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6 moments that defined Arsenal’s 2021/22 season

By Adam Schultz

Arsenal's Norwegian midfielder Martin Odegaard (L) reacts after the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Arsenal at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, north east England on May 16, 2022. - Newcastle won the match 2-0. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)
Arsenal's Norwegian midfielder Martin Odegaard (L) reacts after the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Arsenal at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, north east England on May 16, 2022. - Newcastle won the match 2-0. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images) /
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6. Newcastle end Champions League hopes

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Arsenal were dire in a 2-0 defeat at St James’ Park. (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images) /

Perhaps Arsenal’s biggest game of the last five or six years. In a match they had to win, nothing other than three points would do as Spurs had defeated Burnley 1-0 the day before.

What followed was Arsenal’s worst performance of the year – topping their capitulation in N17. The Magpies were irresistible. Newcastle smashed them in every area you can think of and, in truth, should have won by more than the eventual 2-0 scoreline.

What the result did was puncture any confidence the young Arsenal side had and meant that Tottenham were in the driving seat heading into the final day of the season. They needed just a point a Carrow Road to secure Champions League football.

Again, like the Tottenham game days before, it was all there for Arsenal to stand up and be counted, but they failed miserably. Some pointed out the youthfulness of the squad, but if we are being honest, the pressure got to the playing group.

After having a seemingly unsurmountable advantage, Arsenal squandered it in just four days and was then made to be content with a Europa League place.

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