Newcastle fans pile on pain for Mikel Arteta with brutal chant during Carabao Cup defeat

Newcastle person reached the last of the Carabao Cup, beating Arsenal 4-0 connected aggregate successful their semi-final clash, and Toon fans were speedy to taunt Gunners brag Mikel Arteta

Newcastle fans taunted Mikel Arteta arsenic they ended Arsenal's hopes of lifting the Carabao Cup this season.

Newcastle bushed Arsenal 4-0 connected aggregate successful the semi-finals, with Eddie Howe's broadside winning some legs 2-0. After their decision successful the archetypal leg, Arteta suggested that the antithetic shot used successful the Carabao Cup had played a part.

"We besides kicked a batch of balls implicit the bar, and it's tricky that these balls alert a batch truthful there's details that we tin bash better," Arteta said. "It's precise antithetic to a Premier League ball, and you person to accommodate to that due to the fact that it flies different, erstwhile you interaction it the grip is precise antithetic arsenic good truthful you accommodate to that."

And Newcastle fans poked amusive astatine his comments during the 2nd leg, chanting: "Mikel Arteta, it indispensable beryllium the ball". Newcastle are present acceptable to look either Liverpool oregon Tottenham successful the last successful March and Howe was delighted with his side's performance.

"It was a large nighttime for us. It was a pugnacious crippled but tactically we were good," helium told Sky Sports. "The volition was to beryllium assertive and sometimes erstwhile you bash that it doesn't ever work. Today it did.

"I thought it helped to solidify our plan. We had to retreat astatine times but we were ever successful the game. The enactment [on the crippled plan] started connected Monday, which is quick. The Champions League past twelvemonth helped america to enactment connected those two-day turnarounds.

"We bash tweak things depending connected the opposition. We felt we needed much tallness successful the team, we wanted solidity astatine the backmost and we had to alteration successful bid to triumph the game. The players followed the acquisition to the letter, they merit the credit.

"Fabian [Schar] had large distances to screen successful his job, tracking Declan Rice whether helium dropped debased oregon went wide oregon went central. At times helium went close crossed the pitch. He is simply a bully jock and is precise susceptible of doing it.

"It is immense [to get backmost to Wembley]. The archetypal quality determination was a spot unexpected, but the nine we privation to beryllium we person to beryllium determination regularly, truthful it's not a surprise. We are determination connected merit, our tally has not been casual this year, we've faced 4 Premier League teams, truthful we person done the hard yards. Hopefully we tin larn from the past acquisition and amended our performance."

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