The afterglow of a North London Derby day win
is unmatched in football.
That was the Arteta Cup Final.
If he’d won 3 of the 4 games after the break and lost to Spurs, we’d still be in crisis. The fact he’s beaten our biggest rivals means he’ll get away with a draw at Brighton.
It’s quite simple to grasp what the fans wanted to know:
- Can this new team play good football?
- Can this new team hack the pressure of a big game?
- Can this new team comprehend what the NLD means to the fans?
Seems like the answer to all three questions is unequivocally YES YES YES.
The first 45 minutes against Spurs was the best of the Arteta reign. We’ve had big wins, we’ve won cup finals, we’ve played well. But not to that degree.
We absolutely spanked Spurs. Johnny said to me pre-podcast that the goal we conceded was disappointing because it flatters Spurs.
Back to the positives. The football was sublime. I can’t remember every moment, but some things I loved.
Ben White slide tackling Harry Kane to perfection in the opening 10 minutes.
Ben White beating Kane in the air to start the move for the first goal. Good going for a midget that was going to get bullied by big strikers this season.
The off the ball movement on the counter for the first goal.
Saka and ESR creating an Hale-End production for the first goal to prove out their credentials as NOW players
Auba showing up. Working like a machine. Making the runs. Scoring a goal from a really, really tough angle
HARRY KANE DROPPING THE ASSIST FOR SAKA
That first half was extremely effective. Nuno and his boys had no answer.
The second half was different. I think we all wanted a jugular attack, but it wasn’t forthcoming and really… the pragmatic management of the second half was correct. Arteta says that you can only feel safe with a 3 goal lead, so why fuck it against a team you cannot lose to?
We did concede a goal which was a shame, but that’s Spurs, total shite, but loaded with elite attacking talent that can kill you. There were still moments of magic and lovely bits that showed we’re moving forward.
Granit Xhaka, a player we worried about, proved out the point that he is always elite after a dumb sending off. He’s included in starting 11s because everyone at the club knows he can be relied upon. There’s trust there. Most of the time, he’ll pass well, be in the right spots, and he’ll lead like a warrior. His performance was superb all game, he started the moves for both goals, dealing with Ramsdales hospital pass in one move. Let’s hope he’s not injured.
The most ‘WHAT IS THIS’ signing of the summer was Aaron Ramsdale. Sure, he can do it on a cold afternoon in Burnley, but could he do it against Spurs in a low margins game? Yes. Yes he could. He was great with balls into the box, his passing decisions were mostly great, and he showed up with the BIG saves. Harry Kane let rip from distance and he palmed the low shot away. Then he found time to give us save of the season, tipping over a Moura deflected shot he had ZERO right to get to. Face it folks, Ramsdale is a fucking great signing and we all have to back the fuck away.
Tactical fouls is now an Arsenal thing. Auba, pleasant as apple pie, did it all game. Xhaka dropped a load and didn’t get a yellow. Sambi came on and took a yellow for the greater good. Small things that show we’re building up a bit of an edge.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE THIERRY DRIP IN THE STANDS?
I will say this quietly. I really hope Daniel Ek and Thierry weren’t there to make a hopeful statement about our manager and ownership because they thought we’d lose. That is very negative, but damn, Daniel Ek best be in Thierry’s box for the Palace game.
Anyway… on the Thierry subject. Did all three Arsenal players copy the famous Thierry knee slide?
Yes they did. How. Fucking. Awesome. The nod the past is unreal. That’s how you get the fans on side. I love it. So sharp.
We won the game 3-1 in the end.
That result felt special (Big Tone showing the way). A pivotal moment in the project. A proof point that the process is moving to the next stage.
Now we can look back on the first 3 games and give them honest context. Not having 9 players for the Brentford game was a huge issue. Most don’t realise the difference between injuries and covid. When the Arsenal squad got covid on the Friday, the plan for the week blew up. They didn’t know who would be available on the Saturday. I’m pretty sure the players weren’t even allowed to get on the coach together… so the starting 11 ran right up to the wire.
Chelsea without key players is always going to be tough. City 2 defeats on the bounce with last seasons squad and 10 men was never going to happen.
Now we can see the future and we can answer some of the borinng ‘negs’ that have hung in the air.
‘PLAY WAS CLUNKY AGAINST NORWICH BECAUSE ARTETA IS A BAD COACH’
Well, turns out the occams razor here was that a new squad of players that doesn’t know each other might struggle to string peak Barca football with one weeks notice. Training a cognitive style of football takes time. Players don’t have an intuition for each other. It’s a learning process. Of course Norwich was going to be rough.
‘FANS SAYING THE PASSING WAS 5% OFF DON’T GET THAT THIS IS WHAT ARTETABALL IS’
Post-Burnely, I took pelters for saying the passing was off, but when it clicked, it’d be better. Well, Arsenal played a better team, on cut grass, and a watered pitch and guess what… the football was MUCH better.
‘THE SUMMER SIGNINGS DIDN’T MOVE THE NEEDLE’
Well, what a moment. If you said that, I hope you’ll be sharing out the sweet-tasting humble pie today. Every summer signing moved the needle.
Ben White is a huge improvement on David Luiz. He’s fast, aggressive, very good in the air, and his passing is getting better and better. Christian Romero, cost the same, had far more Twitter love… benched.
Martin Odegaard is not average or boring. He’s a leader, his passing is superb, he presses harder than anyone, and he connects with the fans. What a dream player. I love him.
AARON RAMSDALE is a star. So many people said that we didn’t need to invest in a keeper. Who agrees with that now? No one. Aaron is the shock package of the window. He’s already a difference maker. Let’s hope he keeps progressing. No one is saying he’s a poor man’s Emi today.
Tomiyasu. Remember Sky saying he was offered to all the clubs in the league? How is he feeling about that now? Emerson Royal, benched. Tomiyasu taking more touches than anyone, dominating in the air, not letting anyone go past him. He’s just good. That’s it. A top, top player.
… but let’s talk about the big difference-maker.
The fans.
Arsenal botched the summer comms.
Now they’ve addressed it.
Arteta is pumping players and bringing fans into the process. Per told it straight, this is a transition project, but it will be good. The manager thinks these players will be powerful. The honesty with the fans has changed the dynamic in the stadium. Look at how everyone behaved after the game, the fans stayed, the players did laps, Arteta bowed down everyone, and Saka jumped the fence to give his shirt to a little girl holding a sign with his name on it. That’s how you get us on side. Think about this: Arsenal only had 3 players over the age of 24 in the starting 11, the rest were youngsters. These players are going to get much, much better. There’s not doubt. The home fans feel this, they know something special is in the air and that was before the Spurs game.
Young players need encouragement and so do older players. If we want them to get better, The Emirates needs to be electric. It has been every game this season. That is special.
Let’s also talk about the football. Mike McDonald had to tell the fans what ArtetaBall was all about, it’s the biggest story on this site. Theory alone is not enough, you need wins and good performances to keep people in belief mode. The football against Spurs was EXACTLY what we needed to see. We were dangerous in the low block. We created from structured counters. We had accurate long balls in abundance (Auba received one from Partey so good, he didn’t know what to do). Our players gave our attackers so much service they’d not had before. That was the first proper showing of where the football is going. So hold that in the mind as the season goes on.
Arteta has had a rough start to the year, but what I like is the pivot. He’s behaving better. He’s pumping the younger players. He’s commanding the press conferences with calmness. He’s bringing us along for the ride. That is what we need moving forward.
Also, because I am plugging our podcast. Matt made an elite point. Auba is the only player at Arsenal you want swagging it up. If he’s not showing off in his fancy cars, there’s an issue. He’s a showman. He needs to be showing. Check out this video.
Alguns torcedores do Arsenal conseguiram parar o carro do Aubameyang agora na saída do estádio. 🤦🏽♂️😬 pic.twitter.com/gdFJWHfLKj
— Joao Castelo-Branco (@j_castelobranco) September 26, 2021
LOVE THIS. Auba needs fans as much as the young players. This is what we’ve lacked over the last year. More please.
We have it all to do again next week, but beating Spurs is what we demand as fans. Arteta and the players understood the moment, the fans gave it their all, the result was glorious.
As for the project and the bumpy nature. That’s a learning on my part. Check out this graph Danish Gooner tweeted me.
Anyway. Enjoy the feeling today. Listen or watch our podcast. Let’s see what Paddy V has for Brighton.
Btw, the podcast is our best yet. Matt and Johnny were absolutely electric on it. If you haven’t given us a chance, download or watch it today.
P.S. Who thinks the Amazon Doco just got a bit more interesting?
Yesterday’s win was truly special.
Convincing and inspired win over the spuds.
Probably the best performance by Arsenal since the 4-2 win over them during Emery’s reign.
Each goal was special.
ESR and Ramsdale are looking like special special talents.
Tomiyasu and Ødegaard are looking like really nice signings too.
I hope they continue to play this way.
I really hope we get to beat Brighton on their home turf next week.
We need that going into the international break.
Tr4phy 🙂
Tr4phy
Fuck off DM
Pedro – my first thought at 3-0 up was “at least we finally have something good for Amazon” lol
Bankz – missed you too bro
Loved that 1st half!
DM and Bankz fighting for the tr4phy.
The good old days are back, baby.
I missed you too DM.
It’s been too long.
Lol.
Jamie the old days are back
The 8 game run of winnable league fixtures (on paper at least) after the City game is off to a great start. 3 out of 3 so far. Need to keep the core healthy of our starting XI healthy.
NORTH LONDON IS RED.
That is all.
Over the last ten games ARSENAL has been the second best team in the league. But it seems all it takes is one bad result for there to be a crisis. Strange that
Why settle for a draw? I want a win at Brighton.
Consistency is the name of the game now. The teams who are most consistent will win European places.
No more false dawns please!
Just need Boomslang out of retirement to complete the set.
And Rhys Jagger, am I right?
Can’t complain about anything yesterday. Wish xhaka a speedy recovery. Absolutely still buzzing. North London is red as usual
Tomi has had the most touches the last three games I think? What this proves imo is that the players trust him with the ball alot as he seem to be extremely efficient with it in tight spaces with both feet even
Great performance from the lads, we should be really happy with what we saw yesterday and avoid needless negativity today!
Tomiyasu was very impressive yesterday.
Pedro laying down truth bombs today. Can’t deny I’m loving life this morning and truly on the Ramsdale express. The save and the passionate screaming after, high fives etc. What a player, just what we need.
Meanwhile in other news I explained to my lad why Spurs have a cock as their club badge and what that means. Had to be said as a couple of kids on the school run still had the audacity to show up with Spurs bags for school. Quality parenting right there.
Great day as always beating spurs, but no something special isn’t brewing.
Signs of positivity though if xhaka and arteta are both gone by January
Bloody hell Bigper, can you not just enjoy the moment?
If we play the kind of football we had in the firsts half on a consistent basis, we surely will be competing for top 3 come end of season. Anyone noted Ramsdale talking about the ‘ever reliable Tomiyasu’ being there to clear after his save? Tommy looks so assured!
Tomiyasu is proving to be a superb signing.
Swap out Xhaka for Bissouma in Jan, and I will be happy with the team.
“Tomiyasu is proving to be a superb signing.”
How is he only 21?
“How is he only 21?”
I think he’s almost 23?
Still young, obviously, but not quite 21.
Roll it in glitter all you like…….
Arteta is still a turd that needs flushing he can float a little longer but the truth will
Out in the end…….
His cup final win yesterday….opps sorry NLD win they’re also turds was great can he sustain this… let’s see shall we
North London is RED……,!!!!
I won’t be moaning after a performance like yesterday’s. The team earned that.
I’m still buzzing. This is what I’ve missed this whole time. Big wins with electric football. More of the same and you’ll get less moaning of me. I hope we solidify this win with more wins in our next games. It feels good to be a gooner. I’ve missed this so bad!
Fair play to aubamayang and hopefully that will be the catalyst for him to spark him into form.
Not sure he would have been thrilled with the guy literally sat on his bonnet. Think the car might be taking a trip to the body shop today.
Pedro One of your best ever post match write-ups mate!! Absolutely bang on the money, inspiring even The perspective that is so often missing was there in spaces. Yesterday’s podcast was so good too. As discussed yesterday, the atmosphere in the stadium has been a real contrast to previous seasons, so supportive of the players; That is important with young players & is perhaps the result of a combination of factors; being allowed back into the ground & buying into this young group of players The least you expect as a fan is to see players sweating fir the shirt… Read more »
*there in spades
Ramsdale was excellent, but 2 points – he nearly cost us a goal just before our 2nd with his foolish pass to Xhaka, who he should’ve known can’t run. Could’ve been a foul easily with someone else in the VAR room. Also his great save really wasn’t that great if you look at the replay. It looked amazing due to it being a fingertip save, but it was only fingertips due to his footwork being less than great. Even in a couple of previous games his dithering on the ball could have easily cost us a goal. Seems like an… Read more »
Sotogunner
“Had to be said as a couple of kids on the school run still had the audacity to show up with Spurs bags for school. Quality parenting right there”
That sort of child cruelty needs to be stamped out. Those kids are going to have bald heads and walking aids before they ever have a trophy to celebrate – if ever.
Wonderful performance. Great result.
Now lets give the team the time they need to develop fully.
Nice one Raptora, days like this need just positive vibes
YES, YES, YES
My ONLY critique of the game yesterday was why weren’t changes made earlier? You had three players down with cramp and yet no changes were made.
Apart from that, a perfect game. I only wish we had put more past them 🙁
I love Graeme Souness, he’s become a crusty old codger. And I’m with him entirely that controlling midfield is a must. But nowadays you cannot get away with the stuff he got away with thirty odd years ago. The rules have changed. Tackling from behind for a start.
Right on, rap.
Let’s smash Brighton on the weekend to keep the good feels going.
I was so nervous walking to the ground yesterday. If i’m honest I thought a draw would be a good result and keep some positive momentum because i’m so sick of the mood hooverers on here. I was in dreamland at half time and what started as a stress fest became one of my best match days as a supporter (i’m 50 and seen a fair few). I like Arteta, I want him to succeed and I like this team so much and they worked incredibly hard yesterday. Green shoots?….. i fucking think so!
Has Arteta finally settled on a side he is happy with? It is clear that for our season to succeed we need to keep yesterday’s first XI fit as much as possible. If we do that we should make top 6, and even top 4. Therefore for the Brighton game I would keep Ramsdale and the defence, swap in Saka for Pepe and Martinelli and Sambi for Xhaka for the first 60 minutes and see if they can get the business done. If we’re still searching for the win after that point bring in Saka and ESR as impact subs…… Read more »
*swap in Pepe for Saka and Martinelli for ESR… obviously 😉
Leedsgunner I would not make any changes for the Brighton game unless maybe swap out Xhaka for Sambi. ESR and Saka will be playing 1 game a week for most of the season and fatigue should not be an issue there.
I would rather rest them in home games tbh if they need the rest rather in a tricky away game fixture.
raptora “I’m still buzzing. This is what I’ve missed this whole time. Big wins with electric football”. Well said mate. It was discussed in some length pre-season about the need for players to come into the squad who can move the ball quicker from back to front and in transition, which we all agreed with. Our tempo was slow and play too side to side. which made the football bland. That caused frustration. Yesterday the speed through transition ripped Spuds apart. They couldn’t live with us. We were winning the ball back quickly all over the pitch and progressing the… Read more »
Agree with every point Pedro. If Auba would ever get a statue I’d love it to be him been eye to eye with Henry in the same celebration. That would be epic. We saw the arsenal machine starting to click yesterday. Arteta is building a machine and all machines need time to start functioning at full pace. We are not man city or Liverpool yet but we are reaching towards that. Yesterday for me also clears up the ozil issue with arteta. Keeping him out of the squad was amatuer decision making but ozil simply is not built for this… Read more »
Jim Lahey I agree with you that Arteta should have made earlier substitutions than he did and might have prevented the goal we conceded. It is a lesson that Arteta must learn, because there have been other occasions this season when we should have freshened up team earlier than we did. On a secondary note we are now playing a relatively young side and we know that such teams do tend to be up and down in performance. So there are going to be games this season when they will disappoint or run out of puff. However, overall I am… Read more »
TT “I would not make any changes for the Brighton game unless maybe swap out Xhaka for Sambi. ESR and Saka will be playing 1 game a week for most of the season and fatigue should not be an issue there” Yep, momentum is very important. Leeds makes a fair point but these players have hardly played together so they have to get rhythm and build understanding with each other – and that means games. Without European matches, players have maximum recovery time and a week to work on team play. We have a real opportunity to build on this… Read more »
I thought we laboured and was lucky to win. Am I on my own here?
Don’t ever change, Guns.
Guns
You are a misanthropic genius of Einsteinian proportions 😄
So great to dance past my Spurs supporting colleagues at work this morning, asking them what colour North London is. As they say, silence is golden!!
I’m not sure what I expected yesterday…..hoping that we will drop a good performance, but three goals in thirty minutes, epic, amazing, a joy to watch. Everybody pulled in the same direction, players, managing staff and fans in the stadium. We deserved this after all the misery of our poor start. I think we can all be clear now, this can only get better if we can keep all our key players fit. I does feel like a turning point, but we do need to keep focus and intensity in each game we play. Brighton away next, can we keep… Read more »
I’m actually joking. The three goal salvo was actually some of the best football I’ve seen in a decade.
We looked hungry.
However, once again we are not going to make Europe based on our first three games. Inconsistent play is the worst.
We did well. 7/10 performance.
I read that we got ESR from the Chelsea academy. Maybe our scouts should spend more time on other team’s academy players and see whether we could move some to come over.
Nelson
We did not get Smith-Rowe from Chelsea Academy.
He was playing there as an 8 year old and was rejected by them. You could apply the same
view about Kane whilst he was at Arsenal.
Also, Xhaka hopefully has destroyed his knee. Silver linings everywhere.
Thats an awful comment Guns,
Good morning ladies
Hope you re dealing with you hangovers well
Now Aubameyang has to sanitize that baby
Must have been touched by at least 1000 hands in the age of COVID
Don’t make Auba sick again.
TT
Pray tell, why? I don’t know him. I don’t rate him and I think he stinks the team up.
Him being out means a better footballer comes in.
The multi millionaire will be okay.
If you cant see how wrong it is wo whish a career ending injury on any player then no amount of me explaining it to you will help.
TT
You’re Loling me by taking Guns of Hackney literally
He’s the wind up merchant around here.
Best to leave him be
What does Kane have against Gabriel? Anybody notice late in the 2nd half when Kane had a go at him? It’s like he was carrying on from where he left off last season:
https://twitter.com/CostasTsioras/status/1371172654934294530?fbclid=IwAR0FB4VR6cZ0TmJyugYIX1m-LaiOED-ib9hPeMCvZBcnYLzk21fyjgThXDs
What an animal.
Hoping for the best, but fearing the worst for Xhaka.
Jumping the gun here, but do we get more ACLs than other teams? Certainly seems that way
“but do we get more ACLs than other teams?”
not really, when was the last one we had?
I don’t like Xhaka as a player, and I think we are better without him in the starting line up, but to label a potential long term injury “a silver lining” is a really distasteful… and unnecessary in my opinion.
Reminds me of the kind of things that Stokes fans said to us when Ramsey broke his leg… horrible.
Xhaka is not my cup of tea, but I wish him the best.
Moura landed on Xhaka’s right leg. As far as I know, Xhaka doesn’t use his right leg to play football anyway.
Jim, in recent years,, Callum Chambers, with Rob Holding and Bellerin around that time as well , prob going back a couple years admittedly, don’t pay so much attention to other teams, but seems to me at least this team certainly gets its share compared to others
The worse injuries are the ones you least expect. Hope he pulls through ok.
“Callum Chambers, with Rob Holding and Bellerin around that time as well”
To be honest, I totally forgot about those. Its funny how quickly I can forget an injured player if they’re not in the starting 11
Was Mathieu Debuchy another?
That game was so good I might just have to watch it again tonight I sadly fell asleep in the second half because I’ve been working 60 hour weeks lately and had only a couple of hours sleep in two of the last 5 days. A proper shitter But that first half was pure wow. The football was fantastic. The energy was there, the effort was there. The freedom (for once) was there. It was a prime wenger performance that first half. The auba goal was the most satisfying goal I’ve seen us score in the best part of a… Read more »
I wonder how Harry Kane, the Arsenal reject, is feeling today.😂😂😂
Think Debuchy may well have been .
Fear KT could be one waiting to happen as well
A bag of rocks doesn’t have feelings Leeds
Pedro,
Great post, one of your best. However, the graph is completely misleading. Human improvement does not increase in a smooth upward curve at all. What happens is, there is a short period of improvement, followed by a long plateau, another short period of improvement, followed by a long plateau, and repeat.
The absolute revelation to me is Tomiyasu just going around physically bossing and bullying everyone, winning every header and every 1v1, and there being this aura that he’s got everyone’s number on his side of the pitch. It’s been a LONG time since we’ve had that type of beast on our team.
Had literally never heard of him a few weeks ago!
Ah, you gotta love that post-coital feeling after an NLD win. Lasts for at least a week.
The next 5 games look absolutely winnable. If Arteta wants to win back the fans more permanently, that would go a long way. I don’t see why we should be settling for draws. Our players are more than good enough to beat these teams.
On a cruise and viewing limited thanks to the one sports channel showing the f***ing Ryder Cup But have seen whole match replay now – bloody hell I was confident we had bought well but they looked better than I dared hoped Add the previous Summer signings Partey and Gabriel and we had almost a brand new team out there – so exciting and I agree -Pedro – this team will get better As Arteta seems to have now escaped the sack 3x let’s see if he can finally make a coach Still far from convinced about Xhaka and he… Read more »
Do I got to post on here yet? Fingers crossed…
Still with a big smile after yesterday’s game.
I am more than ready to eat my humble pie. I just want to see everyone improve, including the manager. And I got bucket loads of that yesterday.
So excited that I have got myself a ticket to watch the Villa game on 22/10. Really looking forward to going back to the Emirates!!! (Well I went there to watch the Wimbledon AFC game, so I got a taster of the atmosphere to look forward to 😀)
Don’t want to get carried away but this has shades of when conte won the league at Chelsea 😉
Best day footballistically for such a long time! I’m still not convinced by Arteta, but you know what – after that performance, following on from the previous league wins, I think he’s won more time and he deserves it too. Let’s see where we are by Christmas. Yeah it could all be a false dawn, but maybe it’s finally starting to come together.
Also to anyone who thinks my bed wetting about all the shit I see wrong with arsenal is agenda driven, take note of how positive I am about that match For me I’ll always be fair SHOW ME THE MONEY on the pitch and I’ll give you all the credit you deserve. I don’t ask for perfect and don’t ask for flawless. Just give the fans a genuine reason to believe and that’s enough. In 2010 we were winning shit but I was balls in on the belief that ‘this year could be our year’ and at the very least… Read more »
Great performance overall and Arteta got the team selection absolutely right. Auba up the middle and having the three behind him (ESR, Saka and Ode), provided a lot of space and opened up play. By far this was Auba’s best performance in quite some time and asks why Arteta keeps tinkering with what should work? Still not convinced that Arteta is the right person to take this team to the next level, but he should by now really be well aware of his best 11? Really thought the entire team came to play and that is all anyone could ever… Read more »
China,
Same.
I was excited when he was appointed and supported him for longer than a lot of people. He lost my support when the team started playing consistently shit football after that brief post-Christmas run. And he’ll win my support back if the team starts playing consistently good football. Yesterday was a perfect start, let’s see what the next five games bring.
“I wonder how Harry Kane, the Arsenal reject, is feeling today”
Who gives a….Harry Kane and Daniel Levy deserve each other!
Loved yesterday at half time showing Wrighty going bonkies like a little kid in studio cheering Arsenal’s goals. Glen Hoddle looked solemn as he knows what he knows every year, North London bleeds Red!
LOve Wrighty!!!
For the first time in many years we have a solid pair of full backs that understand their job is to defend first by being aggressive in one on one situations.
The first three league games were awful, great performance yesterday a young team ESR looks a special talent he’s starting to drive into the box more.
Elmo Tomi is playing like Sagna just tying up that right hand side so you can forget about it and focus elsewhere
Ian wright is a legend in the truest sense of the word
There are ex players who love the club and there are ex players who bleed for the club. He is firmly in the latter camp
Him and Adams China1. Loved that smile on his face in the studio with King and Souness 😀
Best game of football of Arteta’s reign. Everyone played well with Ode, Partey, ESR, Saka
notable standouts.
Auba looks to have his timing back so hopefully more goals to come from him.
Credit to Arteta as well for finally cracking the seeming impossible task of playing free flowing, attacking football 20 months in …………even if only for one half.
Here’s hoping this wasn’t a one off.
Nicely put Pedro . You should feel vindicated , however I hope we dont get too carried away with this and focus on Brighton ( who have been playing well this season ) . Also big big thumbs up to Ben White , Looked solid all day . Tomiyasu had Son in his vack pocket , the only time he let him out he scored . Loving this Arsenal team . Hope we add some more astute signings this January too . Europe we are coming .
🎵
Tottenham get battered everywhere they go,
Tottenham get battered, everywhere they goooooooooo,
Everywhere they go
🎵
🤣😂
“Don’t want to get carried away but this has shades of when conte won the league at Chelsea 😉”
If we keep our strongest XI fit all season, why not?
It will be interesting to see, if we do this how we would fare against Man City, Chelsea Liverpool and Man United. If we keep our key men fit, our starting XI is younger and faster than many of those sides.
We need to hold onto this feeling and bottle for use when we go through a dip . The team imo can beat anyone but it’ll take a constant micro improvements . I feel at some point they will bang and the first half showed what that can be like
I just hope this is the beginning of something great from Arteta and the boys, anytime I want to put my mind on them it’s always end in pains
Great win, been a while I saw,I hope we get maximum points from Brighton next week
“The fact he’s beaten our biggest rivals means he’ll get away with a draw at Brighton.” No it absolutely does not mean that a draw against a lesser team is ever acceptable, Pedro. Honestly, you come up with some of the most sublime statements in letting your “Chosen One” off the hook. You yourself said that Spurs went into yesterday’s match in worse shape than Arsenal, so a win would therefore be an expected outcome – and a win they did get. Arsenal are a better team than most in the EPL, and this is still despite their handicap of… Read more »