arsenal: Joe Buck reaction - video Dailymotion

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Joe Buck reacts to Newcastle United's 2-1 defeat against Arsenal at St James' Park. Late goals from Gabriel and Mikel Merino overturned a first-half strike from Nick Woltemade to give Mikel Arteta's side all three points at St James' Park.

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00:00So, Newcastle United 1, Arsenal 2, what can you say about that game?

00:08I mean, anyhow, Miguel Arteta sides every time they come up against each other,

00:11it's always feisty, it's always full-blooded, it's always actually really interesting

00:14and that game was certainly no different.

00:16Newcastle United would leave gutted that they haven't taken all three points,

00:20of course he led till the 85th minute, gutted that they haven't got a point

00:24and, you know, they'll be watching other teams pick up wins,

00:28they'll be watching themselves not pick up wins here at St James' Park.

00:31I know that two of their three games so far here have been against Liverpool and Arsenal,

00:36you know, last season's top two, but they'll be disappointed not to have anything

00:39and really starting to worry about letting their European rivals start to build a little bit of a gap.

00:44Now, the game started with Newcastle United, weather and a bit of a storm,

00:47Arsenal were really good at the beginning of the game, I think.

00:50It was a surprise to see, anyhow, go with what everyone thought was going to be a back five at first,

00:55when they lined up, but then initially they lined up with the back four,

00:58Dan Burnett left-back.

01:00It's fair, I think Eddie Howe probably got that right in the balance of play,

01:03I know that they were under the caution a little bit in the first half,

01:06but I think overall that the balance of the team was okay defensively anyway.

01:11They limited also to not much, Nick Pope made a couple of good saves,

01:15and they took the lead through Nick Valtomada with the header.

01:19It was a bit of against the runner player, but it was a lovely cross by Sandro Tonali

01:22and a really good header from Valtomada.

01:23Gabriel was weak in the challenge and against the runner player, Newcastle 1-0 ahead.

01:27Now, just before that, of course, Arsenal thought they had a penalty and a chance to break the deadlock

01:32when Nick Pope fouled Victor Jokerez.

01:34Now, Jokerez nipped in on a loose back pass from Jacob Murphy,

01:37took a touch and what it looked like was then fouled by Nick Pope,

01:42but replays in the VAR showed that Nick Pope got a tiny touch on the ball.

01:46Jared Gillett was sent to the monitor and after a big delay and a long reflection,

01:50he decided that that wasn't a penalty and it started with a drop ball that caused a lot of debate.

01:55Miguel Arteta was furious about the decision.

01:57He was very animated at the touchline all game, really, but particularly after that call.

02:01I think it's caused division in between hundreds when they talked about it,

02:05but Newcastle United, as I said, made the most of that opportunity to sort of stay level

02:10and then went 1-0 ahead.

02:12And then 40 minutes of the second half at the 85th minute,

02:15they're 1-0 up and you're thinking, right, can they hold on for another win?

02:18You know, Arteta doesn't like it seeing James' Park.

02:21Yes, he had ahead of this game, lost three in a row here,

02:25but Miguel Moreno against his old team flicked on ahead.

02:28It was a lovely little head-out, it was fair.

02:30Came off the base of the post, Nick Pope couldn't react and asked him a level.

02:33That goal was proceeded about ten minutes before,

02:36but with Tino Livermento getting injured,

02:38it looks a really bad injury for Livermento.

02:39He was stretched off.

02:40Of course, he has history with a knee injury

02:42and it looked like a knee injury as well.

02:43Eddie Howe couldn't really see anything too much after the game about that.

02:46So, it'll be interesting whatever happens with that.

02:49Hopefully, Livermento will be fine because he'll be a big player to miss

02:52if he has to miss any length of time,

02:53especially not just now with club football,

02:56but with England action and, of course, in the World Cup,

02:58it's a serious injury.

03:00So, fingers crossed for Livermento, that's not a bad injury.

03:03But as I said, Moreno scored there.

03:05Then, Ugasso thought they had a penalty of their own

03:07when Anthony Lange crossed the ball to hit off Gabriel.

03:11Now, when Gabriel's hand is up like this,

03:13I think everyone on the ground thought it was a penalty.

03:15We, in the press box, certainly didn't.

03:16Even on the replays thought it was a penalty.

03:18The official explanation from the Premier League on that

03:20is that it flicked off the leg of Gabriel onto the arm.

03:23So, you can see why that's not being given.

03:24I think that if that is the reasoning

03:26and if it does flick off the leg, then fair play.

03:28As I said, right now, I haven't seen another replay

03:31and the replays that we've seen have been really inconclusive,

03:33but that was a big flash point.

03:35And then, I also go down the other end and score from a set piece.

03:38Gabriel, of course, had to be him.

03:40Gets in ahead of the defenders and, yeah, they score.

03:43It was a disappointing afternoon for Eddie Howe's side.

03:45They'll be really disappointed if they haven't won.

03:47And it just ramps up the pressure.

03:49They've got to go to Belgium, to Union Saint-Jean was.

03:51In midweek, it's going to be their first home game of the Champions League.

03:54They've got to go and get a point, certainly.

03:56They've got to go and win.

03:57You know, a fellow pot-four team away.

03:58They've got to go and win that game.

03:59And then, they've got Nottingham Forest here next week.

04:01And now, they beat Sunderland.

04:03Nottingham Forest weren't very good in that game.

04:04Sunderland didn't have to be very good to win that game.

04:06But if they don't win that, then there's massive pressure on Eddie Howe.

04:09You know, they're six points from six games.

04:11You can sort of forgive them the first three games

04:13because they had the whole Alexander Ezek situation to deal with.

04:15And a win, a defeat and a draw against Arsenal, Bournemouth and Wolves since then,

04:19it's an OK return.

04:20But they can't afford OK returns if they want to be back in the Champions League come May.

04:24So, they've got to start winning games.

04:25They've got to do that in midweek.

04:27And this would have been a perfect day.

04:29Certainly, they would have wanted not to get beat yet.

04:32But if you're leading at the 85th minute, it's going to rank us.

04:34So, yeah.

04:35Big Aston United.

04:36Leave here.

04:372-1.

04:38Losers.

04:39Without a win again.

04:40And, yeah.

04:41Pressure just beginning to build yet again ahead of those two games

04:44against Union Central was.

04:45And not the Forest.

04:46And not the Forest.

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