What an absolute shocker this one turned out to be. I thought, just like everyone else did that at 0 - 4 , there was no way back for Newcastle and Arsenal had it in the bag. They would be closing in on Manchester United at the top of the Premier League having closed the gap to only two points. How wrong we could have been.
This must go down as the comeback of the season so far, if not ever, and today's football was fantastic all round with goals being scored left right and centre. But this really is bad news for Arsenal. They did have a man sent off, and this turned the tide and the game on its head, but conceding four goals against newly promoted Newcastle really doesn't bode well when Barcelona will be their opposition later this month.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said:
"It was a good game with a lot of incidents and turning points, [but] the sending off was detrimental to us and some of the decisions went against us today. We were under pressure and we had problems to finish in the second half."
"It’s unpredictable sometimes, and it became difficult. At 4-1 we panicked a bit. But we were a little bit unlucky too."
"You have to take it on the chin and look at the positives. I didn’t see the sending off very well. But Barton should have been sent off too. We dropped two points, for sure."
