Match Reaction v Spuds (home)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Us for 75 minutes.

Us for the remainder.

Lamela.

[Marc Overmars]

Deserved win, well played lads!

Did our best to throw it away as usual but held on.

Mourinho.

[Mac76]

i actually couldn't watch the last 2-3 minutes of that it was unbearable

but...

Arsenal

spuds

Maureen

[Gooner23]

Well deserved 3 points, despite the wobbles in last 10 mins. Fuck Maureen and the spuds.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Anthony Lacazette according to Dave SkyBot.

[Globalgunner]

Next time an opposition player gets sent off we should lobby the ref to rescind it. WTF was that last 20 mins?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dawson whining.

[I am invisible]

Tbf, the last 20 could have just been the flight from Greece catching up with us - wouldn’t mind betting their whole “game plan” was to keep it tight and try to outrun us late on...

[IBK]

Tbf, the last 20 could have just been the flight from Greece catching up with us - wouldn’t mind betting their whole “game plan” was to keep it tight and try to outrun us late on...

You know, given that we are basking in a NLD win this morning, I'm going with you on this - particularly their game plan. Sometimes going down to 10 men isn't as much of an issue as it seems on paper, and in a sense that twat going off with 14 minutes to go was not the issue for Spurs that it might have been if it had happened earlier. It motivated them with a sense of grievance - and produced energy that had been lacking up till then in the knowledge that they could sustain the extra effort. As you say - their game plan was probably to attack late anyway, and - again with the timing - it had a psychological effect on us that it would be easier to preserve the game state - and our performance and concentration levels dropped.

Not ideal from us - but as you say we had a trip to Greece on Thursday and lost a day's training, and Spurs played at home. We are fine tuned to look for mistakes given our recent performances, but I'm not sure that our missteps in this game were anything out of the ordinary for most teams.

Did I mention that I fucking hate Harry Kane?

[Ollie the Optimist]

Arteta’ s attitude to team discipline continues to baffle me.

He drops Auba for being a bit late to the squad meet up. Understandable.


However, Willian went to dubai in November against Covid regulations and nothing. Carried on playing.


He seems to pick & choose when to enforce discipline and its a struggle to work out