This archive report was first published on 12 August 2019.
Unai Emery's Arsenal side has finally put their painful away-day woes behind them, securing a gritty 1-0 win at Newcastle on Sunday.
The Gunners had struggled to record a clean sheet on the road last season, managing only one in the top flight all season, which played a key role in their failure to finish in the top four.
However, Emery has worked hard to overhaul his team at the start of his second season in charge, with a host of new signings and a more determined mentality fuelling their solid effort at St James' Park on Sunday.
While they were only sporadically effective in attack, Arsenal remained organised enough at the back to keep Newcastle at bay until Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang fired the second-half winner.
Emery praised his team's performance, saying, "I want to win, I want to score and I want to do a clean sheet. Today we won and we did that."
He also expressed his satisfaction with the balance between offense and defense, saying, "The balance offensively and defensively is only taken with the victory. Today in our 90 minutes, we could do that."
Meanwhile, Newcastle manager Steve Bruce was left to rue a key defensive lapse in his first match in charge of the club he supported as a boy.
"That's the big disappointment for us all, to lose it in the way we did, a mistake," Bruce said.
He added, "We defended fantastically well throughout the game - I can't remember my goalkeeper making a save, and that against Arsenal is a big, big positive."
