Newcastle United 2-1 Arsenal: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 15 April 2018
Result
Newcastle United 2-1 Arsenal
Premier League · Sunday 15 April 2018, 12:30 UTC · half-time 1-1
Newcastle United 2-1 Arsenal: match report
Newcastle United defeated Arsenal 2-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 15 April 2018. The half-time score was 1-1.
Alexandre Lacazette opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Newcastle United's goals came from Ayoze Pérez (29') and Matt Ritchie (68'). Arsenal scored through Alexandre Lacazette (14').
Discipline: Newcastle United received 1 yellow card; Arsenal received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Newcastle United were 10th on 38 points from 32 and Arsenal 6th on 54 points from 32. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 10th with 44 points, and Arsenal 6th with 63.
Newcastle United lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Arsenal in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Ayoze Pérez of Newcastle United (8.3), ahead of Granit Xhaka (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Newcastle United wins, 0 draws and 10 for Arsenal.
Going into the match Newcastle United's last five read W-W-W-L-D and Arsenal's W-W-W-L-L.
Key events
- 14'Goal · Alexandre Lacazette
- 29'Goal · Ayoze Pérez
- 68'Goal · Matt Ritchie
- 90+1'Yellow card · Islam Slimani
Head-to-head
Team news
Newcastle United line-up (4-4-1-1)
Martin Dúbravka, DeAndre Yedlin, Jamaal Lascelles, Florian Lejeune, Paul Dummett, Matt Ritchie, Mohamed Diamé, Jonjo Shelvey, Kenedy, Ayoze Pérez, Dwight Gayle
Arsenal line-up (4-3-3)
Petr Čech, Calum Chambers, Shkodran Mustafi, Rob Holding, Nacho Monreal, Mohamed Elneny, Granit Xhaka, Joe Willock, Alex Iwobi, Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang