Arsenal v Spurs LIVE

Henry, Adams, Pires, Lehmann and Campbell all at the Emirates.

KO 12.45

Wenger: "We have taken risks today with a lot of players. Sagna was a big doubt, but plays."

Come ON You Gunnerssss

I'd rather face Lloris than Friedel , Friedel against Manu was like Super Friedel

COYG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad Giroud didn't get dropped, hope he justifies his selection.

BFG, take a fecking

1st goal for Arsenal, and what a game changer it can be.

Germans carrying The Cannon.

Arsenal fans must be thinking

" no matter how bad we are, there's always Tottenham hotspur"

Its amazing the difference Walcott makes to the team. Now we're sending crosses into the box instead of playing tippy-tappy shit.

If only our left side was as strong as our right side

Still a long way to go.

The Arsenal way

5-2, two years in a row? LMAO 5PUR2


My prediction was one goal off

Good to see.

Difficult to read too much after Adebarndoor's red. Which was deserved. What a total dickhead he is.

Thought Cazorla was excellent. Big plus was the fact that we AT LAST are mixing our play up. We did against Fulham but it went pear shaped, but I did say I was happy after the game. As we mixed our game up a little.

By mix it up I mean we did our usual play through the middle short passing game, but we also looked to get the ball out wide and get crosses in. That is what me must continue to try and do.

Ratings:

Szczesney: 6
Sagna: 6
Merty: 6
Koscielny: 7
Vermaelen: 6
Arteta: 7
Wilshere: 7
Walcott: 7
Podolski: 7
Cazorla: 8
Giroud: 7

Subs:
Ox: 7
Santos: N/A
Ramsey: 6

Have a beer on me lads!

Wouldn't read much into this result tbh

More telling when it was 11 vs 11, and we all saw how that went.

Great moral boosting victory, need to start a decent run from now on.
Will write up my thoughts in the review thread, make this count Jay.

Arsenal as a unit still need to improve when the opposition is hurtling towards them, because they seem to lose their heads and leave huge gaps for the opposition's dangerous players to exploit.

CBarca wrote:Wouldn't read much into this result tbh

More telling when it was 11 vs 11, and we all saw how that went.

Like I care .

CBarca wrote:Wouldn't read much into this result tbh

More telling when it was 11 vs 11, and we all saw how that went.

The beauty of winning 5-2, no matter the circumstance, is the morale it gives a team. Also, 3 points.

Agreed, the result is misleading, but we need to look at the positives.

Defending will improve once Gibbs comes back and Jenko gets more involved.

CBarca wrote:Wouldn't read much into this result tbh

More telling when it was 11 vs 11, and we all saw how that went.

yes, exactly the same way it went last year when we beat them by the exact same scoreline 11 vs 11

Morale or not the performance itself is worrying.

I'll stay out of this section though, people in the chat may know how upset I am and I tend to troll way too much when I'm upset.

Good game? I guess? Not really, but you guys got 3 points, so I guess you can be happy about that.

DAT cruyff turn

http://s1.directupload.net/images/121117/y7g89gnm.swf

Tottenham's main advantage was midfield strength at the beginning of the game, and mixed with Defoe's pestering of Arteta, that's why we struggled. If Spurs had 11 men the whole game, it would have been different, but hey if we someone like Song still here or Diaby not injured it would have been 5-2 no matter what

All that really matters is that, with everything that happened, we came out on top. We needed a win and we got it. Spurs can argue what-ifs, and rightfully so, but it's also their fault for not hunkering down and protecting their lead and just thinking they could keep playing the same way as they did with 11 despite being a man down.

The confidence of getting the job done is far more important than how poor we were for a few minutes at the beginning of a game