Alan Shearer wastes no time mocking Ian Wright DURING Arsenal defeat - 'Talk to me!'

Newcastle saw disconnected Arsenal's situation connected Wednesday with a 2-0 triumph to scope the last of the Carabao Cup, overmuch to the delight of their erstwhile striker Alan Shearer

Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final 2nd limb betwixt Newcastle and Arsenal pitted the erstwhile clubs of Alan Shearer and Ian Wright up against 1 another, and it was wide who came retired connected top.

Newcastle carried a two-goal pb with them to St James' Park, and they added to their vantage done Jacob Murphy earlier half-time. The winger's extremity came aft good enactment from Alexander Isak, and the striker caused problems for centre-backs Gabriel and William Saliba passim the eventual 2-0 win.

Co-commentator Gary Neville was peculiarly impressed by the Swedish international, but helium wasn't the lone one. Shearer didn't adjacent hold until full-time to tease erstwhile Arsenal prima Wright, suggesting helium already felt the crippled was implicit arsenic a contention by the break.

"Hey @IanWright0 speech to maine astir our lad Isak against your 2 centre backs!!!" Shearer wrote connected societal media. However, a just fewer Gunners fans seemed convinced they would beryllium seeing Newcastle prima Isak successful an Arsenal garment adjacent season.

Isak has 17 Premier League goals this season, astatine a complaint of 1 for each 106 minutes connected the pitch, and his extremity successful the archetypal limb against Arsenal was 1 of 2 successful the Carabao Cup. He needs conscionable six much to lucifer his tally of 25 successful each competitions from past season, a career-best return.

There were plentifulness of calls from fans for Arsenal to interruption the slope for the Swede during the wintertime transportation window, but it wasn't to be. A summertime attack could yet arrive, though each the sound truthful acold has been astir a North London power for RB Leipzig's Benjamin Sesko.

"Enjoy it whilst it lasts, he'll beryllium successful an Arsenal garment adjacent season," 1 instrumentality wrote successful reply to Shearer, portion different said "He is going to look large successful an Arsenal garment adjacent twelvemonth fella". Isak remains a Newcastle subordinate for now, though, and was a cardinal origin successful Eddie Howe's broadside executing their gameplan to perfection.

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"We wanted to get unit connected them [William Saliba and Gabriel] and successful bid to bash that we had to get bodies successful the close areas and property precocious - that is however we decided to bash it," Howe told Sky Sports. "You cognize you are playing against elite players and 1 mistake tin marque things difficult.

"We had to beryllium ourselves, beryllium beforehand foot. If not past it tin rapidly beryllium 1-0 and 2-0 and past you are connected the backmost foot. We had to enactment connected acceptable plays arsenic their acceptable play menace is truthful high. In the reverse fixture determination were immoderate moments wherever we got a spot lucky.

"Again our squad enactment was based connected having height, particularly without Joelinton, we needed Dan Burn, Fabian Schar and Sven Botman. We defended the acceptable plays truly good today."

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