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'A dagger to the heart': Arsenal humiliated in huge blow to Champions League hopes.

I never fully trusted them to get into the top four, to be honest with you, all the way through. “They are not in the four best sides in the country but they had an advantage on the other teams and they still haven’t made it pay. They didn’t respond to the pressure... Tottenham put them under pressure and they couldn’t cope with the pressure. That was a big advantage for them. I fear for Arsenal and Mikel Arteta next season.

For the second successive match Mikel Arteta's players were knocked out of their stride by a raucous home crowd.

Arteta, a typically twitchy presence on the touchline throughout, threw the kitchen sink at it, with the introduction of Alexandre Lacazette and Nicolas Pepé leaving his team with something resembling a front five. The Arsenal manager decided early in the second half that there was certainly not enough of the required invention with Gabriel Martinelli promptly introduced to replace the near-invisible Emile Smith Rowe, and immediately the Brazilian added some zest to his team. Arsenal repelled the home side’s first-half set-pieces with courage and conviction, which was a good job as there were plenty of them to face. The home fans chanted with insistence and the visitors could have done with some of their certainty. The suspicion was Aaron Ramsdale’s heartily-cheered slip in the opening seconds, when making his inaugural clearance of the evening, pointed the way to forthcoming mishap and Arsenal began nervily. The schedule and the occasion demanded and, if ever there was a night for Arsenal to show they really had changed and were becoming a team of substance, then this was it.

Mikel Arteta has made progress in changing attitudes, but Arsenal players showed a lack of fight at Newcastle with the Champions League on the line.

It was in our hands and today it's not in our hands. But the only players stepping up in this game were wearing black and white shirts. Aside from Saka, who is still only 20, Arsenal lack a player who can be relied upon to measure up when faced with a challenge. The Switzerland international is experienced enough to lead this team on the pitch, but he was nowhere to be seen when Newcastle were winning every challenge, so Xhaka's words ring fairly hollow, unless he is blaming himself too. That's down to Arsenal, though. "They [Newcastle] were running us over from the first minute to the 96th.

Arsenal's 2-0 defeat to Newcastle was a huge blow to their top-four hopes with Jamie Carragher now fearing for Mikel Arteta.

"I think Everton will be OK, I do believe that. "I don't think Klopp will play anyone where there is a risk of injury. I know Manchester City have dropped points and that opens the door for Liverpool slightly. Carragher believes that Leeds are the most likely to face the drop - backing Everton to stay up. "To be that poor in the first half and then produce that in the second half, it is not acceptable. "I think it is going to be tough for him. That is not a criticism, it is just a fact. But Liverpool have got more chance of winning the Champions League. I never fully trusted them to get into the top four, to be honest with you, all the way through. I fear for Arsenal and Mikel Arteta next season. There is nobody in world football who thinks Arsenal will make Champions League football off the back of that. That was a big advantage for them.

A seething Granit Xhaka laid into his Arsenal teammates after their disastrous defeat at Newcastle dealt a huge blow to their top-four hopes.

“It’s a step forward, definitely,” he said. We need people to have the balls to come here and play. “From the first minute to the 90th we didn’t deserve to be on the pitch today,” Xhaka said.

Mikel Arteta said Arsenal must "swallow the poison" after a 2-0 loss at Newcastle left his team facing failure to qualify for the Champions League.

"They were running us over from the first minute to the 96th. "The thing is the pressure. If you can't handle the pressure, it ends like today. "It's very hard to accept it. Normally, I sit here and defend what we have done, but Newcastle were 100 times better than us in every department, from beginning to end. "Tonight, we have to swallow all the poison that we feel and go again tomorrow," Arteta said.

Mikel Arteta said the team got what they deserved on Monday night away to Newcastle. Afterwards, the manager faced the media and fielded questions on the defeat ...

We have done what we can, and with what we were allowed to do, what we could do and the resources we had from the start of the season. The situation is, it was a very different game against Spurs. What happened today, it was about the performance and about how we competed, and we were nowhere near the level we have to be at, to have a chance to play in the Champions League. But again, we were extremely poor in every department that can give you a chance to at least compete in the match and tonight we were nowhere near that. Today, you have to put your head down, swallow all the disappointment that we all feel, hopefully, and tomorrow start again. Newcastle were one hundred times better than us in every department from the beginning to the end and it’s hard to accept to accept, but you have to accept it and that’s the reality of what happened today on that pitch. Every aspect of the game we were second best and Newcastle totally deserved to win the match, probably by a bigger margin as well.

Our first chance fell to Bukayo Saka, after an excellent one two with Martin Odegaard, but his curler was blocked away for a corner. Saka then had a low shot ...

He injected some pace into the game, but it was Newcastle who opened the scoring. We threw caution to the wind after that, but our fate was sealed with Bruno Guimaraes fired home with our defenders desperately retreating. In truth we were second best for most of the night. Copyright 2022 The Arsenal Football Club plc. We can’t finish lower than fifth. The hosts – playing their final home game of the season – were full of intent, snapping into tackles and Joelinton had a goalbound shot blocked by Ben White.

Arsenal's Champions League qualifying hopes suffered a massive blow after a 2-0 loss at Newcastle left them two points behind Tottenham with one match ...

Newcastle deserved to win the match from the beginning because they were much better than us in everything that a full match requires to be on top of that." There's always a chance in football and you have to be there just in case that chance appears." They were much better than us from the beginning to the last minute and we had nothing in the game. "A lot of things happened as well during the night with the substitution that we had to make through injury. They were much better in the duels, in the second balls.... "That I'm extremely disappointed, that Newcastle were 10 times better than us and fully deserved the match," Arteta told his players, according to the manager himself.

NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — With his team's Champions League qualification ambitions in ruins, Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka felt it was time to deliver ...

Finishing the season by winning seven of its last eight home games is a good sign for the future. And not only did we beat Arsenal, we were dominant throughout. “If someone is not ready for this game or too nervous, stay on the bench, stay at home, don’t come here,” Xhaka said, appearing to turn on some of his own teammates. “One thing missing was that we hadn’t beaten a top-six team. Given Tottenham's far superior goal difference, a draw will surely be enough against the league's last-placed team. We had nothing.”

A mounting injury list, threadbare squad and inexperience when it counts have all seemingly cost Arsenal and Mikel Arteta a place in next season's Champions ...

There is also a sense that a youthful team and fledgling manager have lacked the nous and experience to drag themselves over the line. Kulusevski, Bentancur, the irrepressible Luis Diaz and Newcastle’s clutch of recruits, spearheaded by one-time Arsenal target Bruno Guimaraes, have shown the cliché that it impossible to complete good business in the winter to be a fallacy. Should Spurs and Arsenal occupy their current positions in the table by the close of play on Sunday, the pivotal date in each club’s campaign will not have been last Thursday but January 31. The drop-off in competency from Tomiyasu and Tierney to Cedric Soares and Nuno Tavares is enormous. As always, a combination of factors have contributed to this extraordinary collapse. But over the past week, Arsenal have comprehensively out-Tottenham’d Tottenham.

Arsenal's inefficiency in attack has been a problem all season and looks like costing them a Champions League place.

It will not be news to Arteta, who was relatively candid when it was pointed out in December that they had no reliable centre-forward option for the long-term. He was one of Arsenal’s more willing performers at St James’ Park but Callum Wilson showed him how it is done and, while the academy product is understandably admired by the fanbase, they require better. Lacazette briefly earned gushing reviews in December when showing the leadership Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had abdicated, if not the goal return of his friend, but that was a passing fancy and he will depart with little fanfare this summer. When he is out of tune, Arteta is forced to look at his other forwards more in hope than expectation. Nowadays, their concerns are loftier but a lack of potency is the primary issue for Mikel Arteta to address this summer. In peacetime football, only one of Arsenal’s top scorers, Brian Kidd in 1975-76, has managed fewer than 12; on the previous occasion, in 1912-13, Charles Lewis scored four and Arsenal were relegated.

Umukinyi wo hagati wa Arsenal Granit Xhaka aranegura abakinyi bagenziwe inyuma yo gutsindwa na Newcastle 2-0 mu rukino rwa nijoro ku wa mbere, akavuga ati: ...

Twakinye urukino rutari rwo na gato". "Ni ngombwa ko twizera. "Ikibazo ni uko turi mu bihe bigoye. Ni ngombwa ko dutsinda Everton hanyuma tukarindira ko Norwich yotsinda Spurs. Igihe cose hama hari amahirwe matoya mu mupira w'amaguru. Biboneka ko ata kintu dushoboye iyo turi mu bihe bigoye". Twumva ducitse intege ku bantu baje ngaha".

Arsenal and Tottenham are battling it out for the final Champions League spot this season which looks set to go down to the wire.

Arsenal and Spurs have faced off on 60 occasions in the league. Arsenal Points Arsenal Position This season, St. Totteringham's Day, if it occurs, will mean that Arsenal have finished in the top four, and that they've finished above Tottenham for the first time since the 2015-16 season. Finishing above Tottenham has been a formality for much of Arsenal's recent history, even reaching the point that Arsenal supporters have invented a holiday to mark the occasion. Having finished behind Tottenham for half a decade, Arteta's outfit will be eager to finish above their local rivals, and pip them to a seat at the top table of European football.

If last week's Premier League defeat against Tottenham Hotpsur was damaging, over the course of 90 minutes against Newcastle on Monday, Arsenal's Champions ...

City went on to win 2-1, scoring its second goal in stoppage time. "The team that we were able to build is what we were able to build and it's the team that has taken us all the way here," the manager reflected after Monday's defeat. The result means Arsenal will likely feature in the Europa League next season, and Europe's second-tier competition comes with its own unique challenges -- namely traveling to Europe to play on a Thursday before returning for a Premier League game at the weekend. "Every aspect of the game we were second best and Newcastle totally deserved to win the match, probably by a bigger margin as well." "If you're not ready for that, you're nervous, stay on the bench or stay at home, don't come here," he told Sky Sports. "We need people that have balls -- sorry to say that -- to come here and to play, because we knew this game is maybe one of the most important games for us." The 2-0 defeat at St James' Park -- a performance midfielder Granit Xhaka described as a "disaster" -- delivered a huge blow to Arsenal's chances of finishing in the Premier League top four as the Gunners remain two points behind Tottenham with one game left to play.

Football clinic by the Magpies dominating a Big-Six team.

The latter two substitutions had a great chance on a two-on-one run around the 80th minute only for Ramsdale to block Murphy’s shot deflecting it to his left and a corner kick. Smith Rowe touched the ball 10 times in the mid-and-final thirds of the pitch through the first 45 minutes, and Eddie Nketiah’s furthest touch was barely past midfield. And 10 minutes into the second period, the seemingly rested Ben White—who missed the 3-0 trouncing of Arsenal by Tottenham to be fit for yesterday’s game—put the ball inside his own net after Joelinton destroyed a backtracking Elneny and Wilson outpaced the two Arsenal center-backs to get into a magnificent position to strike the ball in. The game started nicely for Newcastle as they seem to be in full control of the pace from the get-go. It made sense for Arsenal considering the ineffectiveness of ESR on the left-wing, barely touching the ball and contributing to Arsenal’s offensive phase. Yesterday marked ASM’s best game in a good while, and he was extremely unplayable through all of his minutes on the pitch.

William Saliba has been impressing on loan at Marseille this season - but how does he compare with Arsenal's other centre-back options?

Ben White – 0 William Saliba – 0 William Saliba – 78.7 William Saliba – 93.1% William Saliba – 2.2 Ben White – 3.2 Ben White – 0.6 William Saliba – 0.5 William Saliba – 1.3 Ben White – 1.3 The 21-year-old has been linked with a permanent move to Marseille and Atletico Madrid are also monitoring his situation. He is our player,” Arteta said after Saliba made his senior France debut in March.

Monday night's gut-wrenching 2-0 defeat at St. James' Park all but confirmed that Arsenal won't be participating in the UEFA Champions League next season ...

Those sums are grim reading for Arsenal technical director Edu, who is keen to bolster Mikel Arteta's squad at the end of the current campaign. Securing a spot in the semi-finals then brings in a further €12.5million (£10.6million). To make matters worse for the Gunners, they would also miss out on considerable sums from TV money and UEFA coefficient cash. Twitter user Swiss Ramble, who is a football business expert, has reported that clubs would earn €15.6million (£13.3million) through prize money just for participating in the 2021/22 Champions League campaign. Mikel Arteta and Co will also lose out on significant money if they fail to finish in the top four. The UEFA coefficient pot for the 2021/22 campaign was worth a whopping €600.6million (£507.5million) whilst a total of €300.3million (£259million) in TV cash was to be shared out among clubs participating in the competition.

The irony in Newcastle midfielder Bruno Guimaraes slamming the Champions League door in Arsenal's face during their defeat at St James' Park on Monday night ...

In reality, only Bukayo Saka, Thomas Partey and Kieran Tierney would interest the traditional big six clubs. Unquestionably, they’ve taken steps in the right direction this season. It’s a tough call. with no Champions League football to offer potential recruits or their own key men, luring the very best players is extremely difficult Newcastle were less hesitant and the rest is history; Guimaraes scoring the second in a 2-0 win at St James’ Park to - barring the unlikely scenario of Tottenham losing to Norwich on Sunday - end Arsenal's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League. - The club were indecisive and slow in trying to sign Bruno Guimaraes in January