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Gunners' loss has Mikel raging as Salah helps Kop leapfrog sad Pep

- JEREMY CROSS

MIKEL ARTETA was left almost speechless after watching Arsenal's title hopes suffer a potentially fatal blow at St James' Park.

Arsenal slumped to a crushing 1-0 defeat thanks to Alexander Isak's first-half header for Newcastle.

Arteta's flops have now gone three league games without a win, and taken just one point from a possible nine.

They are seven points adrift of leaders Liverpool after their battling victory over Brighton thanks to Mo Salah's winner.

And the Gunners could have been even further behind had Pep Guardiola's Manchester City not lost away at Bournemouth.