Torreira’s Introduction Lifts Gunners To Another Away Win
Sep 15th, 2018 by 'holic
As forecast Unai Emery went with an unchanged starting eleven from the win at Cardiff. After a scrappy opening phase The Arsenal came under an aerial bombardment and once more Petr Cech conceded a corner when put under pressure with the ball at his feet. The Geordies were looking anything but a team without a victory.
Matteo Guendouzi’s shot-come-cross that drifted wide of the far post in the 18th minute was our first effort of any sort. It acted as a bridge for further advances and Nacho Monreal earned our first corner a minute later but the cross avoided Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
Sokratis showed good pace to rescue his partner after Shkodran Mustafi had stumbled under a long ball, and from the resulting corner Cech made an excellent save to deny Murphy. The industrious Alexandre Lacazette was next to try his luck when he retrieved a poor free-kick in the Newcastle box and wriggled free only to find the side-netting from a tight angle.
The hosts aerial bombardment resumed but two crosses and two corners were just about dealt with by a stretched defence. Lacazette put Aaron Ramsey in but the Welshman’s attempted cross to an unmarked Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang sliced over the bar for a goal-kick.
After Hector Bellerin’s excellent cross was scrambled clear Newcastle had a three versus three break ended by a very good Sokratis tackle. The rather tedious first-half drew to a close without a single attempt on target by either side.
Both teams made half-time changes. The hosts sent on Clark for the injured Lascelles while the visitors introduced Lucas Torreira for Guendouzi. Torreira had an instant impact, finding Aubameyang who was chopped down just outside the box. Granit Xhaka’s left footer found the top corner past a flailing Dubravka.
Newcastle United 0-1 The Arsenal
The swagger returned for The Arsenal as we started to play the ball around with more accuracy and took firm control of the next phases of play. Xhaka turned provider before the hour was up. His cross found Lacazette and although his effort was blocked it fell to Mesut Ozil who passed the ball into the net, through a sea of legs, from 17 yards. A stunning start to the second-half.
Newcastle United 0-2 The Arsenal
The rampant Gunners should have had a third when Lacazette played in Aubameyang but the latter slid his effort wide of the far post. Even when Newcastle threatened a response the Gunners defence looked so much more composed. Cech came a long way to claim a Ritchie free-kick, and even further to set up a breakaway at the other end.
Midway through the half both teams made substitutions. We sent on Henrikh Mkhitaryan for Aubameyang while the Geordies responded with Kennedy for Murphy. Free of his first-half tormentor Bellerin, and Ozil, teed up Torreira for an effort that sailed into the stand behind the goal.
Mkhitaryan had a clearer opportunity when found by Ramsey at the far post, but his side-footer was deflected away for a corner. That Kenedy avoided a card for a sly kick out at Sokratis was remarkable. Mr Probert’s reluctance to give any censures to this point had been noticeable, but that was generous in the extreme. In a last attempt to get back into the game Rafa Benitez sent on Muto for Ritchie, while Unai Emery withdrew Ramsey in favour of Danny Welbeck.
The England forward pulled a Bellerin cross into the path of Lacazette but his shot on the turn was blocked. Cech made a rare flying save and grabbed it at the second attempt to keep his clean sheet. He had another fine save from Joselu’s last-gasp header.
After Danny Welbeck fired the ball into the side-netting back came the Geordies and Clark was able to deny the gunners a clean sheet with a powerful downward far post header that Cech could only help into the roof of the net.
Newcastle United 1-2 The Arsenal
The most pleasing aspect of the performance for Unai Emery would surely have been the response to whatever he and his coaches had said a half-time. The timely introduction of Torreira sparked a faster, more confident performance after the break. Surely the Uruguayan has done enough to convince the new manager that he is worth a prolonged spell in the starting line-up.
He will, however, be concerned at our lack of ability to see out the clean sheet in a match in which we had been so dominant.
107 Responses to “Torreira’s Introduction Lifts Gunners To Another Away Win”
Barely paying attention but 3 points’ll do.
The TTG Escudo came in although I got the scorers wrong . I should have not underestimated the goal machine that is Granit Xhaka . From texts I have received it was very much the game the Maestro described here. When will Emery start Torreira? He transforms the side when he comes on.
We’ve done exactly what a reasonable prophet would have predicted so far so credit to Unai .
Ps- loved the report Holic . I thought Mute had a quiet game ?
(Edit. So did I, TTG! ?)
Watched closely and 3 points will
still do 🙂
Were we dominant Guvnor? We were
awful 1st half and played well for
20 minutes 2nd half was my own
possibly too critical view.
Still 2-1 was the same result as
other teams got against Newcastle
and the 3 points are very welcome
– as is a 2nd away win on the trot.
A happy day 🙂
Spuds lost, the only top team in
North London won
hello and howdy
‘holic and ‘holics
The Arse , eh ?
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i trust everyone is boogalicious
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You are truly the fastest gun in the west with your reports Guvna.
I didn’t see any of the game and have just seen the goal clips on Arseblog. What a lovely pass into the net through traffic from Mesut. Truly Bergkampesque! On the couple of minutes of clips Xhaka made two match winning contributions so I’ll cut the lad some slack. I’m also glad and not in the least surprised to hear that Torriera made a difference again.
A clean sheet would have been rather nice but a win is a win and any away win should be celebrated.
Meanwhile cba, good to see you back. Though I’ve never understood the fascination that Francoise Hardy had for a lot of fellas.
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And that’s one for Wolfie @7. He’s almost certainly in that dance troupe flicking his hips.
howdy bath ?
now you
you – i like
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at times i grow weary of my accent
well
truth be told
all the time
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in my mind yer the owner of a fantabulous stereotypical dandy accent and more fuckin o level s than ye can carry ya bastardin show off but bitterness is not in my armoury
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nope
And licking his lips.
Evening all. Thanks for the kind words. Good to see cba in the bar. ?
I see of our 12 shots only 2 were on target both goals and they were scored by MFs
Where were our expensive strikers?
Ach cba, ah may hae the odd O-level but ah dinna hae thon richt silky turns o’ phrase that mark ye oot frae the common herd, loon.
hang on a wee fuckin minute ‘hol
i don’t recall giving you kind words
ya bollix
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lump me not in with the hoi polloi
the nerve !
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(i know baff – he clever)
but that’s it
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mind you
clearly his balls are broke
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if Francoise Hardy can be so nonchalantly thrown
on the “meh” heap
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? Musical education this evening, cba?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pra1yh1Xesw
Talking of musicians I ran into Mick Jagger at the Oval last week.
I don’t know what that boy is going to do when his looks fade.
yer a cheeky wee thunder T aren’t ye
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“who’s a cheeky wee thunder T”
“who’s a cheeky wee thunder T”
it’s you isn’t it
it’s you
CBA
Or as Bath would say
‘ I’m a saucy wee bairn’.
Nice to see you back. I shall be in your fine country on Thursday , but only for a few hours. Time to neck a Guinness or two though.
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Those Vespas are a lot more shapley and a lot better sounding than whiny old FH, cba. Only IMHO of course.
Watford were somewhat unlucky tonight. They look a real handful this season. Manure SO dependent on De Gea.
any more of yer whoofdedoofnfrurglehoofen baff
and lord knows
ill stand on yer eyebrow
as i beat the sense in de ye
ya life saving doctor bastard
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mind you
this is likely all hearsay
likely yer thick as fuck wi barely the sense ye were born wi
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I have a level maths
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calm down
that’s a-level cynic
ya cheeky wee madam
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and physics
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and chemistry
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biology
and trousers
Yer ain troosers?
Mississippi can do one.
More precisely, they are doing themselves one.
I guess we will find out soon enough whether right wing Stan refuses to buy a Nike kit for Arsenal or any of his other “franchises” but we know that AOC attended an Arsenal Halloween party a few years ago in a Colin Kapaernick costume and AOC was subsequently shipped out. Call it a coincidence, which I imagine it is, but it is amazing how often coincidences turn out to be anything but.
A tad more germanely, Brentford moved up to second in the Championship table with their win today. That puts them at Premier League caliber, more or less, just in time for our upcoming League Cup tie.
Newcastle extra time goal courtesy of: Mkhitaryan losing a midfield header allowing the ball to be headed to the vicinity of Monreal but he doesn’t close down his man at all allowing lots of space for the ctoss to come in to the box where Mustafi and/or Bellerin should havebeen but eere definitely not inside the shirt of the goal scorer. I didn’t see it live but have watched it several times now on the internet. So predictable but at least the predictable equalizer did not follow as it most definitely would have followed last season. 9 points out of the 9 available so you would think I could find something positive to say. ??♂️
Thanks for the report, ‘Holic. I have seen only highlights. We looked on top, after a 50-50 first half, though ‘dominant’ may be stretching a point.
We still don’t seem to play with fluidity until we have scored.
But three points are three points.
Emery has said he is introducing Torriera to the Premier League gradually, so we may have to wait a bit for him to start. But he seemed to make the same positive difference yesterday that he did once he came on at Cardiff.
Hi ‘holics,
Long time reader, very rare poster. Dunno if this is the right forum – but need some advice.
After 20 years of supporting Arsenal from Asia (and seeing the club twice here), finally have the money scraped together for me and my missus to come to London. I am in town for both the Liverpool and Sporting Lisbon home games and am trying to get a couple of tickets for any one. Do not really care, just want to see the club play at home 🙂
Can anyone give me advice on the best way to get tickets – the entire process seems clear as mud to me.
Two interesting things about Ozil: 1) Newcastle was his 200th appearance for Arsenal, which must make him an official Arsenal player; and 2) When asked about Emery he said the first thing that that came into his head (“He knows what he wants.”), which may be an unintentional comment about Wenger.
Wolves dominating Burnley at the moment.
Cech’s save from Joselu in the 87th minute really was outstanding and probably saved us two points.
Hi tailgunner @39.
I suggest you join the club as a red member. You can then either buy tickets when they go on sale to red members or buy off ticket exchange. Tickets will be more scarce for Liverpool than for Sporting. Go onto the website and read up how you buy. Sporting tickets aren’t even for sale yet.
HTH
Two things about Cech yesterday.
He had another ‘moment’ when a rather silly pass from Mustafi put him under pressure and he whacked it out for a corner. The whole league knows his discomfort now.
He made a great save from Joselu but two minutes later with a couple of minutes left was completely exposed by awful central defending off a good but predictable right-wing cross. They really need to defend with more intelligence now. Sokratis bailed out Mustafi yesterday. I hope Mavropanos plays on Thursday
Hmm. Seems Lucas Perez just refused to warm up as a sub for West Ham.
Cheers H! And cheers for the twitter updates about good old Sussex by the sea;
Was a great day out yesterday, it really was. First away game for me since Brighton, back in March. The change in atmosphere was noticeable and welcome. Loved it.
One for CBA xxx
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Nice to hear from you Esso!
Some of my mates who go away report a much better rapport between Arsenal fans than has existed for years.
Looking at the league you have Liverpool, Chelsea and Man Citeh together and a little below them (with Watford and Bournemouth in between) Tottenham , Arsenal and United. I think those two are our rivals for fourth. The title is between the top three and in my view Chelsea won’t keep up this form.
Respect Esso. 600 mile round trip and then the climb to the roof of SJP. Glad you had a great trip. You can’t beat away days.
Nice summary.
It was Mesut’s 200th game for us, and that goal was his 104th in Goals + Assists combination. More than 0.5 G+A per match.
His record against top 6 in PL: 37 games, 6 goals, 9 assists. Only De Bruyne and Silva has better record than him in that time period against top 6. Better than Hazard, Cesc, Coutinho, Alexis…
Nice stuff H
I’ve only seen the motd highlights but echo the comments made about Torriera. Surely he deserves a more regular spot? It’s not the first time that his introduction has made the difference. A good 3 points all the same and very welcome.
The defence still looks decidedly shaky. I’m not sure why we’ve paid £20 million for a goalkeeper and then don’t play him. I like Cech but he’s clearly far from at home with this system. I also think that Bellerin could do with a rest. Mustafi fills me with fear every time he goes anywhere near the ball.
Progress being made and nice to read about some positivity.
Gazidis gone. https://arseblog.news/2018/09/ivan-gazidis-to-leave-arsenal-for-ac-milan/?utm_campaign=autotwitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter
Gazides – a living legend, for the real fans.
In the very near future, when the Unai leads this greatest of clubs has to winning the Big Ears, the Premier Leagues, and every single match – as we were used to back in the old days – everyone will say that it all started with Gazides, who did the seemingly impossible and gave us our Arsenal back, from the clutches of that terrible dictator.
Give the man a statue!
I will let the implications of Gazidis’s departure sink in but suffice it to say I’m not quite as grateful,or positive as Kohlenasaure! In fact although time may indicate what Gazidis actually achieved I’m not sure whether his overall impact was negative or positive. Ultimately he’s just chased the money , which of course he is perfectly entitled to do.
My original reason for writing was to praise Sokratis. I was deeply underwhelmed by his purchase but he played very well at Newcastle and is much quicker than he looks . He looks at first glance to be a much sounder proposition than Mustafi who I thought had a very disappointing game.
All right, which one of you ‘orrible lot is in this photo? My money’s on cba being the Ricky Butcher lookalike at the back.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8c37cb264f474ea938a7c446b8eeecb48af04c7c/0_0_4096_2731/master/4096.jpg?width=1920&quality=85&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=ee0383c8a015e38180f425e9786dcde7
CBA with a mullet? Surely not.
I think he is the second guy along wearing the helmet.?
I say thanks to Ivan for your efforts for the Arsenal. I was never quite sure why he was here or what he did for much of the time, but he did it with class and I would be surprised to hear any of his colleagues say differently. His involvement in the hiring of Mislintat, Sanllehi and Emery will surely be his legacy, and those appear to be good hirings so far. He will end up being one of the key witnesses to the Wenger downfall so his story will be interesting if and when it comesnout. Ivan, Enjoy your pasta and watch your figure but watch out for don Corleone.
Is there any possibility that Gazidis will take any or all of the management team with him?
Ned, I hope not but probably after a suitable period of time, leaving us with UE and Josh to sail the good ship Arsenal.
Cynic,
The second copper looks like a dead ringer for Terry Scott of Terry and June fame.
The gear that the kids are wearing looks depressingly familiar to me, circa 1971.
Sad news on ‘our Jack’:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45555567
However, it somewhat confirms the wisdom of our contract offer.
And it’s official….Ivan has gone to Milan:
https://www.arsenal.com/news/ivan-gazidis-message-fans
Raul and Vinai are promoted to ‘Head of Football’ and ‘Managing Director’ respectively. Just, who is Vinai? He’s apparently been with us since 2010?
The guy in the stars shirt looks like Mick Ford from Scum.
Photo is from the FA Cup third/fourth playoff between us and Wolves in 1973
bath @ 63: Vinai has been looking after the commercial side of things. It’s a good split in my opinion, let Raul the football man drive the player recruiting, coaching staff etc. and Vinai concentrating on increasing the
revenue.
I think the club has been handling the transitions rather professionally and efficiently.
Is Vinai the new Sven, or has Sven forced Ivan out, or both, or neither?
Doctor Faustus, Thanks for 65 which helps explain some things.
@62, Bath
Took longer than I expected for his ankle to go ‘pop’. Those who wished Jack to be retained at Arsenal are still putting their roulette money on red. The ball keeps rolling into black. Meanwhile Torreira isn’t starting enough. Emery out.
Vinai has risen without trace as Bath suggests .
Sven probably now reports to Raul ( get me with all the first names eh!) .
Presumably Josh Kroenke ( in lieu of Stan ) will sit above Vinai and Raul to sort out any issues although their roles should be complementary.
I’ve watched about five minutes of Tottenham tying themselves up in knots trying to pass out from the back with dickheads in goal and at right back. Nice to see somebody else struggle. An active high press puts teams who do this not very well at huge risk
Passable free kick by Messi against PSV, for those who appreciate understatement.
The Champions League ball appears to be adorned with faded blue designs reminiscent of Delft china, which may or may not be of encouragement to the PSV players. Being Dutch, at least one or two of them.
PSV doing surprisingly well at the Camp Nou actually.
@70 Xhaka’s was better ?
Now Dembele’s is special
Sorry bt8 but you jinxed the PSV
KS, i wasn’t trying, honestly.
Two great goals though.
Icardi with an absolute cracker to level against Spuds
let’s all laugh at tottenham…
two goals at the death to lose from a winning position. so much winning, you’d think they were trump fans.
I see signs of a bit of a crumble at Tottenham. Inter looked about as good as AC Milan last year until Icardi hit a worldie and then you could see the confidence evaporate from the Totts. Life is tough when you build a new stadium. Their squad is not deep enough
something about the wheels on their bus falling off…
Crumble at Tottenham? I hope there is fresh cream too.
funny thing, poch says it was tottenham’s best game of the season. sounds like he and moaningho are pulling lines from the same bocca della menzogna…
aaaahhhhhh now cynic /thunder T
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“No fuckin body fills a vest like you , tweacle”
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ahhh now dorsetM ya bollix
which one are you ?
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come on !
TOTES AMASEPUNKBALLS !
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Do you get what you pay for? The Man City squad is the most expensive ever assembled costing 976 million euros or £867 million, according to CIES Football Observatory. Our squad — ranked the ninth most expensive among the big five European leagues — cost a bargain basement 428 million euros (£380 million) in comparison, less expensive than those of Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea among other Premiership teams.
http://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/2018/233/en/
CBA@85,
Thankfully none of them, fella. I’m particularly happy not to be a copper!
Have you any stout on yet? We are starting our first batch of black at Sixpenny Brewery in a week or so.
Love the Ivor picture, definitely trying too hard to look intelligent.
So the new era is completely new what with the exit of Gazidis as well now. I had not realized he has been with the club for ten years. We can look at it in various ways in terms of contribution but i don’t have any dislike towards him. The only question was why now but then he has made his decision and so be it.
Not being in the champions league hurts, the first season did not hit me as much but nowadays I miss it so much, we need to be back in it quickly, please.
Pool winning again is worrying, my dislike towards them increases every moment to united and spurs proportions. I just dislike them for everything that they are and no, it is not because of envy. They are overrated and all it will take is a couple of losses for the wheels to come off, hopefully.
As long as no english team wins the UCL i am fine with it, we have more important things to worry about, defense and europa league afterall.
well now dorset M
there’s them that think the cops
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my opinion on that
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ahhhhhh stout , fella
HOW FUCKIN BRILLIANT
there’s fuck all like fallin down
under yer own homemade steam
just took delivery of a new capper
be rude not to use the fuck out of it
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two brews on this weekend
black treacle stout
locking them away for christmas
few months in the bottle
holy fuck – a transformation
got my usual everyday gargle on the permanent go
so never really ever without a drop
but the wee bit of age to the christmas ones
my god
the deep treacle flavour – just enough – in the background
indeed it’s kept in the background
locked in the shed
herself takes the key – it makes sense
to avoid any late night sampling
by yours truly ?
let us know how yer sixpenny black turns out
indeed sixpenny black is a handsome name
i’m sure mine’s a tuppence ha’penny in comparison
anyhoo
best o luck with it chief
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UP THE ARSENAL
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sweet mother o god
it would blow the fuckin head off ye here
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cattle have a wee head o hair
they do
like an unconvincing syrup
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a dozen
rowed up – staring at us
with their wee combovers
flailing in the big breeze just now
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glad to see you back on form, cba 🙂 i hope you’re doing as well as it appears! a pure pint of guinness on the bar for ya.
scruz
thanks fella
i don’t normally* drink
but in the circumstances i will
sláinte
and the kind sentiment has not gone unnoticed
yer a good soldier
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*knock yer socks off cynic ?
you’re funny, cba. cheers!
Hoffenheim can play a bit can’t they? Reiss Nelson is going to enjoy his year there. Only turned it on to find something to watch while Mrs Countryman is cooking dinner – absolute cracker of a first half.
Reiss Nelson makes his CL debut with 5 minutes to go in a 2-2 thriller at Shaktar Donetsk
Real Madrid are officially less loathsome without Cristiano Ronaldo. Just saying.
Evening cba and the rest of you assorted gents and ruffians! 🙂
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