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title: "Newcastle supporters react to Jetro Willems’ debut vs Arsenal"
canonical: "https://readnewcastle.com/2019/08/11/newcastle-supporters-react-to-jetro-willems-debut-vs-arsenal/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Oliver Birch"
section: "Feature Writers"
published: "2019-08-11T15:01:43Z"
modified: "2019-08-11T15:01:44Z"
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# Newcastle supporters react to Jetro Willems’ debut vs Arsenal

Jetro Willems certainly had a rather unfortunate debut for Newcastle during their 1-0 defeat to Arsenal on Sunday.

The left-back was introduced to the Newcastle faithful in the second-half, but his mistake allowed Arsenal to break quickly and open the scoring through Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

![Stu Forster/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readnewcastle.com/readnewcastle/sites/20/2019/08/1167371752.jpg)

Those watching the game were quick to react to the Dutchman’s mistake on Twitter, with many Newcastle supporters also venting their frustrations.

> Twitter: @LiamBrusby @NUFC Slow implies that he tried to go to the ball instead of sitting on a lawn chair and waiting for it to come to him. (@chieforator)

> Twitter: i am starting to think jetro willems is just alex bruce in a mask (@popeformosus)

> Twitter: @NUFC Willems waiting for the ball. Everyone gets dragged over and lascelles almost left with 2 men to mark (@ShaunGrey22)

> Twitter: @NUFC Willems waited for the ball and Lascelles left his man![??‍♂️](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/svg/1f926-1f3fc-200d-2642-fe0f.svg) championships already waiting for us (@JosephPinkney23)

> Twitter: Jetro Willems looks like he’s won a competition to play a premier league game (@lfcads2001)

### read newcastle verdict

Willems was certainly caught napping in the build-up to the Aubameyang goal, which proved to be the winner.

The full-back also failed to offer much in terms of attacking output, in what was a rather disappointing day for the Dutchman.