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
Keep your heads now, we don’t want any more sending offs and suspensions, we need to think about the next two games, forget this one
How fucking far has our team fallen in the last 20yrs….its fucking embarrassing..
I’m embarrassed for these chokers now. Arteta just hasn’t a bloody clue
Good managers always have a game plan. They analyse and they exploit weaknesses and they change things up against certain opposition. Arteta doesn’t have that. His plan either works or it doesn’t. And mostly, when he comes up against an astute manager he gets beaten. Conte would have cum in his pants seeing Cedric and Holding line up against Son. Arteta gifted him the best he could have hoped for. We never seem to have a clever plan to beat a team. We line up, same team usually, same formation, same tactics. Week in week out. And as I said… Read more »
To all those who said Rob Holdings second yellow was a red..
GO and look at Harry Kanes challenge on Andy Robertson.
Also… where the fuck is VAR tonight when you need it? Strange…
Toilet bowl is very noisy, wonder if we will ever win there agsin
Ah look
Arsenal are losing ad le grove comments blows up
Cunts
Mostly non Londoners to boot
Fick sake Saka. Know how to shoot when we needed it?
This will show this club that the likes of Elneny, Holding, Cedric are okay in isolation but over a stretch of games, their true nature will reveal themselves. If we can regroup after this, then everything is still in our hands.
The players must not drop their heads collectively for the remaining two, as this game was essentially decided by boneheaded moments from Cedric and Holding.
Glad you’re all enjoying it
Not a true gooner among ya
Why the fuck have we wet the bed?????????
It was them that needed a win. We should have been patient and let them lose their cool
Poor mentality
Well said un
Shut up un
As stupid as Hilding was, the 2nd yellow wasn’t a yellow. Son the pro conman acted and timed so well
Maybe I need to withdraw my earlier post. Holding has robbed us
Le Mass
To all those who said Rob Holdings second yellow was a red..GO and look at Harry Kanes challenge on Andy Robertson.Also… where the fuck is VAR tonight when you need it? Strange…
Had it been a red then VAR could have viewed it but they can not look at yellows. That rule has worked in Arsenals favour in the past.
Odegaard slowing it down yet again
Ffs 🤦🏻♂️
@un….wtf are you on about?
These chokers won’t win another game this season, 4th is gone
KaraulMay 12, 2022 20:56:22
Shut up un
I soeak the truth
You don’t love arsenal
You love your opinion
It’s still in our hands with 2 games left against Newcastle away and Everton at home.
I would rather be in our shoes than Spurs.
We go again on Monday.
We conceded a few within 5, 10 min of scoring.but hardly done the reverse. Wonder why
mr serge chucking around words like troll then being an abusive potty mouthed lout at other posters.
sorry if you are a delusional arteta/kroenke fan but that is your idiocy shining through, no need to take your embarrassment out on others !
If holding took the nastiness out of his game tonight, he’d have probably had a very good game
He was too hyped
Don’t get on his back, he was stupid but just pumped up and emotions got the better of him
Yep it’s still in our hands for sure as much as this result hurts for some of us on here
My only opinion of tonight is that you are pathetic wanker. Otherwise in just sad and hoping that Tottenham will loose points on sunday
Conte deserves a written formal apology from Pedro.
Our inexperienced and no discipline players showing up tonight plus a ref swayed by the atmosphere
As Berkhamp says – we go again
Goona
I’m on about people here enjoying this
It’s atrocious
They are savouring this to vindicate their opinion on the coach the olayers or whoever
No true gooner is making those comments
Not even a debate
I hope Odegaard is #7 captain after the likes of Laca, Partey, Tierney, Xhaka (who refuses it), Rams, White. If you ask me, Gabriel and Saka should also be ahead of him.
I’m talking about the future. But it’s obvious how much Arteta likes him.
Look on the bright side, Holding’s probably played his last game for us after that display, Saliba will take his place next season.
Yes it’s in our hands, let’s just play this one out, forget it and get ready for a BIG game Monday night
KaraulMay 12, 2022 20:59:15
My only opinion of tonight is that you are pathetic wanker. Otherwise in just sad and hoping that Tottenham will loose points on sunday
Yeah mate
Enjoy your victory tonight
Another non gooner
@Mr Serge Glad I succeeded in annoying an Arteta Fan Boy, which lessens the pain of the loss to Sp*ds a bit easier to take. It is not loosing the game, it is the manner of loosing and imploding that is maddening. A good manager earns his worth after such a result, look what Pep did after City lost to RM. On the other hand Arteta could hand us a symmetrical season ending it the way he started it 3 losses in a row. This is on Arteta and no one else to get the team up mentally for such… Read more »
Samuel
Why????
I was bout to say to the gooners on this site to not turn on each other then I read your comment. Pedro needs to apologise to conte
Bloody hell mate no he doesn’t
Kane playing better than Ode as a 10
Thank fxck we had George Graham at Anfield in ’89.
Nobody is enjoying this. Get a grip.
Might as well rest Martinelli and Saka, put on some fresh legs to kick the hell outta of the two cunts
Kilroy don’t address me I don’t talk to spurs fans you are the biggest troll on here end of story I have nothing further to say to,you liilywhite
It’s the hope that kills ya, still in our hands but this could be damaging.
We just need to keep the numbers down and forget this game as soon as possible. It’s still in our hands. Newcastle and Everton (who will hopefully have nothing to play for) isn’t the hardest run in.
Un nobody is enjoying anything
Why was our slowest defender tasked with guarding their fastest and best player? This is embarassing. Arteta has a massive job on his hands in next two games.
Why was our slowest defender tasked with guarding their fastest and best player? This is embarrassing. Arteta has a massive job on his hands in next two games.
We should bring Patino on then tell him to break Sons legs just to derail their run in
The thing is spurs are not very good but they have a manager, we have a spoofer
It’s still in our hands roll on Monday
Europa is huge success to right Serge?
Top four doesn’t matter, we will be utterly humiliated in Europe anyway with the pep pretender spasing on the touchline
Un/Don
If you arnt looking at Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal and not feeling rage, then you are definitely not a fucking gooner you sad little gimp.
Un, Mr Serge
They are a nothing short of a disgrace.
A shame some still can’t see the bigger picture.
Jekyll & Hyde we are as a team. We shouldn’t be keeping or giving contracts to the likes of Elneny and Nketiah. Let them move on and buy in quality that can perform for the whole season. This result is pathetic but not that surprising with what is at stake do you really want these fringe players being the ones to help you get the victory or having far better and superior players doing the business??? Fans get too sentimental after these fringe players perform over a few games. The season is long and we need better if we want… Read more »
Un you are only true Arsenal fan sure. Sniffing glue in Lagos probably
Cedric is so shit
Un, what sort of a clown ate you to defend this
yup players mindset was off from the get go and that’s on arteta both in preparation and selection – holding needs to watch keown/adams and learn controlled aggression/game smarts. thick as mince, and not learning. as troubling manager persists with him and cedric….give me strength what is he doing at arsenal.
Time to cripple that dog eating cunt.
Mentally weak.
Arteta hasn’t got it for the big games.
No point getting into the CL as we cannot get into the knockout stages.
We are really slowly going backwards.
Never going to win the Prem we are so far behind
Are
Yep db10 I would still rather be 4 th than fifth we just made it harder lol
KaraulMay 12, 2022 21:03:40
Un nobody is enjoying anything
👍
Doesn’t look that way to me mate
just like during Wenger’s latter years, the Kool-Aid crew will look to point the finger of blame at anyone and everyone, minus the man in charge…at some point you’ve got to take your head out of the proverbial sand and look squarely in the mirror…this one trick pony of a manager has a definitive ceiling and only a massive investment in top level players will change that very sobering fact…I would suspect that as I’m writing this ESR will come on to somehow replace our most effective forward, instead of taking off Ode, as he’s so predictable
Xhaka didn’t think of closing down Kane and just let him shoot. Epitomize our approach to defense. Don’t close down, don’t block
Un. Thats bollocks. TRue Gooner here. I am fucking gutted but can still think without losing my head. Can’t blame people for being despondent. We were on top when it was 11 v 11.. We have reverted to form from mid-season where we’ve been our own worst enemy’s again (with a bit of help from trigger card ref). I guess that managing these type of games needs experienced players and an experienced manager. We aren’t there yet. It will take more time. Arteta and this young squad are going in the right direction imo (despite tonight). Newcastle will be another… Read more »
Matt
Good comment!!
thelegendarydb10 is your post ironic ?! see the bigger picture ? the bigger picture is we have very likely just smoked fourth place
Spanish Dave did we not beat Chelsea away and Man U last week ? Where they not big games mate ?
Fans like Serge are actually ghe problem…this whole suport the team no matter how shite they are is why Arsenal.are so mediocre…no angst from the fans means the board and mgt do whatever the fuck they want
There isn’t a single leader in this fucking team, hasn’t been for years, squad full of whimps
Danny s
Yes I’m feeling rage
But directing it towards the ref
I’m not feeling glee at my opinion on Arteta being vindicated
@ jonko….spot on
Dury & Beglin, in between the constant barrage of meaningless statistics they regurgitate, its…..Son…..Kane…..Kane….Son……..Kane…..!!
Tottenham still 5th😂
No point getting into the CL
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If you want players like Jesus to come to us then there’s a huge point.
ESR on for Martinelli when Ode was the obvious one to take off. Disappears when the going gets tough I’m afraid.
Serge big games dont always mean against big teams…we lost 3 in a row..those were against easy opponents but were the real big games because it would have sealed top 4…but as usual Arsenal choked
Amazon Documentary target had been reached.
Did you know that exactly 20 years to the date, we were celebrating Double on the streets of Islington? Makes you think.
Arsenal should buy some ready made players. The young players have done their bit. Experienced battle ready players please.
Let’s blow the fucking.whistle. Enough of this crap makes no difference how it happens really. Shit nvoice and there you go.
Just noticed Ode is still in the pitch
Yep. Tottenham still 5th
Cedric and Holding to blame tonight no one else as we were comfortable till they both had their brain fart moments
Due to this game where we are down to 10 and we are going backwards 😂
We will lose this and be 1 point ahead with two games to go
Have a look at the last 4 seasons and see where we were with two games to go
Let’s smash Newcastle and then Everton
COYGs
WardoMay 12, 2022 21:01:48 Samuel Why???? I was bout to say to the gooners on this site to not turn on each other then I read your comment. Pedro needs to apologise to conte Bloody hell mate no he doesn’t He does because even if you back Arteta, which I still do btw, there was never any need for Pedro to take shots at Conte like an idiot for months calling him “luckiest manager alive”. You don’t disrespect a man who has accomplished what Conte has accomplished in the last few years. That’s just ignorance and makes us all look… Read more »
our footballing identity is very fragile. crumbles under pressure. set up was wrong for this game. should have started with a defensive and counter attacking mindset.
we’re making fucking spurs look like prime real madrid
Can’t see why Martinelli got taken off
Ode was the obvious one to take off
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Arteta has made Ode undroppable.
Fuck off and stay away from FK, soares
those were the days amazing to think how far our standards have fallen in two decades, this is just such a sad evolution – the lego man, weak players and too many yes men fans. but we have an amazon documentary and the turnover is great so the kroenkes are happy. oh woop
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We started this game well.
Individual lapses caused this defeat. And we crumbled.
Paddy G
Rather rest Martinelli for Monday really
Jonko
No mate
Call it what it is
IT’s unacceptable officiating
Unaccountable
Killed the game
Just like they did with Leeds the other day. For me, that wasn’t a sending off against us
The player lost his footing and his momentum took him
On top of that the ref cost Leeds a big game
The occasion gets to their heads and they take centre stage
Takes a special kind of cock to be a ref
Just like a traffic warden
Arteta deserves criticism for sure
But to see so much glee, to me, is sickening as a gooner
Buffalo
We certainly fucking haven’t.
You know full well we have 2 games to go left.
Some are shitting themselves over Newcastle, they are less of a threat than the Spuds are.
A far more winnable game than this one (if we stay focused ofc)
We really don’t have any cleverness in the last third.
Laca came on to retire 👏
World War 1 phrase applies here, Lions (Young Gunners) are led into battle (War against Sp*ds) by a Jackass (Arteta).
No ifs and buts the finger clearly points at him for not getting the team into a mental frame of mind to toy with the Sp*ds, unlike Conte who did.
Very well spotted the problem is with the AFBs who support this shit management team and therefore they get away with murdering our AFC.
Makes sense useroz. Explains the nketiah sub also
Buffalo – we’ve won 21 games this season . We’ve lost this one . We’ve had no help from the ref whatever we think about Holding.
8-2 vs United 6-0 against Chelsea those were dreadful days . This is just a loss