Gabriel Martinelli makes Arsenal promise after Mikel Arteta's foul-mouthed rant

Gabriel Martinelli wants Arsenal to find the nett arsenic ruthlessly against Newcastle United arsenic they did against Manchester City and has called connected his team-mates

Gabriel Martinelli has warned Newcastle that Arsenal fancy landing different clump of fives and a League Cup miracle.

The Gunners caput for St James’ Park - wherever they person suffered bruising defeats successful 3 of their past 4 visits - convinced they tin overturn a two-goal shortage from their semi-final archetypal leg. Giddy from the five-goal hammering of Manchester City successful Sunday’s grudge lucifer with much needle than a knitting circle, Arsenal abruptly person the scent of Wembley successful their nostrils.

And Martinelli, whose darting runs and breathless shuttles led City a merry creation astatine the Etihad, is present relishing the accidental to settee a people with the Gunners’ Geordie nemesis, warning: “We’re going determination to triumph the crippled and people three, four, five.”

Arsenal were bitter astir Anthony Gordon’s hotly-disputed victor connected Tyneside past season, which proved a damaging effect successful their rubric duel with City, and they were frustrated by different 1-0 decision successful the north-east 3 months ago.

And erstwhile the Gunners missed retired connected a top-four decorativeness aft a limp 2-0 nonaccomplishment astatine St James’ successful May 2022, manager Mikel Arteta coated his players successful a dressing-room meltdown captured by the Amazon Prime documentary All Or Nothing: Arsenal.

“It is f***ing embarrassing to travel present the mode we person done it,” Arteta shouted during his post-match rant. “Don’t worry, I volition look the people. Today it is hard to support you guys. I volition instrumentality each the s*** again.”

Now Arsenal are whistling a antithetic tune, and alternatively of Arteta’s awkward reflection astir the shot utilized successful EFL Cup ties - “It’s tricky, it flies differently” - arsenic an excuse for their decision by Eddie Howe’s broadside astatine the Emirates past month, Martinelli believes they tin upset the odds.

The Brazilian guardant said: “We cognize our qualities. It is not due to the fact that we mislaid 2-0 present successful the past game, we are going to spell determination to triumph the crippled and to people three, four, five. Let’s spot - the crippled is going to beryllium truly hard, for sure. It is going to beryllium different battle. We cognize however hard it is to play there.

“But we person an astonishing squad and we spot ourselves. It is hard to play determination and they are a truly bully side, but we person afloat assurance successful our squad and we spot ourselves.”

Arsenal’s five-star romp against City stretched their unbeaten Premier League tally to 14 games - the longest of Arteta’s five-year reign - and kept the spread to leaders Liverpool to six points. The Gunners inactive person to spell to Anfield, and the mode of their rampage connected Sunday was a connection that the rubric contention is not implicit yet.

Martinelli said: “It was a large crippled for us. We are truly blessed with the show but we inactive person a agelong travel to go, galore games to go, truthful we are going to effort to bash our champion to triumph the league.

“We are truly blessed (with the unbeaten run). We cognize our qualities, the squad that we have. Even though we person immoderate players injured, we cognize the prime we person successful the team.”

All the talk, amid a joyous ambiance connected the Holloway Road, was of teenagers Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri’s goals putting the gloss connected Pep Guardiola ’s astir humbling decision arsenic City manager. Lewis-Skelly mocked City talisman Erling Haaland, who had goaded him with the prickly remark “Who the f*** are you?” astatine the ill-tempered 2-2 gully successful the reverse fixture, by mimicking the Norwegian’s yoga extremity celebration.

Martinelli said: “I don’t cognize [if it was planned], you’ll person to inquire him. But for sure, helium respects Erling a lot. We are truly blessed with him, helium scored an astonishing extremity today. He has been superb precocious and we are blessed for him.

“It was 2 teams that privation to triumph the championship, truthful that’s a fight. We person to triumph duels to triumph these games and that’s wherefore the crippled becomes hard work. We are truly blessed with the result. We did brilliant."

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