Ok, in the excitement of a win and three important points that extended our lead to 4 points at the top, I was a bit carried away about our performance. Looking back now, we got away with all points in a game we would have otherwise lost. Leeds were ferocious in the second half, should have scored the penalty and couple more and we simply didn’t have an answer to their pressing.
A day of drama, when the game was delayed by more than half an hour due to a power outage (?), an unbelievable goal from Saka, a penalty miss and a penalty plus red card overturned by VAR in stoppage time, is a good day when you come back home with a win.
That second half performance needs to be forgotten by everyone bar Ramsdale. Our defenders were poor including Saliba who made couple of mistakes, one of them was awarded a penalty which Bamford missed. We had ONLY 27% possession in second half against a team which was sitting in 15th position, think about that for once.
What was Gabriel thinking, kicking Bamford in stoppage time in our own box? Coz if he was trying to imitate Patrick Vieira’s kick on Van Nistelrooy, it wasn’t the right time (and match, Man U or Spu*s can be forgiven lol). Thank goodness to the initial contact and foul from Bamford that the penalty and red card was reversed, that could have costed us 2 points and his unavailability for the next game because of a straight red.
Partey was not up to his own standards, Ode was missing and Xhaka took a sabbatical. Considering everything, the football gods were on our side.
A ran a poll last night and the result won’t surprise you.
Enough of moaning, here’s the spicy thing. We are sitting on top of the table, with a 4 point lead against Man City who lost to Liverpool yesterday. That also means we can celebrate the ‘Invincibles Day’ only after 10 games this season.
I have been seeing lots of negativity on Twitter about Gabriel. However, we must not forget he is part of a team who has played 10 and won 9 of them, he has started all of them and is an integral part of the back 4. If you try enough, you can find fault in Messi but lets cut him some slack, he is doing well and I’m sure the manager is coaching him out of those mistakes gradually.
Saka scored yet again, that’s like 4 goals in recent 3 matches. People were complaining about him a month back! Heck, there were people criticising Ramsdale, who was MOTM with some brilliant saves.
Lets enjoy the ride while we can. 3 important points, top of the league with 4 points difference, players full of confidence and a bit of luck. Our next four Premier League games are against Southampton (A), Forest (H), Chelsea (A), Wolves (A). On a good day, we can win all of them and that would mean we go into the world cup break with one of the best points tally in recent times.
Here’s to the Monday, hope you had a nice weekend.
Just hearing about the renewed threat of a euro super league. And there was me, believing the Kroenkes that they were sorry and that normal order was to be restored….
Kroenke
It’s going to happen one way or the other. Personally if it’s set up right – running alongside the PL not replacing it with some form of promotion / relegation then I don’t really have a problem with it. It’s the clubs deciding “why should we let UEFA make money off us?”
Hi Marc
I’m absolutely certain it will irrevocably damage the English top flight (whatever it’ll be called in the brave new world). Euro football (about which l care much less) will also nosedive as a spectacle. There’s an outside risk that our club and its traditions will be diminished. London SpursyGunners v London ChelskiLAdodgerrentboys, live from Singapore at 3am London time. Any takers?
Watching any games tonight?
Hi Kroenke,
If they go down a path of spreading the matches about like you say it’ll kill it stone dead and for a number of reasons. Just my immediate thought on a few of them – the reason the PL is so successful is busy grounds full of passionate fans, you might get a few fans in God knows where be noisy but they won’t match “real” fans. Long distance travel mid week will so undermine the PL matches that the “real” fans will start to stay away and all competitions will suffer – this will then snowball into fan demonstrations etc.
The only way this works is as a Euro league alongside the PL, have 2 divisions of whatever number of teams, the lower league is made up of 3 teams relegated from the upper plus other teams from the major European divisions the top three are promoted.
If they think they can turn PL teams into full on franchises they’ll come unstuck so quick they won’t know if they’re on their heads or their arses.
Anyway, very pleasing to see Spurs losing, and in the awful kit.
Arsenal women’s team were brilliant last night. They beat current CL champions Lyon 5-1 away. Huge achievement after struggling to beat Reading on Sunday. 6pm kick off tonight lads. Don’t forget!
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