Dan Burn addresses Arsenal ways throughout key win over Newcastle
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ewcastle defender Dan Burn insists he has no complaints about Arsenal’s ways throughout their defeat by the hands of the Gunners on Sunday.
The guests emerged from Sunday’s fiercely-contested encounter on Tyneside with a 2-0 victory on a day when something much less would have all however handed the title to leaders Manchester City.
In doing so, they dealt a blow to the Magpies’ Champions League qualification hopes in a sport punctuated by frequent delays in play and ill-tempered confrontations which prevented the house aspect from establishing a rhythm, one thing they themselves had been accused of doing within the reverse fixture on the Emirates Stadium in January.
But, requested about Arsenal’s strategy, Burn stated: “Of course it’s frustrating, but that’s what they said we did at their place. We get a lot of stick for slowing the game down, which I don’t know if we intentionally do all the time.
“They did that, but it surely’s half and parcel of soccer. We can’t do it after which complain when it occurs to us.
“A lot of teams tend to do that now when they feel the energy of the crowd, they try and stifle it a little bit.
“When a workforce like Arsenal is coming right here and doing that, it’s a praise.”
Newcastle set off with high hopes of repeating their 2-0 home win over the Gunners last season and might have been on their way in front of an expectant home crowd had Jacob Murphy’s early shot not come back off a post or had referee Chris Kavanagh not been advised to review his decision to award a penalty for handball against Jakub Kiwior.
In the event, they were undone by Martin Odegaard’s first-half strike and Fabian Schar’s unfortunate own goal.
Burn said: “We knew it wasn’t going to be the identical as final season, the place we performed them off the park. They’re lots higher this yr and so they’ve proven that every one season.
“They’ve been unlucky that City have overtaken them, but they’re a very good team who caused us problems, especially at home. We’re just unfortunate we couldn’t get the win.”
Manchester United’s defeat at West Ham means Newcastle stay two factors clear in third place with 4 video games remaining, though with Liverpool and Brighton making concerted bids to reel them in.
Burn stated: “We’re disappointed, but we’ve got four games to go and it’s still in our hands.”
Additional reporting from PA