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In which we ponder how a NLD in which Arsenal scored precisely the goals one expects them to score in precisely the way one expected them to score them nevertheless ended up part of one of the most hard-to-explain games of the season. Arsenal had to do very little to find themselves 3-0 up, and Spurs had to do very little to find themselves right back in it.
They lost all semblance of that control in the second half as Spurs gave them an almighty scare. But here’s why that’s good news for Arsenal: because they needed two things from Spurs. The first was three points, which they now have. The second, and almost as importantly, is for Spurs to now take something off Manchester City in a few weeks’ time. Because looking at their remaining games, it’s hard now to see who else might.
We must ask how, precisely, it has taken Ange Postecoglou and his backroom team until a presumably frenzied half-time chat today to even consider what might happen if someone was tasked with blocking the blocker as Pape Sarr did to at least some effect in the second half. There really isn’t any great reinvention of the wheel going on here – have a couple of lads who consistently deliver inch-perfect inswinging deliveries from each flank at pace, some big lads to head them in and some other lads trying to put off the defence – but few teams if any have ever so perfected this particular tactic.
The expectations of Arsenal have changed massively now. During last season’s title race the vibe was very much ‘Well if Arsenal don’t win it this year, when will the chance come around again?’ This year it’s ‘Well if Arsenal don’t win it this year they probably will next year.
. Across the 90 minutes as a whole, that probably proved the case. But there was always one major problem with it. What if he got isolated against Saka with Van de Ven out of range to offer jet-heeled assistance? It would likely be very ugly indeed. It only happened the once, and it only needed to happen the once.
Davies for Udogie was obviously an enforced change, but everywhere else Postecoglou had a decision to make in his starting XI he uncharacteristically went for the pragmatic option. Dejan Kulusevski over Brennan Johnson was one. Hojbjerg over Pape Sarr was the really big one, Yves Bissouma having in fairness made himself largely unpickable in the Newcastle game.
But the other very big question Spurs have to answer in the summer revolves around Son Heung-min. He took his penalty nervelessly to set up the very nervy conclusion, but it was his only contribution of note after what has now been an extremely lengthy run of indifferent form to go with the extremely lengthy run of indifferent form he had last season.
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