Raya 8 - Excellent Save from Enciso, and looking far more solid and dependable between the sticks, that’s five clean sheets in a row for him now in all competitions


White 7 - Another decent performance going forward


Saliba 8 - Solid and composed


Gabriel 7 - Injury concern early on, and missed a couple of decent chances but defensively solid


Zinchenko 6.5 - Vacated too much space for Adingra and a bit careless at times but on the whole tidy and played some decent balls


Jorginho 8 - Actually one of his best performances in terms of contribution to our attacking play


Odegaard 8.5 - Superb especially when it came to set piece delivery


Rice 7.5 - Typical of the type of tidy and controlled performance he’s given us this season.


Havertz 8 - Got the goal his play deserved


Saka 7 - Still doesn’t look fully fit, but was much better than against City. Unlucky not to get a brace


Jesus 6.5 - He’s not hiding in games which he used to do a lot, just the accuracy isn’t there at the moment



Subs:


Trossard 8 - Same comment for him as Havertz


Martinelli 7 - Like Saka still not fully fit


Vieira 6


Tomoyasu 6


Nketiah 6

None of the above were on long enough to give them a fair appraisal for their contribution



Well I simply don’t think there’s much to be said here. Brighton even with the injuries they have, are a nightmare to deal with. Mitoma tormented White last season at the Emirates, but White kept Enciso very quiet. They had a bit of momentum in the second half but that was snuffed out with our second goal

This is for me the genuine indicator that we intend to be in this title race to the end, whether it will work out that way who knows but there’s no question that since January we’ve absolutely done all we can to put ourselves in the reckoning.

Todays game was a controlled performance with a cherry on top of the icing on the cake with Trossard dinking in nonchalantly to crown a deserved three points

Not only did we avoid this Bear Trap we kicked the thing out of the park

Well done