🚨Newcastle 2-0 Arsenal: Gunners’ Champions League hopes extinguished at St. James Park

Arsenal’s hopes of that includes within the Champions League subsequent season took a serious dent following a shock 2-0 loss at Newcastle on Monday evening. 

The Gunners misplaced 3-0 within the north London derby final day trip, and watched as their London rivals moved above them with a house win over Burnley over the weekend, and knew they wanted a win to maintain alive hopes of taking part in within the Champions League subsequent season. 

This didn’t occur although as two second-half targets – an personal aim and one from Guimaraes – condemned them to yet one more defeat on the street. 

Newcastle loved a lot of the possession within the opening half, creating quite a lot of clear probabilities. 

Joelinton and Allan Saint-Maximin had been notably vigorous, creating all kinds of issues for the Gunners protection. 

The primary clear likelihood arrived after 18 minutes, and it unsurprisingly fell to the hosts. Sean Longstaff tried his luck from distance, nevertheless it was cleverly intercepted by Aaron Ramsdale. 

The Magpies saved on pushing and will have simply taken the lead within the thirty sixth minute when Allan Saint-Maximin bought some area and unleashed a robust shot from the sting of the field after an excellent solo effort.

The ball went in the direction of the underside left nook, however Ramsdale made a vital save because the Gunners bought a nook kick.

Regardless of their efforts, the hosts couldn’t discover a breakthrough with the match going into the break nonetheless goalless.

The hosts picked the second half from the place they left the primary, pinning the Gunners deep in their very own half for lengthy intervals. 

The breakthrough lastly arrived within the 56th minute when Ben White suffered a great deal of misfortune as he by chance put a cross from the wing into his personal web. 

Newcastle then misplaced an awesome likelihood simply after the hour mark when Callum Wilson bought an opportunity contained in the field, however his tried volley narrowly went over the bar. 

Wilson as soon as once more discovered an opportunity with quarter-hour to go when he collected an excellent cross contained in the field and located himself in a goal-scoring alternative, however the effort was properly blocked by one of many defending gamers. 

Newcastle got here shut to creating it 2-0 when Wilson unleashed an formidable long-range shot having noticed Ramsdale off his line, however the ball by some means brushed the upright. 

Bruno Guimaraes then sealed the win 5 minutes from time after he reacted quickest to get to a rebound and stabbed the ball into the again of the web. 

The loss means Arsenal must beat Everton at house of their final match and hope Tottenham lose or draw away at relegated Norwich Metropolis.