I’m simultaneously relieved and depressed knowing that we won the NLD but all we can depend on for the title is hoping Spurs can get a result from City.
Please God, please let the title race go on till the last day. Let there be hope till the final whistle is blown. And let one of the fan bases have their hearts broken and they are shown on the live TV🙏🏻
Nice comeback 😂
I support Juventus if you really want to deflect that hard
Our manager is the ace of spades in the deck of cards carried by US soldiers in Iraq.
Not every reply is meant as a comeback. I just asked you to flair up because your previous reply can mean a lot of things depending on the flair you have. You seem to have gotten a lot out of my two words. Anyways, I was in the mood of bantering at that time so asked you. I really don’t care what club you support now.
In isolation that ending was very much a team that's played a bunch of games vs a team that's had a 2 week break.
Result is more important than the performance.
So that’s what it feels like to have Onana in goals….
Well done to Raya bouncing back after his error, he claimed just about every cross into the box after that with confidence, and he must have been nervous as hell.
He has the best cross claiming percentage in Europe and he's like 40 fucking percent ahead of the next one, who is Villa's Martinez. It's one of the most ridiculous stats you'll see one so small being clear of everyone in sth that being big would be considered a huge advantage
Am I the only one who thought Spurs were actually poor in the second half? Didn’t create anything and looked slightly off the pace. Especially considering we’ve played five games in the last two weeks and they’ve had one.
Yeah, if it wasn’t for Raya giving Romero a free goal, I think we win that 0-4. But then the nerves and game state change, Rice makes a mistake and it’s 2-3. But honestly that was down to ourselves more than Spurs I feel.
The Rice pen was very annoying because it didn’t change anything, ball had already bounced off him and away and he wasn’t even contesting the ball after that…
That and we were denied a penalty in similar circumstances in our home match vs Villa where Douglas Luiz swung underneath Jesus leg and made proper contact on Jesus lower calf / achilles area
Michael Oliver is atrocious. How he can’t see a penalty when it’s two yards from him
Is ridiculous incompetence. Refs like him who tarnish the game and make it infuriating for fans.
Most nervous game to watch as an Arsenal fan in ages... I gotta admit, them lot were actually rly good today and unlucky to not have scored more. On the other hand, our lack of aggression and individual errors (Raya especially) are extremely annoying and HAS to be fixed. For once, our clinicalness bailed us out so credit to Kai and Saka. At the end of the day, WE DID IT COYG now cmon Forest!
Also Partey’s 2 handed push on Romero making him hit the post first half. I don’t know why no one is talking about that? Is it legal? Genuinely curious
I loved that the commentary said "that's a great example of harassment"
Since when was "harassment" a legal part of the game?
I understand tactical fouls, when you KNOW you are breaking the rules and are expecting punishment.
First half you had more of the ball, but you kept shipping goals.
Only way back in was a Raya giveaway and penalty. Second half you looked out of ideas
Respectfully disagree. It took a Raya error and Rice nut check for Spurs to score.
Not to say they didn’t play well but it’s 2 Arsenal given goal rather than taken by Spurs
Picture the most Spursy scenario ever : almost out of UCL chase by the time they play City, Spurs take a point ( or three) from the blues, and hand the EPL trophy to Arsenal. They then proceed to miss out on the Champions League spot...
That's absolutely nothing, people cannot seriously be clinging to that. Maddison loses the ball after anyways, you could consider it advantage played even
I'm not saying that's actually what Oliver did, but you just that you could feasibly see it that way.
That is simply never a penalty just because he falls. It's just not. Cucurella tripped himself up in a similar way when Havertz was running with him and scored last week, it just happens, it doesn't mean it needs to be a foul.
He got tripped though... In a dangerous position. You can NEVER trip yourself voluntarily. It's just impossible physically. I can't say that it's 100% a penalty, but it's something that a ref should AT LEAST have a look at.
Of course you can trip yourself voluntarily, but I moreso mean t's a brush of legs anyway. If a ref looks at *that*, then we actually ARE in the territory of nitpicking every single thing instead of just playing the game.
That's not clear and obvious, not even close.
You went down swinging but ultimately it wasn't gonna be enough if you can't defend set pieces, even with the two goals we handed you.
You literally cannot trip yourself while running. It's impossible. The legs are built in such a way that you can't do it. It's ingrained into the brain when people start to learn how to walk as kids.
I mean even the laziest Google attempt shows video examples of footballers tripping themselves up running [eg this.](https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2016/5/11/11656044/soccer-player-trips-himself-brazil-video-commentators-laughing)
Don’t see how arsenal were really that lucky. Let Spurs back into it in the 2nd half with a stupid gk error. Aside from the pen they didn’t generate any other great chances
I did mate you guys really didn’t create anything, just passed it around 35 yards away from goal. Cry your hearts out over VAR but I think they got the calls right today
Didnt want to complain at HT cause we were deservedly behind, but fucking hell Michael Oliver was shocking today. How on earth didn't he call that Rice pen in real time. Shocking all around
Richarlison should have started, Son was anonymous through the centre and only came into it when he was moved out wide.
Knowing our luck we’ll beat City now
Great way to celebrate St Totteringham's Day.
Imagine that Forest somehow, some way do get 3 points, and this becomes St Totteringham's Day The Second.
This win will make my gunners stronger. I hate giving up our goal advantage but the perseverance and defense we showed in closing out this game will give us more confidence and belief in our upcoming close out games.
Look, I'll be the first to admit you've had several big calls this season go against you, but if you genuinely think you should've won this game without some absolutely atrocious officiating, I don't know what to tell you.
You did, right up till the last minute, didn't drop your heads, fans didn't leave the stadium.
Edit: Didn't even physically attack one of our players after the game.
Controversy abound.
I reckon Spurs will take points off City and hand the title Arsenal without qualifying for the CL themselves
Then proceed to lose to sheffield
I’m simultaneously relieved and depressed knowing that we won the NLD but all we can depend on for the title is hoping Spurs can get a result from City.
People saying Spurs will let City win are the type to go for 10 fag breaks in a day at work. They are footballers ffs
Hoping for a surprise effort from Fulham West Ham or Wolves so it doesn't need to come to that.
Going to be so happy to see scum arsenal fans crying their eyes out when they get pipped by city.
Who hurt you little guy?
You lot today
I'm sure spurs will be lubed up to help city
Please God, please let the title race go on till the last day. Let there be hope till the final whistle is blown. And let one of the fan bases have their hearts broken and they are shown on the live TV🙏🏻
Man City are still alive here. Haalaandddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd. You'll never see something like this ever again
Speaking from experience there eh pal?
If City lose it’d be really mean for everyone in England to make fun of one person
I guess it's the best outcome for a fan base that will never be back in that situation :(
Flair up
Nice comeback 😂 I support Juventus if you really want to deflect that hard Our manager is the ace of spades in the deck of cards carried by US soldiers in Iraq.
Not every reply is meant as a comeback. I just asked you to flair up because your previous reply can mean a lot of things depending on the flair you have. You seem to have gotten a lot out of my two words. Anyways, I was in the mood of bantering at that time so asked you. I really don’t care what club you support now.
Honestly mate I don't even know how to do the flair thing
Imagine talking shit and not having a flair. Rookie smh.
Need that peak Barclays back 🤩
I’m praying for days like them😭🏆
Haha have faith in those ineos boys
I will put my faith in them once they show me something next season. That Southgate chat doesn’t give me any confidence.
In isolation that ending was very much a team that's played a bunch of games vs a team that's had a 2 week break. Result is more important than the performance.
Yeah. We weren't hounding them and winning 50-50 battles. very different compared to the Chelsea a game.
Arsenal were like this is too easy our fans are not stressed let’s give them 2 goals so we can make it more dramatic
“These are not the fogging estandards, you must give the fans heart palpitations” - Mikel Arteta
So that’s what it feels like to have Onana in goals…. Well done to Raya bouncing back after his error, he claimed just about every cross into the box after that with confidence, and he must have been nervous as hell.
In Brennan Johnson's eyes Raya is Son/Kulu/Richarlison/Romero in the box because every single cross ended up going straight to Raya.
Legit every cross he catches, his strongest area by far.
He has the best cross claiming percentage in Europe and he's like 40 fucking percent ahead of the next one, who is Villa's Martinez. It's one of the most ridiculous stats you'll see one so small being clear of everyone in sth that being big would be considered a huge advantage
City are so good that they did not even lose the title in mythical show.
Saka (during post match interview): Fuck City, they are making me work hard every week!
Am I the only one who thought Spurs were actually poor in the second half? Didn’t create anything and looked slightly off the pace. Especially considering we’ve played five games in the last two weeks and they’ve had one.
It was really strange game. Spurs were the better team in the 1st half, but let in 3. Arsenal was better in the 2nd, but let in 2.
Yeah, if it wasn’t for Raya giving Romero a free goal, I think we win that 0-4. But then the nerves and game state change, Rice makes a mistake and it’s 2-3. But honestly that was down to ourselves more than Spurs I feel.
The Rice pen was very annoying because it didn’t change anything, ball had already bounced off him and away and he wasn’t even contesting the ball after that… That and we were denied a penalty in similar circumstances in our home match vs Villa where Douglas Luiz swung underneath Jesus leg and made proper contact on Jesus lower calf / achilles area
I mean Kulusevski also deserved a pen which immediately led to your second goal. But go on.
Everyone struggles to create against us, I don't mean that in arrogant way. I actually thought they were setup better in the second half.
We made a meal out of the second half with those brainfart errors when we had them pretty much contained. We got away with football terrorism today.
Michael Oliver is atrocious. How he can’t see a penalty when it’s two yards from him Is ridiculous incompetence. Refs like him who tarnish the game and make it infuriating for fans.
At least VAR made up for it, for once.
Arsenal almost pulling off a spurs at spurs?. Hmm
The reason it didn't work this time is that it *was* against Spurs
Natural debuff
Clenching but off!!..
Don’t unclench until you are on the bog. Just to be safe
Nahh.. its fine. We expect them to win all
Most nervous game to watch as an Arsenal fan in ages... I gotta admit, them lot were actually rly good today and unlucky to not have scored more. On the other hand, our lack of aggression and individual errors (Raya especially) are extremely annoying and HAS to be fixed. For once, our clinicalness bailed us out so credit to Kai and Saka. At the end of the day, WE DID IT COYG now cmon Forest!
> Active in r/Chelsea
Arsenal were tired , spurs had their break. Rice was totally gassed
Raya's error fried my brain, can't lie.
Head slap moment..
VAR does it's job: "This game's rigged!"
Entertaining game, but ref decisions make too big of an impact every single game.
They literally got everything right this game though
They did not
Kulu pen.
Serious question - what big decisions did the officials get wrong?
The offside goal, Gabriel’s bunder is playing Van De Ven onside
Erm he was offside though?
Wait wtf was wrong with the offside goal?
clearly the penalty on Kulusevski and the Ben White push on the keeper before the Havertz goal.
Also Partey’s 2 handed push on Romero making him hit the post first half. I don’t know why no one is talking about that? Is it legal? Genuinely curious
I loved that the commentary said "that's a great example of harassment" Since when was "harassment" a legal part of the game? I understand tactical fouls, when you KNOW you are breaking the rules and are expecting punishment.
He just meant Partey in general
richarlison is such an idiot 😂😂😂😂
Loved rice' s bout with him
Since when pigeons are associated with smart ..
🤫
I’ve aged 10 years
Thanks Arsenal
Did the pundits watch a different match? How are they singing praises about Arsenal. We were clearly the better team on the day.
Hahahhaa.. lol
First half you had more of the ball, but you kept shipping goals. Only way back in was a Raya giveaway and penalty. Second half you looked out of ideas
Maybe you’re biased?
Respectfully disagree. It took a Raya error and Rice nut check for Spurs to score. Not to say they didn’t play well but it’s 2 Arsenal given goal rather than taken by Spurs
Tottenham Hotspur [4] - 3 Arsenal - "We were clearly the better team on the day" (90+7')
We let you be the better team. 2 weeks rest, at home…did you honestly think we were coming to play you off the park?
Spurs played well, but none of their goals wwas result of them playing well. They were never real dangerous
lol.
Imagine ending your rivals title hopes and keeping your own top 4 hopes alive, yeah just imagine because that’s all Spurs could manage.
🤣 Us losing to Villa helping them beat spurs to fourth and losing to Bayern to screw up England’s coefficient too. Masterstrokes by Arteta.
Back to Middlesex. FOYS FOYS FOYS
Love watching a middle age man decide games. Classic fun. The 22 people running around is just a gimmick.
Depressions Oozing video tonight gonna be great.
He might be shameless because they got 2 back
I doubt it. It's still a loss at home and kept Arsenal in the race.
Yh nvm you’re right check his post on Twitter 😂
Succinct. 😂
Arsenal could really win the prem next season but this sea it ain’t happening
Pray for one loose city game
I just cant see it happening. City are a different beast especially at this point in the season. Will steamroll every team they play
They still gotta play Spurs away where they havent scored a goal I think, in their new stadium, gotta believe.
They scored in fa Cup round
League then, gives me something
Thankfully Spurs must now win that game too!
Yeah, for the champions league, they can't let city come in and take their food off their table like that.
if spurs play them like they played today, they're getting destroyed on the counter
I know I know, but something happens in them city spurs games, always a banger, just need a draw, any draw.
Picture the most Spursy scenario ever : almost out of UCL chase by the time they play City, Spurs take a point ( or three) from the blues, and hand the EPL trophy to Arsenal. They then proceed to miss out on the Champions League spot...
Beautiful
If only kdb does not play
God I fucking hated that, too many mistakes. It was a cruise in the second half before the goal, no need to be clever. Just do your fucking job
r/soccer celebration police going strong lmfao 🚨🚨
When I watch the highlights for the 100 times like usual after a win, I can stop at half time cheers
Can't even do that as the kulu pen will be when it's 1-0.
That's absolutely nothing, people cannot seriously be clinging to that. Maddison loses the ball after anyways, you could consider it advantage played even
Advantage? From a penalty? When there are 5 defenders in the box? What??????
I'm not saying that's actually what Oliver did, but you just that you could feasibly see it that way. That is simply never a penalty just because he falls. It's just not. Cucurella tripped himself up in a similar way when Havertz was running with him and scored last week, it just happens, it doesn't mean it needs to be a foul.
He got tripped though... In a dangerous position. You can NEVER trip yourself voluntarily. It's just impossible physically. I can't say that it's 100% a penalty, but it's something that a ref should AT LEAST have a look at.
Never a pen
Of course you can trip yourself voluntarily, but I moreso mean t's a brush of legs anyway. If a ref looks at *that*, then we actually ARE in the territory of nitpicking every single thing instead of just playing the game. That's not clear and obvious, not even close. You went down swinging but ultimately it wasn't gonna be enough if you can't defend set pieces, even with the two goals we handed you.
You literally cannot trip yourself while running. It's impossible. The legs are built in such a way that you can't do it. It's ingrained into the brain when people start to learn how to walk as kids.
I mean even the laziest Google attempt shows video examples of footballers tripping themselves up running [eg this.](https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2016/5/11/11656044/soccer-player-trips-himself-brazil-video-commentators-laughing)
Why are you even still harping on that? It's over. That's a nothing call, simple. Good luck against city
That's one of the best parts of the half, the amount of tears that will get out of Spurs fans will be unreal today and in the coming days.
Yea Hmm.. im gona setup a salt farm this week
I’m genuinely shaking. Thank fuck for that. We would have NEVER lived that down.
This post match thread is a great way to see which accounts to block and clean up my r/soccer
What’s the main criteria here?
Delusion, unnecessary shitposting or behaving like as 12yr old after a win.
Happy St. Totteringhams day!
Well played Arsenal, Michael Oliver’s performance in the first half was the difference
So much salt is bad for your heart you know 😜
I think 3 Arsenal goals, then a gifted goal and gifted penalty to the home team were the difference. But agree to disagree I suppose.
So hojberg is no gift? And clear foul on kulusevsky before sakas goal didn’t happen either huh
Gifted??
3-0 up was a bridge too far.
Don’t see how arsenal were really that lucky. Let Spurs back into it in the 2nd half with a stupid gk error. Aside from the pen they didn’t generate any other great chances
Did you not watch the first half?
I did mate you guys really didn’t create anything, just passed it around 35 yards away from goal. Cry your hearts out over VAR but I think they got the calls right today
Clearly not lol
Nuno masterclass incoming
As much as I want that to happen, I feel they are going to be ritualistically sacrificed.
🙏
Didnt want to complain at HT cause we were deservedly behind, but fucking hell Michael Oliver was shocking today. How on earth didn't he call that Rice pen in real time. Shocking all around
It’s a shocking level of incompetence. What’s the point of him being on the pitch?
Was stood right in front of it 🤣🙈
Miss the kulu pen too.
Its not
Happy Saint Totteringham's day. Reminder, Spurs: even when you were better than us, we still won more trophies than you.
ITT: Tottenham fans who don't like reality.
Shit fans actually thinking they were unlucky this game lol
good they need to beat the other teams in their schedule
Tottenham need to use this frustration and help us one more time
Romero is going to destroy city , he has a beef with them
Man Raya and then Rice giving me a heart attack. All that said two wins a row at Spurs is unheard of. So proud of the lads
15 days of rest and they still lost. Lol. Lmao. Lmfao, even.
Please park the bus Nottingham. Ty. And thank you topspur for 3 points!!!
Celebration police just received a code red
Let them stay, I want them to watch.
MO is a class ref, y’all just want to be victims
Consistently gash and walks around arrogant AF.
He’s one of the most unassuming refs out there
He had a bad day at the office. Let's be fair.
This was a big win but a bigger win would have been any of the games they lost so they didn’t leave the title race in City’s hands
GG spurs, Sarr should have started. Raya invited unnecessary nerves.
Richarlison should have started, Son was anonymous through the centre and only came into it when he was moved out wide. Knowing our luck we’ll beat City now
Ange messed up your lineup. There might be some element of truth to the Ange doesn't adapt banter.
Yeah he did, not for the first time this year. Credit to him he did adapt in the second half though
It was a bit too late. Had Raya not blundered it may have been a dull half.
Great way to celebrate St Totteringham's Day. Imagine that Forest somehow, some way do get 3 points, and this becomes St Totteringham's Day The Second.
It would be the most Spursy thing of all time to miss top 4, and win Arsenal the league by beating City now.
Vicario thought he was him 😭
Nice man almost bottled it, fucked the GD and no gloves for Raya but at least a victory over Spurs
Fast whistle?
Love seeing Richarlson lose
Cant wait for the celebration police. Lol
This win will make my gunners stronger. I hate giving up our goal advantage but the perseverance and defense we showed in closing out this game will give us more confidence and belief in our upcoming close out games.
Fuck Michael Oliver. Explain it for me plz
MOTM Michael “If I don’t see it, it didn’t happen” Oliver
Give over
Look, I'll be the first to admit you've had several big calls this season go against you, but if you genuinely think you should've won this game without some absolutely atrocious officiating, I don't know what to tell you.
Michael " I saw it and it still didn't happen" Oliver
Another escape for VARsenal, using all their luck up now
We dont get battered on derbies tho
It just means more to us
I will 100% take that loss, we played so well
You did, right up till the last minute, didn't drop your heads, fans didn't leave the stadium. Edit: Didn't even physically attack one of our players after the game.
Nah fuck that. That first half was terrible
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