{"id":189283,"date":"2025-10-04T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189283\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:17:08","slug":"gunners-thrive-amid-the-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189283\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunners thrive amid the chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was fortunate enough to be at the game of the weekend at St James&#8217; Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/newcastle-united?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Newcastle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Newcastle<\/a>. The raucous atmosphere was at least the equal of Bethpage Black for the Ryder Cup later that evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u200cIt was a case of back to the future watching two sides slug it out brilliantly for more than an hour and a half without any let-up.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u200cControlled, modern football was replaced by chasing, battling and tackling &#8211; but with little of the technical ability lost in the mayhem. There were long throws, lumping it up to big strikers and, of course, the obligatory corner-kick mayhem. All three goals were scored from these set-pieces, and it was breathless brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u200cIf this is the new style for the Premier League, which I suspect it is, then sign me up for another decade.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal probably just deserved their 96th-minute winner after making more clear-cut chances, but it was a close call. The question is regularly asked: can the Gunners stay with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Liverpool;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Liverpool<\/a> and maybe overtake them this time? Well, this game once again showed they are in the best shape since the Mikel Arteta era began.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u200cNot everyone was great. Bukayo Saka was muscled out of it and others had to put the silky soccer skills on the backburner as they played it like a game from the 1980s. However, most showed they could rat when they needed to.<\/p>\n<p>And this is why Arsenal will have Liverpool fans concerned for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.bbc.com\/FootballExtra_Newsletter_Signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up to read more from Pat Nevin in his Football Extra newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sign up to read more from Pat Nevin in his Football Extra newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759573028_188_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was fortunate enough to be at the game of the weekend at St James&#8217; Park, Newcastle. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[498,73310,49,48,1417,561,82,94731],"class_list":{"0":"post-189283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-bukayo-saka","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-st-james-park-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}