Arsenal’s Gabriel celebrates scoring the facet’s second objective of the sport throughout their English Premier League match towards Newcastle United at St. James’ Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on September 28, 2025.
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Arsenal defender Gabriel headed a stoppage-time winner from a nook to safe his facet a 2-1 Premier League victory over Newcastle United at St James’ Park on Sunday and shut the hole on leaders Liverpool to 2 factors with a surprising late present.
Arsenal climbed to second place within the desk with 13 factors from six matches whereas Newcastle are in fifteenth with six factors from the identical variety of video games.
Newcastle took the lead within the thirty fourth minute when Nick Woltemade rose highest to satisfy a cross from a brief nook and head into the web after Arsenal defender Cristhian Mosquera had needlessly given away the set-piece with a miscued back-pass.
The guests had been pissed off as they wasted a number of alternatives, however netted twice late on as Mikel Merino glanced in a header within the 84th minute, earlier than Gabriel discovered the winner within the 96th.
It had been 84 minutes of pure frustration for Arsenal earlier than they ended the sport in jubilation, as they had been denied by wonderful saves from goalkeeper Nick Pope, had been wasteful in entrance of objective and had been denied what appeared a transparent penalty.
The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has been within the highlight once more this weekend, particularly round penalty selections, and there was one other main speaking level with the sport at 0-0.
The guests had been awarded a spot-kick by on-field referee Jarred Gillett when Jacob Murphy’s poor back-pass was latched onto by Viktor Gyokeres, who appeared destined to attain till Pope’s out-stretched leg despatched him tumbling to the ground.
But a VAR evaluation revealed Pope bought the slightest of touches to the ball earlier than the contact and the choice was overturned, a lot to the irritation of Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta.
His anger would have been elevated by his personal facet’s profligacy in entrance of objective, and the best way they allowed Woltemade a free header from a brief nook routine to provide the house facet the lead.
Arsenal stored piling on the strain although as Newcastle sat again defending their lead, and late targets have been a function of the guests’ season to date.
Their equaliser was much like Newcastle’s objective as a brief nook ended with Declan Rice crossing for Merino to web towards his former facet, earlier than Gabriel rose highest in a sea of our bodies to go in Martin Odegaard’s nook six minutes into added time.
Published – September 29, 2025 11:36 am IST
