Arsenal 2 - 3 Tottenham ; Gunners blew chance to go top
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Samir Nasri opens the scoring watch his goal here @ http://eplmatchestalk.blogspot.com/2010/11/arsenal-vs-tottenham-highlights.html
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Marouane Chamakh (27) goal!!!!!!!!!! watch @ http://eplmatchestalk.blogspot.com/2010/11/arsenal-vs-tottenham-highlights.html
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arsenal looks solid this season. Nasri is maturing into his full potential, fab is still great and there are players like sagna and clichy getting better and better. And there's chamakh too. Wah lau eh.
If only man u had magical players like fab and nasri. Week in week out still need to rely on scholes and the undependable and invisible michael carrick.
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Originally posted by Rock^Star:
arsenal looks solid this season. Nasri is maturing into his full potential, fab is still great and there are players like sagna and clichy getting better and better. And there's chamakh too. Wah lau eh.
If only man u had magical players like fab and nasri. Week in week out still need to rely on scholes and the undependable and invisible michael carrick.
hopefully they can maintain that come x'mas. -
LOL! I just said they are solid and now they gave away 2 goals.
Nothing is guaranteed in the EPL these days. It was just a few years back where the top four would take leads and that's it. Not now anymore.
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offside goal by squillaci!
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Gareth Bale Score a fantastic goal watch @ http://eplmatchestalk.blogspot.com/2010/11/arsenal-vs-tottenham-highlights.html
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Rvp, rosicky,walcott all come in
Lolx.....
and yeah defoe coming back
10 mins to go
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i think wenger going to kee siao v soon on evidence of his frustration at the rosicky foul.
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kaboul scores!
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and that was a very very wicked free kick from vdv.
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sianz dia0 ..
spurs att furiously
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i havent seen a winger tear the left flank apart like how bale does it to opponents these days.....amazing.
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one of the greatest EPL london derbies ever.
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Almost 20 years of history comes to an end... Spurs finally win at gunners home ground...
And Gallas was just great... Had it not been for him, Spurs would have lost in the first half...
Anyway, a great match to watch...
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Rafael Van der Vaart (67') pen conceded by Song @ http://eplmatchestalk.blogspot.com/2010/11/arsenal-vs-tottenham-highlights.html
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You bottled it: Boss Wenger furious as Arsenal lose at home to rivals Spurs for the first time in 17 years
You bottled it: Wenger furious as Arsenal lose first home game to Spurs in 17 years
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger lost his cool at the Emirates yesterday and practically accused his players of lacking the 'bottle' to establish themselves as Premier League frontrunners.
Younes Kaboul's late winner for Tottenham in the north London derby left Wenger lashing out in anger at a wasted opportunity to send a positive message to his title rivals.
White heart: Spurs celebrate Younes Kaboul's late winner
On his knees: Arsene Wenger suffered on an agonising afternoon for Arsenal
A second successive home defeat - a third in all this season after slipups against Newcastle and West Bromwich - left Arsenal fans furious, particularly since it was the first time in 17 years that they had lost at home to their biggest rivals.
And a seething Wenger said: 'Three home defeats are three too many. What is worrying for me is that we had an opportunity to go top of the league, and when we have to deliver, we can't. That's worrying because that's part of our job.
'We put ourselves in the right position and failed - we have to accept that. It is more a mental than a football thing. We were in a position to win the game and we didn't win it and, of course, that is difficult to swallow. We couldn't maintain the focus or the urgency for 90 minutes.
'I put that down to bad luck, fatigue after the midweek international games, some basic errors and a lack of cautiousness.'
Samir Nasri had opened the scoring, having refused to shake the hand of Spurs captain and fellow Frenchman William Gallas, the ex-Gunner, before kick-off due to past differences.
Marouane Chamakh doubled Arsenal's lead but Gareth Bale cut the deficit.
'It is difficult to accept when you are 2-0 up and you have a freekick but you are caught on the counter- attack,' added Wenger, who also claimed he did not see the Cesc Fabregas hand-ball that led to Rafael van der Vaart's penalty equaliser.
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Arsenal 2 Tottenham 3: Shaky Gunners are stunned as Van der Vaart inspires fightback
Delight: Samir Nasri celebrates after scoring Arsenal's opening goal
To win from two goals down requires character and belief. But to win after being casually outplayed and embarrassingly outclassed demands qualities which Tottenham may not have known they possessed.
For 45 minutes, Arsenal had played like the team they have always threatened to become. Cesc Fabregas was assembling one of those inch-perfect, jaw-dropping displays which lifts him high above the Premier League herd. Pulling all the strings and stroking all the damaging passes, he was ablaze with inspiration, seemingly incapable of error. And all around him, his lieutenants played their parts with thrilling verve and chilling precision.
When Arsenal are in this mood, nothing in England comes remotely close to them. Certainly Spurs were incapable of offering them a tackle, much less a spirited argument.
They took the lead in nine minutes, when Samir Nasri chased a Fabregas chip and Heurelho Gomes made a nervous advance at the ball. The attacker persevered, the keeper lost track and Nasri squeezed the chance through one of those angles which an ordinary player might consider impossible.
Dutch of class: Rafael van der Vaart celebrates after scoring from the penalty spot
The half ended with something remarkable. Fabregas caressed a 15-yard pass with the outside of his foot into space which nobody else knew existed. It was so fine, so subtle that poor Chamakh did not see it until it was upon him. It symbolised the quality of Arsenal’s football, and it was also the last time they had reason to feel good about themselves.
Redknapp worked on his forces at the interval. He restricted the productivity of Fabregas and he coaxed his team to fiercer effort. And the wonders unfolded.
The vital early goal came within five minutes, with a long ball from defence touched on by Rafael van der Vaart to Gareth Bale. Frustrated for 45 minutes, Bale retained sufficient composure to strike a careful finish inside the far post with the outside of his left boot.
Done arm: Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas gives way a penalty to block Rafael van der Vaart's free kick
Twenty minutes later, a Van der Vaart free-kick was knocked aside by the raised arm of Fabregas. It was the clearest penalty you ever did see and Tottenham were level as Van der Vaart sent Lukasz Fabianski the wrong way.
Still Arsenal should have retrieved the game, but as Arsene Wenger later conceded: ‘When we have to deliver, we can’t.’ Laurent Koscielny missed a mundane header from a few yards, then Theo Walcott came on, missed a decent chance, and was never seen again. And amid all this chaos, Spurs won it.
Leaving his mark: Younes Kaboul escapes the attentions of five defeanders to head past goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski
Koscielny lunged at Bale and from Van der Vaart’s free-kick, Younes Kaboul procured the deftest of touches to send the ball bobbing into the corner of the net. A team who had not taken the points at Arsenal since 1993 had emerged clutching all three. In the space of 45 minutes, form had flown out of the window and the shape of the championship had been critically reformed.
Wenger was a dignified loser. ‘If you look at the stats, it’s a mystery how we lost the game,’ he said. Then he realised how hollow that sounded, since football is about far more than the simplicities of statistics.
‘We put ourselves in the right position, and we failed,’ he said. ‘That is something which is difficult to swallow, but we have to accept it’.
Redknapp started to revive the speech he made to his players on Friday. How Chelsea and Manchester United are not quite the sides they once were. How Manchester City are ‘OK, but not what we expected them to be’. And how Spurs are getting closer and closer to teams they once feared.
He insisted that he meant every word. ‘I wouldn’t be saying this if I had a bad group of players,’ he said. ‘I’m not silly.’ Silly, he isn’t. Yesterday in north London, he and his team made a powerful case. Somebody’s going to win it. Why not Spurs?
Can't look: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, claimed he did not see the Cesc Fabregas hand-ball that led to Rafael van der Vaart's penalty equaliser
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Redknapp "Gallas was just amazing today"
Redknapp singled out Gallas: "I thought William Gallas was just amazing today"
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i wonder wtf fabregas was doing.. and the guy beside him in the wall.. basically, BOTH of them held up their arms
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Originally posted by the Bear:
i wonder wtf fabregas was doing.. and the guy beside him in the wall.. basically, BOTH of them held up their arms
protect their heavy endorsed face.
