compeletely dominated them. just unbeliavable how good they run. michael oliver is a gooner.

Fully aboard the Gooner train!

Need City to screw up at some point though, don’t know where it will be though. Certainly can’t see it happening today!

You have to do something with the ball when you have possession, and take chances when you get them.
Also, defending is quite important.

finished a goal more than your lot. vdv goal was 1cm offside (according to reynolds it wasnt a offside at all, idk about that). should have had a penalty in the first half for the clip on kulusevski. some teams get injuries and have to play a ben davies as their lb.

Don't think we "dominated" them by any stretch, but us even being behind at the half let alone 3-0 down wasn't a fair representation of the play.

To be fair Arsenal did always look more dangerous in attack and we hardly looked likely to ever be able to properly break them down - their shape off the ball is just unbelievably good.

Fair play tbh to them.

It's the hope that kills you, at 3-0 I had given up and was just sad, then at 3-2 I was convinced we were not only going to equalize but also win, now I'm just gutted.

Inject it straight into my veins.

Don’t forget if they call that a penalty arsenals second goal gets waived off. That’s a 2 goal swing there.

Oh and happy St. Totteringhams day.

*1.76 goal swing

Ha! Fair play.

Scouring the internet, it seems I'm about the only one on the planet who gives a **** about the sequence so there's a possibility it's one of the extremely rare times I'm incorrect.

I'll take a luck box win at the tail end of the season.

Also the amount of goals Chris Wood should have had in this game.

Also happy st totteringhams day

City have less business getting something from this game than arsenal did vs spurs by a country mile

Up to the Sours to beat City and keep alive their hopes of fourth place. Go on, you know you want to win the PL for us.

So tilted I swapped Gvardiol for Gabriel in fpl and then of course haaland comes on to block his sub.

I'm fully on the "play the reserves vs City" train now. Meaningless game for us anyway as no way we are getting fourth.

Yep, and this is why I ****ing hate the ANGE OUT crowd or anyone that is moaning about "performances" when what they really mean is results.

It's difficult emotionally to separate the two, but in a lot of games recently we've run below expectation AND / OR also not played well, but today wasn't one of those.

We need like 3-4 starters (including, critically, our very own Declan Rice type) and several more squad players to really be competitive. But there's definite progress in the right direction.

I would imagine there's going to be some nice edges backing spurs vs chelsea/newcastle/united for season points spreads. Be curious where the markets will be going into next season. I think spurs and villa have the best floor, and good upside amongst all the teams that will be competing for t5. Saudi's seem to have lost interest in newcastle as their new play thing, and chelsea/united need to show me something before I believe they are anything but dysfunctional messes. Both spurs and villa have coaches who have buy in from their team for their systems and a clear style of play they want to execute, but both have some squad holes that they need to fix to progress.

Isn't that because they're right at the edge of FFP? They've been in for two and a half years and spent nearly £400m on players and only recouped about £40m back.

No, the difference was Wood is a lower league level striker who can’t take his chances and Haaland is lethal.

Spurs mentality summed up perfectly.

As well and more importantly PSR, it’s a complete joke that they and Villa are in a situation where they maybe forced to sell their best players in order to stay within PSR. It just means they’re going to have to take years and years in order to be able to spend - unless they manage to sell more players to SA.

They will have the issue of everyone will want fair market value for both their sponsorships and player sales.

I think, the only way they’ll be able to do it quickly and even then it’s difficult would be to do a lottery where everyone wins a ticket, i.e they sell raffle tickets for tickets and everyone who buys one gets a winner so they can over inflate their tickets sales revenue. As well as selling boxes for ridiculous us amounts similar to what R.A done at Chelsea with his £1m season ticket. Guess that’ll be scrutinised as well if Newcastle tried something like that. Really difficult for them to rapidly grow under the current climate.

I won't accept this Chris Wood slander, he's been great this season. Only player with higher non-pen goals per 90 this season is Jota (not including guys who have one or two goals in a handful of minutes) and he's doing it for a **** team

Yeah I’d agree with that. Spurs first half performance was good but the lack of a cutting edge and poor defending always caps results. Even sakas goal should have been better defended.

Villa have some difficult fixtures left, pressure they're not used to dealing with, and can still slip up.

I’m going to break with convention and agree with the spurs fan. Given the choice of sours winning the league and arse qualifying for the CL, or both missing out, I’m taking a year in the EL. But maybe if I didnt live in a slightly spursy area and wouldn’t have to see those facial expressions I might feel differently, I don’t know.