Mikel Arteta speaks out on Alexander Isak’s devastating display against Arsenal

Mikel Arteta confessed it was ‘clear’ the level of power Alexander Isak had connected Newcastle’s ascendant Carabao Cup triumph implicit Arsenal.

Protecting a two-goal pb from the archetypal leg, Eddie Howe’s men went for the jugular astatine St James’ Park and enactment the Gunners to the sword ruthlessly.

Isak, who tormented Arsenal successful the reverse fixture and besides scored the victor erstwhile the 2 teams met earlier successful the season, thought he’d added to his catalogue of goals against the Gunners successful the 4th infinitesimal with a devastating finish, lone to spot his effort ruled retired by VAR for a marginal offside offence.

The Sweden international’s adjacent effort rocketed backmost disconnected the station aft helium had outwitted William Saliba but his vexation instantly turned to joyousness erstwhile Jacob Murphy turned location the rebound.

Isak continued to springiness Saliba nightmares earlier the erstwhile Real Sociedad prima was taken disconnected with 3 minutes remaining and afforded a lasting ovation.

The 25-year-old has been coveted by Arsenal successful the past and is seen by galore arsenic the solution to their goalscoring problems.

Whether Arsenal renew their efforts to motion Isak successful the summer, having kept their pulverization adust successful the January window, remains to beryllium seen and Arteta refused to elaborate connected the Newcastle No.14’s latest eye-catching performance.

‘I’m not present to measure absorption players but it’s wide that helium had 2 actions to decorativeness and you cognize what happened,’ helium said.

With Arsenal besides retired of the FA Cup, Arteta has a accidental to instrumentality his squad to Dubai for a week of lukewarm upwind training.

The determination to marque the aforesaid travel past play was wide credited with triggering a tally of signifier that took Arsenal wrong touching region of the rubric and Arteta volition anticipation for a repetition with his broadside inactive successful contention to triumph the 2 biggest prizes available.

‘I wouldn’t similar [to accidental that],’ said Arteta erstwhile asked if the packed docket explained past night’s sub-par display.

‘Especially erstwhile we suffer a game, physically we were bushed and you cognize we played truthful galore games, we played truthful galore games each 3 days, and we knew that this was going to beryllium a truly high-intensity one.

‘I deliberation emotionally arsenic well, it was a precise antithetic crippled that we needed to get determination to judge close until the extremity that we could bash it, and earlier that the crippled got distant from us.’

He added: ‘We request to swallow this one, it’s a pugnacious 1 and we had a batch of expectations.

‘We knew the trouble of the task due to the fact that of the effect that we brought from London, but there’s thing we tin bash close now. What we could bash was connected the transportation a fewer minutes ago.

‘Now we person to look forward, archetypal of each I deliberation this is going to beryllium a achy one, and erstwhile we’re successful Dubai, recharge and spell again due to the fact that we inactive person a batch to play for.’

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