Match Day Thread Arsenal vs. Tottenham Hotspur 2015/16 Official Match Thread

[Boss]

Watching the game today and reading this thread is like two different events. maybe it is because i am not as emotional about the game but Arsenal were the better team for most of the match except a 10 minute spell. Arsenal had more possession and just slightly more of the ball in dangerous areas as well as creating far more clear chances than Tottenham. That is what i saw and then Sky showed the same. i was confused because Sky then said Tottenham dominated possession but they did not . Arsenal did.
Ozil was very good today and he created all Arsenal best chances and i counted 5 including the goal and at least two of the others should have been scored. Tottenham only created half chances after their goal.

Neville commented from an unbiased view, "Tottenham were by far the superior team", which we were. Dominated the midfield, better tactics and dealt with your quick passing to try and open our defence up.

However, you clearly had our number from set pieces and punts into the box, 4 clear cut chances to score from headers, on clear cut chances you should have won the game as for all our superior tactics/midfield control, we failed to create clear cut chances to match.

Enjoyable game but quite clearly you have no chance of the title (which all sane goons understand) but who can stop us finishing top four? only ourselves and if we/Pochettino can't finish top four this season with Chelsea out of sorts and Liverpool in transition, then it will be a lost opportunity.

 

[Spurf]

Although we didn't truly deserve anything from the match, let's be honest here, you're not going to be performing at a high level week in, week out. There will be some games that are tight and nervy, and it is in those games where we need our attacking players to step up when it matters because one moment of clinical finishing/brilliance can determine the outcome.

Giroud had two free headers that both should have been buried. There are absolutely no excuses to not score both of them.

I can guarantee you if Kane was on the end of both of those key chances, we'd have won the game, deservedly or not.

No if Kane was on the end it would be at the other end He plays for Spurs BTW.

 

[Jayramfootball]

Neville commented from an unbiased view, "Tottenham were by far the superior team", which we were. Dominated the midfield, better tactics and dealt with your quick passing to try and open our defence up.

However, you clearly had our number from set pieces and punts into the box, 4 clear cut chances to score from headers, on clear cut chances you should have won the game as for all our superior tactics/midfield control, we failed to create clear cut chances to match.

Enjoyable game but quite clearly you have no chance of the title (which all sane goons understand) but who can stop us finishing top four? only ourselves and if we/Pochettino can't finish top four this season with Chelsea out of sorts and Liverpool in transition, then it will be a lost opportunity.

But i think you are being biased.

How can Arsenal have far more possession of the ball, create more clear cut chances have more corners and at the same time be dominated? Not only did Arsenal have more of the ball but they had more of the ball in dangerous areas and did more with the ball when they had it, well according to what i watched and what the numbers say. Sometimes when a smaller team goes to the home of a big team and dont get completely outplayed there is an over reaction and what actually happened is skewed a bit in favour of the plucky away side. Commentators do that all the time and it happened with Arsenal too who got completely outplayed by Bayern Munich yet won 2-0 and the details of the game were lost a bit in the excitement.

 

[Arsenal87]

Neville commented from an unbiased view, "Tottenham were by far the superior team", which we were. Dominated the midfield, better tactics and dealt with your quick passing to try and open our defence up.

However, you clearly had our number from set pieces and punts into the box, 4 clear cut chances to score from headers, on clear cut chances you should have won the game as for all our superior tactics/midfield control, we failed to create clear cut chances to match.

Enjoyable game but quite clearly you have no chance of the title (which all sane goons understand) but who can stop us finishing top four? only ourselves and if we/Pochettino can't finish top four this season with Chelsea out of sorts and Liverpool in transition, then it will be a lost opportunity.

Lol, joint top of the league, and have no chance of the league? We may very well not win the league, most likely won't, but at this point to say we have no chance, just sounds ******ed....And this is coming someone who is a big critic of Arsenal when we under perform, everyone here can vouch that I completely wrote us off 2 months ago, so I'm not just saying this to be biased, but we do clearly have a chance at the moment, we are joint top of the league, won 5 out of our last 6 league games, won every single away game this season except against Chelski when we went down to 9 men. So you're quite clearly talking from your backside when you say we have no chance.

It's funny also how all you dumbass spurs fans want to conveniently ignore the fact that we had so many key players missing, like Ramsey, Walcott, Bellerin, and then back up players in the likes of the OX, Wellbeck etc etc. If we had options today we would have beaten you 100%, you were barely hanging on in the end, if we just had some more firepower on the bench, we would have put you to the sword.

 

[Boss]

But i think you are being biased.

How can Arsenal have far more possession of the ball, create more clear cut chances have more corners and at the same time be dominated? Not only did Arsenal have more of the ball but they had more of the ball in dangerous areas and did more with the ball when they had it, well according to what i watched and what the numbers say. Sometimes when a smaller team goes to the home of a big team and dont get completely outplayed there is an over reaction what actually happened is skewed a bit.

Not biased at all, as I'm not a great fan of Pochettino as a manager and happy to admit when the opposition are better, but on this occasion we looked in control, defensive unit wasn't troubled by your quick passes/interchanges and if we had more experience, we would have closed that game out, as we let you back into the game.

Still you had them headers, couple of moments when I looked away thinking "****ing goons" lol but somehow we survived them chances, with one of them due to Lloris staying on his line, madness, as he usually always takes control!

 

[Jayramfootball]

Not biased at all, as I'm not a great fan of Pochettino as a manager and happy to admit when the opposition are better, but on this occasion we looked in control, defensive unit wasn't troubled by your quick passes/interchanges and if we had more experience, we would have closed that game out, as we let you back into the game.

Still you had them headers, couple of moments when I looked away thinking "****ing goons" lol but somehow we survived them chances, with one of them due to Lloris saying on his line, madness, as he usually always takes control!

But your defence was very troubled, though from crosses not through the middle, because Arsenal created 5 clear chances including the goal. I think it was a close game that Arsenal edged in terms of play and more than edged in terms of chances. i am not even an Arsenal fan although they are my favourite english team. I am just looking at the details of the game.

 

[Boss]

But your defence was very troubled, though from crosses not through the middle, because Arsenal created 5 clear chances including the goal. I think it was a close game that Arsenal edged in terms of play and more than edged in terms of chances.

Isn't that what I've typed above? But as Neville said "Tottenham were by far the superior team" so lets leave it to the neutrals to have the final say.

 

[Jayramfootball]

Isn't that what I've typed above? But as Neville said "Tottenham were by far the superior team" so lets leave it to the neutrals to have the final say.

I left it to what happened in the game. i dont really like Gary Neville very much.

 

[TheOXOCube:5pur2]

Just got back from the pub (finally found one at the University)
First half was dire, I mean one of our worst first halves in ages. Usually when teams press us we rely on two things to counter it 1.) Santi dribbling past the pressers and 2.) Pace in behind. We had neither today as Santi was ill or drunk, Sanchez was knackered and Joel (he wasn't terrible just ineffective) isn't the guy you expect to change a game. They dominated and got to all 50-50s. For me game changed once we brought Gibbs on and swapped Sanchez to RW because Sanchez got no joy down the left but Gibbs with fresh legs was able to trouble them. Ozil quality as usual with the pass and goal. Giroud battled and really was only disappointed with the header from the corner/cross that went wide of the post, the others he couldn't have done much better.
International break comes at the best time as we'll get Ramsey, Ox and Bellerin back for WBA, City's next run of fixtures are tough while on paper we should be claiming maximum points until our December showdown with City. Chile hopefully are sensible with him.
All in all I'd say Spurs were a bit unlucky but a draw is fair.
Fair play to AW he got the subs spot on. Flamini gave us bite in midfield, Gibbs gave us pace to trouble them on the wings and for Ozil to spot passes to and Arteta brought calmness when the game started to get frantic near the end,

 

[PINKIE]

I think Spurs dominated periods of the game, but only really because of how poor we were. We didn't press them and we gave the ball away far too easily. That said, there were periods, especially towards the end where we dominated. I think a fully fit Arsenal would have won this game, but as I've said on another thread, given how **** Chelsea are, Spurs could sneak 4th this season.

 

[TheOXOCube:5pur2]

I think Spurs dominated periods of the game, but only really because of how poor we were. We didn't press them and we gave the ball away far too easily. That said, there were periods, especially towards the end where we dominated. I think a fully fit Arsenal would have won this game, but as I've said on another thread, given how **** Chelsea are, Spurs could sneak 4th this season.

Hoping Leicester does it but atm Spurs most likely to sneak it.

 

[Smirnoffpriest]

Did Gary Neville piss anyone else off?

 

[remembercolinlee]

Lol, joint top of the league, and have no chance of the league? We may very well not win the league, most likely won't, but at this point to say we have no chance, just sounds ******ed....And this is coming someone who is a big critic of Arsenal when we under perform, everyone here can vouch that I completely wrote us off 2 months ago, so I'm not just saying this to be biased, but we do clearly have a chance at the moment, we are joint top of the league, won 5 out of our last 6 league games, won every single away game this season except against Chelski when we went down to 9 men. So you're quite clearly talking from your backside when you say we have no chance.

It's funny also how all you dumbass spurs fans want to conveniently ignore the fact that we had so many key players missing, like Ramsey, Walcott, Bellerin, and then back up players in the likes of the OX, Wellbeck etc etc. If we had options today we would have beaten you 100%, you were barely hanging on in the end, if we just had some more firepower on the bench, we would have put you to the sword.

We played monday thursday and today which imo is why we were struggling in the last 15 minutes.

We have had injuries too...just people choose to ignore them...mason and son have just returned this week from being out since before the last international break, bentaleb, chadli and njie are all out injured too. At one point we were without
Mason, son, bentaleb, njie, eriksen, dembele, eriksen, rose and chadli but the press have ignored this.
Arsenal's injuries are an issue at your club and have been for years yet it obviously has not been addressed. To get Ox injured with 3 mins of the Wednesday match looked like the result of a poor warm up...walcott's injury 5 mins later was definitely the case of poor warming and that is unprofessional and the fault of arsenal rather than misfortune
Arsenal also refused to sign any outfield players in the summer... so lack of options are the fault of the club not bad luck.
city have injuries to key players...the difference is they bought players so they can cope with them.
Arsenal have not beaten us in the last 3 prem matches (two at the emerates) and you had full teams then so God knows how you know 100% you would win is a bit strange.
I aint being a smart arse but joint top means same points and goal difference and same goals scored ... you are second in the league.

 

[PINKIE]

I aint being a smart arse but joint top means same points and goal difference and same goals scored ... you are second in the league.

We're only basing that on years of claims from Spurs fans that you were joint placed with a team with better GD

 

[goonerffooky]

Did Gary Neville piss anyone else off?

Very much so. He seemed almost at Tony Gale levels of bitterness.

 

[Arsenal87]

We played monday thursday and today which imo is why we were struggling in the last 15 minutes.

We have had injuries too...just people choose to ignore them...mason and son have just returned this week from being out since before the last international break, bentaleb, chadli and njie are all out injured too. At one point we were without
Mason, son, bentaleb, njie, eriksen, dembele, eriksen, rose and chadli but the press have ignored this.
Arsenal's injuries are an issue at your club and have been for years yet it obviously has not been addressed. To get Ox injured with 3 mins of the Wednesday match looked like the result of a poor warm up...walcott's injury 5 mins later was definitely the case of poor warming and that is unprofessional and the fault of arsenal rather than misfortune
Arsenal also refused to sign any outfield players in the summer... so lack of options are the fault of the club not bad luck.
city have injuries to key players...the difference is they bought players so they can cope with them.
Arsenal have not beaten us in the last 3 prem matches (two at the emerates) and you had full teams then so God knows how you know 100% you would win is a bit strange.
I aint being a smart arse but joint top means same points and goal difference and same goals scored ... you are second in the league.

Second on equal points tells me we have a chance of winning the league.

 

["Thanks for that Brian"]

Not that it matters particularly but...

"Tottenham played better and dominated the game today. They had more desire for the majority of the game." - Thierry Henry

Is that not worth considering? After all he knows a thing or two? No? I'll get my coat.



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[remembercolinlee]

Second on equal points tells me we have a chance of winning the league.

Never claimed otherwise...was responding to your post

 

[BrunelGooner]

No if Kane was on the end it would be at the other end He plays for Spurs BTW.

Yes, well done, he does play for you. Nice of you to realise that.

I was actually pointing out the difference between the two strikers that between both our sides, but it clearly went over your head

 

[Spurf]

Yes, well done, he does play for you. Nice of you to realise that.

I was actually pointing out the difference between the two strikers that between both our sides, but it clearly went over your head

As did my joke.