Oh my… what’s going on with Callum Wilson’s tooth?!!

White v st max whatever is a Red waiting to happen.

As if I wasn’t feeling queasy enough!!!

No one gave White the call

Our defence is tougher than it looks

St.Maximan would have picked it up.

We need Martinelli

The feeling right now is we need to hold on until half time

good save from ramsdale but I was sure that was afoul earlier on Ødegaard. We're not going to get those tonight though

You could see why we were interested in signing Guimaraes, a very good midfielder.

Our midfield 2 need to get a grip. They aren’t providing enough protection.

Tommy down. Here we go

That said physically we are losing ground the battles in midfield.

Oh no, Tomiyasu is off

Tomiyasu let Saint-Maximin get past him way too easily there. He's struggled a lot in this first half, and now it looks like he's coming off injured.

Who is this c#$%^@g referee? Do officials know about home bias??
Put some ear plugs in and referee the *%^@*** game not the occasion.

Cédric.......

We are getting NOTHING tonight.

Plus ca change.

It feels like everything that can go against us is going against us, not just today.

H\ope the players don't feel that way

We might have done if the “fit and proper persons” owners test was worth anything at all.

It is games like this where as a fan you're desperate for one of our lads to go crunching in to them and really match them up physically, but I've seen that game before and we get carded immediately for any kind of physicality. We simply can't win in away games like this. Any physicality by us will have 52,000 fans on a weak refs back, ditto any foul given against Newcastle.

Have we gotten a single free kick this half?

Emile Smith Rowe has been disappointing

Sky showing we've had 6 shots. I'm struggling to recall those?

He seems to be getting knocked off the ball way too easily.

I actually thought the ref wasn't going to give that free kick then!

Ditto Ødegaard

Yes. Several.

It's a problem, because Saka looks like the only one able to hold onto the ball. We need Ødegaard to get more involved in possession, he's got the quality to do it.

Lets hope Arteta gets them a bit more riled up in the dressing room at half time.

Not sure what you can do here. Guimares is running literal rings around our midfield 2. Compare his first touch and distribution to them. He’s literally the player we are crying out for

Martinelli maybe but who do you sub him for and how long do you leave it.

Need Ødegaard to pull something out the bag here

Credit to Tavares who had a very good half. Xhaka and Elneny have been solid. Nketiah is working hard and Saka looks dangerous. We’re still not only in this but capable of snatching a win.

Pretty awful half. The only bonus is it is still 0-0. We need to hope Newcastle can't keep up the high press that we've struggled against. We've got no out-ball even though Nketiah has looked one of our better players when we've actually given him a sniff of a decent ball.

Feels like Martinelli is needed as you'd think he could get the better of kraft at full back and allow us to give them something different to think about with some added pace up top. The game is passing Emile Smith Rowe and Ødegaard by right now.

Wasn't liking the protocol to keep the flag down on obvious offsides as Newcastle pumped lots of balls over the top and forced the delicate hamstrings of White and Gabriel to chase it unnecessarily

That pass out from Ramsdale when the Newcastle got a touch on it.....it was a bit of a suicide pass from Ramsdale as well. in to an onrushing player, in his own box with a newcastle player breathing down his neck and no simple one touch pass for the Arsenal player.

Well we've somehow got to do something in the second half or it's over for fourth, since there's not a cat in hell's chance that Tottenham aren't beating Norwich.

My issue when team press us so much is we are too often looking for the quick passes to play around it, we're being rushed in to making mistakes, often that pass won't be on or you're just passing the next guy in to more trouble than you are in. What you need to be doing is having the sense to protect the ball and take the foul from the over exuberant press, or be brave enough to dribble past it. A player running full speed at you is actually easy to dribble past as he finds it so difficult to change direction quickly. This is where we need a Cazorla type deep in midfield

I agree with that completely. Make no mistake, today was always likely to be a ‘must win’ match after the defeat at Tottenham.

Briefly saw the White booking. 8th minute. Wide on left. Not in any way a goal scoring opportunity, not indeed the beginning of a breakaway. Not convinced it was a foul anyway but if it was, it was the first in the game. YELLOW???

Seriously?

That’s a booking for Eddie !

That’s a coming together.

That's a possible red