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Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n Eddie Howe has claimed Arsenal will have the advantage in their pre-season game against Newcastle United on Sunday, with his side looking fatigued.Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
After kicking off pre-season with a behind-closed-doors win over Watford last weekend and a public friendly victory over AC Milan on Wednesday, Arsenal are set to face their first Premier League opponent in Newcastle United on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of that game, Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe<\/a> has suggested the Gunners have the upper hand.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a bit of fatigue in the training today,\u201d Howe told<\/a> his press conference. \u201cI think the players are still adjusting. A definite advantage to Arsenal because they have been here longer. It is a pre-season game and we will be looking to get bits from it.\u201d<\/p>\n Like Arsenal, Newcastle have already played a couple of pre-season fixtures. Howe\u2019s side thrashed Carlisle United 4-0 on July 12th, a week before Arsenal even played their first match, and they subsequently lost 4-0 to a Celtic side containing Auston Trusty<\/a> and Kieran Tierney<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n There\u2019s really no reason why Newcastle would be less prepared for a match, it\u2019s just perhaps a question of whether Arsenal will have adapted better to the Singapore heat.<\/p>\n The Carlisle match was at the Newcastle\u2019s training ground, and the Celtic game was at Celtic Park. Unlike Arsenal, Howe\u2019s side are yet to play a match in Asia this summer.<\/p>\n Newcastle will also be without star striker Alexander Isak<\/a> for the game, with the centre-forward officially unavailable due to a thigh injury<\/a>. It\u2019s an open secret that the player has also asked to leave the club this summer.<\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s game is only a friendly, with the two teams playing for pride but primarily to build fitness. If Howe is right to be so pessimistic about his team, it\u2019s a shame there won\u2019t be three points at stake.<\/p>\n Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe has claimed Arsenal will have the advantage in their pre-season game against Newcastle United on Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[32339,32340,403,99],"class_list":["post-39950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal-vs-newcastle-united","tag-eddie-howe","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39950","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=39950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NEWCASTLE](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newcastle-united-v-arsenal-fc-premier-league-6-1024x682.jpg\" "\\"Newcastle")
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