Arsenal 1 Tottenham 1
Kane 32, Gibbs 77
Putting Gibbs on was the only thing Wenger got right on Sunday.
With Aston Villa holding Manchester City to a 0-0 draw, Arsenal had a chance to go two points clear.
But the squad isn’t up to it.
This squad doesn’t have the guts to win the league.
And it doesn’t have the depth or organisation to win the league, or the competitive culture to win the league.
Who said this : There are some dreams we must follow and others we must wake up from.
Lucky Arsenal grabbed a late equaliser in a derby that Spurs dominated for 70 minutes.
Olivier Giroud, a big girl with a beard, is temperamentally unsound. He missed two easy headers and got into series of silly spats with Vertonghen.
In a lifetime of watching English football, I’ve never seen such pathetic argy-bargy. They looked like a pair of WAGs squabbling about who had the nicest handbag: “Shut your face! My Hermes is far better than your Chanel!”
Harry Kane wasn’t fit and warmed up in tracksuit bottoms so Arsenal wouldn’t see the heavy strapping on his right leg.
But when Danny Rose played a ball forward from left back, Koscielny made it easy for Kane by stepping up to give him a free run at Cech, and happy Harry slotted the one-on-one almost as sweetly as Neymar would have done.
Like Giroud, Kane misses chances. But he’s far younger and doing OK in his second season. And he’s an automatic first team starter, which Giroud isn’t.
Tactically, Pochettino was superior and he was gutted not to win.
Mesut Ozil got Wenger out of jail with a perfect ball to the far post and Hugo Lloris, terrified of his steel post and Gibbs’s boot, was already falling into his goal when the shot crossed the line
A few weeks ago Gary Neville called Wenger naïve or arrogant. He is both.
But nobody sells the future as well as him He’s been selling the future every week since 2004, while stagnating in the top four to satisfy the owners.
As Cazorla and Coquelin were swamped in centre midfield, co-commentator Gary Neville was explaining why they had been firefighting all day long.
In 54, Giroud headed an Ozil free-kick against the bar but at that stage Spurs were 7-2 up on goal attempts.
When Petr Cech ventured outside his box and dithered in a carnival of miscommunication with Mertesacker, the spiky Lamela pinched the ball off the keeper, another farsenal moment for your scrapbook.