Newcastle United left the capital with a point after an excellent result against Arsenal as the Magpies became the first team to stop the Gunners scoring this season.
With Nick Pope in superb form he provided the last line of defence at the Emirates Stadium to secure a point which keeps United in both the Champions League and the title conversation.
On a night in which Eddie Howe found himself in the unfamiliar position of squaring up to an opposing manager in his technical area, as things got heated with Mikel Arteta, Newcastle may have inflicted something of a psychological blow to their rivals.
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Eddie Howe opts against falling into Arteta trap
Howe was quizzed in his Press conference about Arteta's furious outburst last night. But he stayed calm and did not get drawn into the row over two penalty shouts.
He admitted he barely recalled Dan Burn's pull on Gabriel while he stated he would also be appealing against Jacob Murphy's handball incident but did not believe it was a penalty. He said after the game: “If it was the other way round, I would be shouting for it, but probably not with the belief that it should be given.
“I think the distance is too tight. I don’t think Jacob’s arm is aloft – I think it’s by his side. So, for me, that shouldn’t be a penalty.
“I’ve got no issue at all. Mikel is a top manager and a top coach, I think he’s done an incredible job here. There were no issues between us."
The forgotten clean sheet record
Nick Pope quietly went level with one of the club's longstanding records by recording a sixth clean sheet in a row. The last person to come close to six clean sheets in a row was Steve Harper in the Championship in 2010.
But Harper fell short of that record after a 2-1 defeat at Blackpool 13 years ago. Pope went into the game against Arsenal looking to pull level with Kevin Carr who once kept out Leicester, Barnsley, Rotherham, Oldham, Chelsea and Crystal Palace in 1982.
Pope's now requires a shutout in his next game to beat Carr's sequence.
And it goes on...
The Magpies are now 13 games unbeaten and have set a new club record in a single season of holding on to an unscathed record. Although that sequence is a top-flight record.
However, their longest unbeaten record in the top division stretches across two seasons in 2010/11 and 2011/12 when Alan Pardew led the team to 14 matches without a loss.
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