Of course I am pretty excited for the North London Derby tomorrow at Shite Hart Lane, hence the title. To make it more interesting, Manchester United has just beaten City 2-1 at Old Trafford. I have never been happy in my life seeing United win except for today. Not letting City have those 3 points means there will a minimum of 5 points difference after tomorrow’s North London Derby. I am pretty confident we gonna improve that point difference to 8 f*king points!
We need to win tomorrow and we will! We are in some great form, Spu*s have been shit and ESR is back. A backline of White, Gabriel, Saliba and Zinchenko.. fully fit midfield of Partey and Xhaka and the front 4 of Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli and Eddie will going to be too much for the Tottenham. Our Captain, Martin, has won the Premier League Player Of The Month and Mikel, the manager of the month for Nov/Dec; Saka and Martinelli has been high on confidence and playing some of the best football of their life; Eddie has been scoring and didn’t let us miss Jesus till now. I’m sure they would be buzzing for a North London Derby and I’m sure they all want to score tomorrow.
On top of that, we will have ESR on bench, who comes as a sub and makes an instant impact. We have a fully fit Tomiyasu and Tierney in case we need them. Midfield has been a concern but I am not in a mood to complain today.
There are couple of things to worry. We haven’t won against Spu*s in our last 8 PL games at Sh*te Hart Lane, having lost 6 and sharing points on other 2 occasions. We need to change that. The other concerning thing is the refereeing and Kane/Son going down like they love the smell of the grass. If you are an Arsenal fan, you know at some point there will a tiny touch from one of our players, a dive from Kane or Son and Referee pointing to the spot. VAR will not find it important to take a look, or even if they do, they will use only couple of angles which lets the penalty stand and they score. Unfortunately, that’s what happens!
Irrespective of it, I am excited for the Derby. A 4.30 PM start for our UK readers (10 PM Indian Standard Time) is a perfect way to end weekend with a win and 8 point lead at the top.
Lets do it, lets thrash them! Lets go for the league.
Just seen a replay of Partey hitting the post. Spurs fans in the crowd were ducking…
LOL Ambarish
Divyanshu
I agree mate. The passing today has been superb. Second ball winning and pressing fantastic. Everyone playing their part.
for the love of God, I can only hope that we continue to press high in the second half…too often in the past, we’ve allowed teams to get back into a match by sitting deeper and attempting to defend our way into wins…it’s foot on the neck time, which will send a clear message that our footballing mindset has fundamentally changed
we’re inviting way too much pressure…it’s way too early in this affair to start with the deeper-sitting bullshit
Just getting a bit ragged. Need to change it up with some route 1 and channel running.
Mikel Twateta. Cannot resist being an arse. Classless.
ESR on for Xhaka?
just imagine if Eddie knew how to shoot…Xhaka has a lot of balls milking a phantom hard tackle considering his history…get it though, from a seed-planting exercise
spot on KP—he reminds me of every failed athlete I encountered who turned to officiating, as they just can’t help themselves
would love to see ESR for Xhaka, but I find it diffcult to fathom…much more likely that Elneny is on his way, or maybe Tomi
Big miss by Eddie
that’s now a hat trick of failed Grade A chances for Eddie…he’s simply got to be better when given the opportunities
Free kick 😉
with Perisic on his way, we must be willing to still get forward and put this game to bed, as there will be openings on the counter…I just wish our manager had any faith in our bench, as fresh legs would definitely provide a bit of a lift
not sure if Tierney for Marts would have been high on my list, but I get it though
More subs?
Substitutions or lack of them exposes the limitations ofbArteta as a coach. In spite of excellent Assistants to help him in decision
Finally at remaining 2 minutes of play, so Arteta can say he is giving chances. But that is only a chance to fail.
Perverse
Spuds losing and one aiming a kick or punch at Ramsdale.
Celebrating there in front of our fans is momentous. Big symbolism. Echoes of the past. 71 all over again?
Pleasing win. We were much better than them. Defence was outstanding but also under little pressure and rode it well.
I’d echo those thoughts K’phobe. We played good football where the Spuds weren’t at the races. Great stuff.
Good night gys
Doubling Spurs in the league was a yardstick of our success in the leaner years. This season may turn out to be a little special.
Tony
Pumpkin is now officially recognised as a good luck mascot!
crucial 3 points….now let’s take that momentum into the boardroom and shore up this squad in the TW….as I’ve said on numerous occasions, this organization needs to recognize the importance of making moves while in a position of strength…the worst lesson we could learn from this performance is that we don’t need to make moves…just look how tired Eddie appeared to be in the last 20, which could have cost us if the Spurs weren’t so incredibly flat going forward
TRVL
Good stuff. Which names /positions are you thinking of? I’m coming round to prising Milinkovic away from Lazio and/or a big CF like Thuram (in that order).
Decided on entering radio silence for the match,the aul nerves kicked in. I’m not sure if I’ll ever fully trust Ramsdsle,I don’t like keepers who court attention ala Pickford. But he was fantastic today and I take my hat off to him. I thought spurs would change their keeper this year,I even speculated they might buy Leno,but I don’t know where they go now. There are very few good ones out there especially after Newcastle snapped up Pope. When you see clubs like Chelsea,utd, and spurs struggling with their keepers you know there’s a shortage. I rated lloris but he has far too many errors in his game now.
Am still undecided on Eddie,his finishing isn’t exactly clinical but he has really improved at his hold up play and is able to keep defenders busy now in a way he previously couldn’t. I thought he was very impressive today. A word for Odegaard also who stepped up in a difficult away game and showed courage. But its our defence that was outstanding for me,all of them. As poor as Spurs were, Kane,Son and Kulu are as good as it gets in the premiership and our boys nullified them completely for long periods. Isn’t there some old footballing adage about games being won by offences but titles being won by defences? If there isn’t there should be. The days of hiding behind the couch when opponents had set pieces in our half seem to be over at last thank God. There is real pleasure to be had in performances like that,result aside. That’s it now as far as I’m concerned, the title is the aim. And it’s a realistic aim. Nothing being presumed mind you,just willing to start dreaming again.
Kroenkephobe,
Another prediction spot on. Were you Mystic Meg in a former life?
KP—depends if we’re willing to go big game hunting or not…the fact that they showed their hand with our supposed pursuit of Mudryk, that can’t claim that they don’t have the resources available to spend…I’m a huge fan of Savic, but I doubt MA would invest so heavily in someone who would assuredly put Xhaka on the bench…I do like the notion of getting a bigger target up top, which is why I thought a cheap Weghorst would have been a nice pick-up this time last year…frankly, if we weren’t so piss poor when it came to recruitment from Serie A, I would love to make a push for Pellegrini…he’s a true leader of men, who can thread a pass and shoot from distance…it’s so difficult to throw names out there because it appears as if my understanding of our deficiencies is somehow vastly different from our manager’s…like I said before though, I would definitely sniff around Barca due to their exorbitant financial issues
here some rather sketchy circular logic being spewed by MA regarding the current TW:
Mudryk was Arsenal’s top target and the Gunners had been involved in lengthy negotiations with Shakhtar, seemingly closing in on a deal before Chelsea swooped to hijack the deal over the weekend.
“I’m very proud to have the players that we have,” Arteta told Sky Sports when asked about Chelsea signing Mudryk.
“We always want to improve the squad. The club is the first one that is trying to do everything we can to improve the players.
“But I think as well we have to have some discipline. We have to be very consistent in the targets that we want but also in what we are able to do in each moment.”
only at Arsenal would this sort of word salad be not only acceptable but actually applauded by some
First off to the NLD. We dominated and I must say if the squad stays healthy the title is ours to loose. Be of greatest interest ManU next at the Emirates, hope we can do to them what we did to the Sp*ds.
Eddie needs to do better. He had 3 chances just him and Lloris and he fluffed it. His touches are heavy and bringing down the ball needs massive improvement. He is a good 2nd striker but if Jesus is not match fit until end of March we need help.
Now to the Chelsea and Mudryk saga. It reminded me of what took place in 2008 as the US government bailed out the financial institutions to the tune of $700 billion. It became common knowledge that one of them AIG who received $154 billion in bailout paid $503 million in Bonuses to their executives. This caused a congressional inquiry and in the following YouTube clip representative Elijah Cummings is destroying Neel Kashkari, the assistant Treasury secretary over his handling of the 2008 bailouts. For me Cummings reasoning applies to Todd Boehly and Chelsea.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSCZQSXGuU
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Listen to the 3 minute intro and see if you do not agree that Todd & Chelsea in their present transfer dealings are looked at by the footballing world as chumps.
They have now set the standard for themselves where no club will ever except their bids but will insist to be paid their valuation as they see Todd as a chump.
Next, what will happen when players on +7 year contracts find out that when all the injured players come back and the dressing room then will look like Trafalgar Square resulting in +60% of the players not being in the match day squad? That will make for some spicy atmosphere in the entire team.
Can’t wait for Micky Mudflaps lining up at the Emirate and see what kind of reception he will receive from the Gunner supporters. Already feel sorry for the young kid and I hope that the reception will not have too much of a damaging effect on his psyche. But as they say Karma is a bitch and poetic justice is definitely called for as he will graduate from the school of hard knocks. There are more important things in life than money.