I don’t think it is an understatement to say that this is one of the most important games of the last 5 years.
This is bigger than a Europa League final. This is more important than an FA Cup. This game represents bragging rights for the next year and it is probably the most consequential game we’ll have from a future-facing perspective in a long time.
For Spurs, this game is mission-critical. If they lose, things might unravel fast. Antonio Conte could exit, a new manager will need funds to rebuild, that will likely mean major sales and a lot of short-term pain.
For Arsenal, we’re in good shape however the season ends, but really, you want Arsenal to be kicking on with 3 games to go. The upside is tremendous. The confidence of taking something from a beastly away game will be immeasurable, and our extremely young squad will be able to fast-track the learning experience in the toughest competition in the world next season.
Let’s be real though, this game won’t be easy, we could be sending out a starting 11 that is missing 4 key player in Ben White, Bukayo Saka, and Kieran Tierney. That is some serious spine missing from our squad and the fact no one is really talking about how damaging that could be shows you how far we’ve come. I’m expecting us to be very competitive tonight with Tomi at left back, Big Mo in midfield, Eddie up front, and The Smith, Odegaard, and Martinelli supporting.
The psychology of the game is tantalizing.
Every Arsenal fan I speak to is predicting doom.
Every Spurs fan that contacts me is predicting doom.
We are all a bag is nerves and fear.
We are a joke.
I have no predictions.
My strategy would be to sit deep, counter the Harry Kane midfield problem, make them come at us.
The worst thing that can happen is an early goal for them.
The longer the game goes, the more openings we’ll get, this is a test of patience… and nerves. Spurs has more experience than us.
So we’ll see where we go!
IT IS WITH THE GODS NOW!
ENJOY.
ON THE WHISTLE AFTER x
I fuckin hate son
Embarrassing
Mug defending.
Absolute idiot.?
THE BIG HAIRCUT
So stupid. Can’t even argue with the card. Holding acting like he’s never played a derby before. Pathetic.
Cheating c*nt Son
Thanks for that Rob. We’ll get fucked after this
Holding is an imecil, is a f**ing amateuer come on, how do you that when you have a yellow
The ref has gone agaisnt us form the whistle
Fuck these prem refs
This i outrageous
Knew it
Holding has let us down big time. What a time to act the to fool.
Need to get Ben davies sent off
Thanks Ref. Youve just fucking ruined what could have been a classic.
Son is a cunt. Holding was just ‘Holding’ him off (see what I did there)..
Holdings arm hasn’t moved much at all in replay and slow mo. The ref is corrupt seriously . Nothing there like the pen
Knew holding would get sent off, was too hyped up
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Holding lost his head. Not smart at all
That was very, very stupid from Holding.
Very unnecessary.
I hope we hold but this looks tough.
Repeat the referee is bent
Stupidity personified by Holding.
Have to hope we can get something from a free kick or corner.
Well that’s Rob Holding’s last game for Arsenal. Good. I don’t see what fans see in him. Never been good enough.
Elneny is terrible as usual
Cedric and Holding especially knew the stakes of this game and they have messed it up for the rest if the squad. Fuck them.
Sorry, but not even a foul for me. Son is an absolute cheating little shit.
Holding elbowed him end of story now it’s over
That foul was unnecessary there was no pñay at all. 2 amsteur errors are destroying us.
But Arteta is a culprit too, why begin the attacking when spurs was the one with the urgence. Everything is so wrong today
Game over and could be an absolute battering now.
Could be a long night….
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The ref has gone agaisnt us form the whistle
Fuck these prem refs
This i outrageous
You really need to see what’s going on here and that is Arsenal and in particular Cedric and Holding are the issue and not the ref.
We implode like no other team in world football.
We should have play 3 at the back and low block. Those idiots wants us to attack. That’s what is predicted. Arteta makes it really difficult for the fans.
They gonna kill us. Forget about this game. Just try not to go in the history books.
Fuckin useless
Fuxk off
Fuck off
Eddie didn’t track Kane . Another idiot with no awareness
Like I said, Cedric and Holding – fuck them they will let live this down for me.
Offside surely?
Holding followed instructions to the letter.
And whoever said we should cede possession to Spurs coz they don’t know how to play constructive football lied to himself
Holding is a disgrace
No way the refs and Sky let us win this game. Just write it off and win the next two. Some give the ref a spurs shirt.
We are so poor at setting up for these games I said Son is going to cheat.
Conte is good at dark Italian arts.
Arteta hasn’t a clue.
amateur hour stuff on our part….where’s the leadership coming from on this squad? based on Holding’s exploits, from Xhaka….how many times can we commit such ridiculous mistakes in areas of the pitch before some actual lessons are learned…oh shit, Kane again…Eddie’s been reading his recent headlines, as his head is clearly not in this one
And it has to be Kane of course, right stick a fork in this one.
Omg. My phone is blowing up
those areas
I believe we will get another red.
Bollocks!!! Game lost before half time. Football is a contacts game FFS.
Arteta on his part got this wrong. He went full Moyesy on this one. Like mentor like mentee.
We better win Newcastle and Everton!!
Bang goes Champions League football for another season. Still, Arteta has his contract extension.
Just get to half time without doing anything else stupid
Fuck it. Go balls out, full attack.
Fuckkkkkkkkk
Well that’s it.
Look. I’d we lose this, No biggie. We can still do it.
For now, let’s fight it as much as we can
If your going to get sent of for elbowing, you do properly and take the cunt out of the game!!
Poor defending. How many set piece goals are we going to concede?
Inexperience coming to haunt us.
How can we be so bad tonight? Good lord its painful viewing
Ode not easy for these type of games.
And that’s that.
Noirs or but but are going to have to beat Newcastle away and that will not be easy
Those three games lost cost us we deserve Jack shit.
So so naive on these dark arts… our subpar squad players just fell for it
Holding and.Soares not good enough for arsenal and unable to handle the pressure
And artrta says Saliba isn’t fucking ready
Game over, just have to keep it together now and not let it get to us gor the two massive games coming up
He should have subbed a player and put white on straight away
This game shows we clearly need better squad players. They have done okay but Holding needs to be 4th choice. Cedric needs to play less next season too.
Playing Odegaard in these type of games is like playing Ozil. Nothing player when they don’t give him all the time in the world. Slow as a bloody turtle.
The ref has gifted them the game. It’s outrageous.
When you see the starting team you have to say we don’t have top quality in any position
I would play all Subs and rest Saka, Martinelli and Ode. The game is lost anyway.
FFS, so the decision to shithouse Son resulted in a penalty, a sending off and a second goal. Tactical genius, huh?
Spanish
Very true
The ref has fucked us
Never 2 yellows
Sorry but this is just wrong in so many levels
I’m disgusted
I could live with the pen but the sending off is a disgrace
Cedric needs to be binned full stop.
Arteta is really poor, not a chance of him changing anything second half
I agree Cedric is not good enough the game is beyond us already, although I would usually say we can come back not against spurs away
Pauline behave lass
ESR needs to come on sharpish
We need a draw here
thar was fast
Anybody still watching? Might as well wait till Monday now.
Arsenal go to war… yeah the football equivalent of the Maginot Line
If we planned to stuff Son just kick his knee in first 5 min and he’s off. A yellow that’s all. Silly buggers
Half arse tackles.
No one blocking the crosses.
No one tracking runs.
If we’re going to lose, at least go down fighting
Arteta should just take out his phone and call Pep for advice.
Yep. Europe was lost in those three defeats. We’d be home and dry now.
Son is an expert in diving. He is too tricky for both Cedric and Holding to handle.
Ordegard is nothing of a player
Can’t fuxking shoot these guys. Odegarde and Saka
So pathetic and predictable all we needed to do wa splay smart like Tottenham wind themselves up and play defensive we should have played for a draw and tried to hurt them in the counter
Instead we were rattled from the very first second and completely got suckered in and fell for the dark arts of contes side
We’re at their ground and the stadium is packed. It’s a massive game for them. It’s not fair to say we are bottling it. We’re just not much better than them to begin with.
This game is over but we have to keep it respectable.
We’re so lucky that Everton might be already saved by the time we play them, and also the game is at the Emirates.
we would never win this game. CL with 2 games to spare, never, not Arsenal style.
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The ref has fucked us
Never 2 yellows
Sorry but this is just wrong in so many levels
I’m disgusted
I could live with the pen but the sending off is a disgrace
It’s not down to the ref that’s 100% down to Arsenal.. it really was two yellows and Holding is long enough in the tooth not to play in such a reckless manner
incredibly naive performance, totally the wrong approach very likely just blown fourth and CL football, incompetent from players and manager alike. silly to give arteta a new contract before season has ended, same old modern Arsenal utterly mediocre
I just don’t get why after being on the front foot for the first 20 and getting Davies a yellow, why we didn’t go for the jugular, instead of once again reverting to the whole 11 men behind the ball bus parking exercise
Odegaard is pathetic
Raptora correct some people on here are a joke it’s still in our hands
Jesus Odegaard.
Holding’s second foul could even be a straight red. Incredibly dumb and why I was horrified when Arteta captained him a while ago.
Odegaard is also a shit captain.
Saka should take on Davies until he gets a second yellow.
wtf they give him new deal just before crucial games. joke management
Martinelli has to win us a pen … just keep driving into the pen box ffs. Why still playing U crab football like 2 up??
holidng, cedric…..just bang average. terrible game craft from the pair of them
Personally now I’d rotationally foul Son.
Holding wasn’t even looking when Son did that
Tierney is god awful , awful ref
This isn’t on Arteta except for you can argue against him starting them but up till this point Holding came in and coped reasonably well. Holding, knows the importance of this game and gave a very willing ref two easy decisions to make. Cedric makes inane mistakes in every game. They should know better.
We now have to win against Newcastle and Everton, hopefully our confidence isn’t dented from this debacle.
People will see the replay at half time and change their mind on Holding second yellow. Straight Red for me.
Comedy extravaganza again and again
Turned it off. I can’t watch this pile of complete and utter bollocks.
Arteta has got it wrong. For all his arm waving Arteta did nothing to rein in Holding or sort out Cedric. Shape has fallen apart. Eddie having to track deep hunting for the ball.
If there’s an arsonist on the touchline tonight it ain’t Conte.
Rollen stop talking shit ffs foolish chat from you there
It is what it is away to our biggest rival and a player losses his head that’s it