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<3 6ix9ine Is Dreamy said:
it was inevitable

I don’t know why I even bothered hoping
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I've watched quite a few of the recent Arsenal matches. They have been completely outplayed by Wolves, Liverpool, Man City, Liverpool again and West Ham and won each match. They have got to run out of luck eventually. West Ham missed three clear chances, had two decent penalty shouts and hit the bar. Arsenal scored from their only two good moves and had only one other shot on target.
The commentary of course attributes this to the quality of finding a way to win when playing poorly.
 
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Years before I watched my first Spurs game at age 12,I use to hear grown men going on about "lucky Arsenal!" I had no idea what an Arsenal was. Hasn't gone away,has it,after all these years!!!!?
 
The Changing Man said:
He wants to learn the laws of the game - both decisions were absolutely correct but once again we have co-commentator who cannot be impartial and as such loses perspective when decisions don't go their way.

Zaha was excellent today
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Was that penalty Liverpool got against you in the CL final perfectly correct?
 
vimhawk said:
Do you think that every decision is 100% yes or no? They're almost all shades of grey. The officials unfortunately always provide a degree of subjectivity. The question is onto what side do they err? But I'm arguing that decisions in favour of a team build up momentum and start to impact on the grey decisions, so they move in favour of certain teams. This is not about whether today's decisions were right or wrong, just how they affect subsequent ones.
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Decisions always favour the team in red <whistle>
 
PowerSpurs said:
I've watched quite a few of the recent Arsenal matches. They have been completely outplayed by Wolves, Liverpool, Man City, Liverpool again and West Ham and won each match. They have got to run out of luck eventually. West Ham missed three clear chances, had two decent penalty shouts and hit the bar. Arsenal scored from their only two good moves and had only one other shot on target.
The commentary of course attributes this to the quality of finding a way to win when playing poorly.
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Sorry, but this is a very warped way of viewing things. It's not down to 'luck' that we won those games, it was because of efficiency in front of goal, taking our chances and the opposition either not being good enough to take their chances or because we were dogged enough in defence to snuff them out.

I do agree that it will be unsustainable to play like how we did tonight for the remaining 36 games because we're giving away possession too cheaply and gifting the opposition clear-cut chances. But the games you mention, like Liverpool (in both games), Wolves and Man City, each of these sides were (for the most part) unable to break us down. They may have had one or two opportunities where they felt they should have scored, but every team feels like that. It's purely hypothetical. Today was poor, but overall, Arteta has solidified our defence. That is indisputable.

We wouldn't have won any of these games 6 or 7 months earlier.

At the end of the day, if teams don't score, and we do, then that's not really our problem. Take your chances or suffer the consequences.
 
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BrunelGunner said:
Sorry, but this is a very warped way of viewing things. It's not down to 'luck' that we won those games
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So Chelsea's red card against you was correct then, was it? No ****ing way. It wasn't even a foul.
Add the exceptionally dodgy handball by your goalkeeper and I think luck was a major part of that result.
 
Diego said:
Do Spurs ever get dodgy decisions in their favour?
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Yes. I think that our second goal against Plovdiv was offside, for example.

I actually agree with you about the Palace penalty earlier, too. Not for me:
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Must be the red stripe down their kit... <whistle>
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
Yes. I think that our second goal against Plovdiv was offside, for example.

I actually agree with you about the Palace penalty earlier, too. Not for me:
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Must be the red stripe down their kit... <whistle>
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I actually have no problem with the handball, soft in the past but they change the rule every season so if it fits the criteria then fine.
I don't really have a problem with the re-take if VAR shows de Gea has left the line before the kick (again soft but thems the rules).
What i do have a problem with is Palace being able to change the kicker because his confidence had been hit, we couldn't change the keeper.
 
Diego said:
I actually have no problem with the handball, soft in the past but they change the rule every season so if it fits the criteria then fine.
I don't really have a problem with the re-take if VAR shows de Gea has left the line before the kick (again soft but thems the rules).
What i do have a problem with is Palace being able to change the kicker because his confidence had been hit, we couldn't change the keeper.
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You could change the keeper, though. Sub him off after the retake is announced.
 
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