ST JAMES’ PARK — What a massive moment this might be for Mikel Arteta and an Arsenal team who showcased their title credentials with a win carved out of granite at St James’ Park.
So it feels freighted with significance that Arteta’s team were able to hurdle adversity and what the Spaniard felt was a VAR-infused injustice to haul themselves back into Liverpool’s rearview mirror.
Inevitably it was a set piece that did it, Gabriel Magalhaes rising above Nick Pope and a sea of black and white shirts to spark scenes of jubilation on the Arsenal bench.
"THE GUNNERS HAVE GONE AND DONE IT!" Gabriel with a 96th-minute goal to complete the Arsenal comeback pic.twitter.com/iD7ZQcl1xI
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) September 28, 2025“An unbelievable feeling,” Arteta said afterwards. “That is what football is all about when you get what you deserve right at the end.”
Arsenal’s got theirs, though. Arteta summoned Mikel Merino from the bench and against his former club he headed the Gunners level with six minutes remaining. The injury-time winner puts wind in their sails.
Defensively they look sound enough – Malick Thiaw looks a find – but Pope’s afternoon sums up their campaign so far. He was brilliant for so much of it but at fault for Arsenal’s winner and the decision to send a quick kick up field in the dying stages which pinged back into Newcastle’s penalty area and imposed pressure the Magpies couldn’t resist.
They will point to a second-half penalty shout when Gabriel’s outstretched arm parried Anthony Elanga’s shot but that doesn’t obscure some brutal home truths. They aren’t carrying anywhere near enough threat yet.
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What a game it was though, a snapshot of the Premier League in 2025: two big, physical teams trading blows like prizefighters. There were plenty of technicians on the pitch but even the likes of Tonali and Eberechi Eze can handle themselves in games like this, when the dial is cranked up to 11 and it is exhausting just watching them go at it.
There has always been needle between these two teams and it continued here, extending to handbags after the game when Joelinton and Arsenal’s set-piece coach Nicolas Jover got involved in a shoving match. But this was Arteta’s day.
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