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Image source, Daily Star and Mirror Sport<\/p>\n‘Now you’re Gunner believe us’ – Reaction to St James’ Park comebackpublished at 08:52 BST<\/p>\n
08:52 BST<\/p>\n
Newcastle 1-2 Arsenal<\/p>\n
Image source, Daily Star and Mirror Sport<\/p>\n
Arsenal have closed the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool<\/a> to two points with a snatch and grab win at Newcastle<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n We might only be six games into the season, but the notion that the Reds will run away with the league again has been hindered.<\/p>\n Monday’s newspaper back pages feature the Gunners comeback at St James’ Park and “how it proves their title fight” as a collective team.<\/p>\n But should Arsenal have had a penalty after striker Viktor Gyokeres was brought down by Newcastle goalkeeper Nick Pope?<\/p>\n “Pope came out and made himself big – albeit with a little extension of the foot – and the ball hits him,” said former Premier League goalkeeper David James on the BBC Radio 5 Live Football Daily podcast. “He wasn’t trying to tackle Gyokeres, he was trying to block him and there is a fundamental difference there.<\/p>\n “If Pope goes to tackle him and makes contact then there would be a shout but he has gone for a block.<\/p>\n “It was the perfect decision from the referee.<\/p>\n “He is allowed to try and stop the ball from going in and I don’t think there was any danger in there. If anything Gyokeres made the contact with Pope.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Now you’re Gunner believe us’ – Reaction to St James’ Park comebackpublished at 08:52 BST 08:52 BST Newcastle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-189533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}