Arsenal won the Premier League North London derby on Sunday, defeating archrivals Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The highlight win keeps our Gunners’ title hopes alive; they’ve now registered 80 points in 35 games, promising an interesting end to the PL title battle.
Having said that, what lessons can we draw from that victory?
Arsenal have now won consecutive league games against Tottenham away from home for the first time in 35 years.
Spurs 0-2 Arsenal
Spurs 2-3 Arsenal
Arsenal are on track to be unbeaten against the Premier League’s big six; all they need now is a win over Manchester United at Old Trafford. The results against the Big Six this season are as follows:
3-1 vs. Man Utd
2-2 vs. Spurs
1-0 vs. Man City
2-2 vs. Chelsea
1-1 vs. Liverpool
3-1 vs. Liverpool
0-0 vs. Man City
5-0 vs. Chelsea
2-3 vs. Spurs
Mikel Arteta has achieved a huge milestone, winning his 100th Premier League game. Notably, he is the fastest Arsenal manager to win 100 league games, making him a unique individual.
Bukayo Saka continued his revival by impressing in the NLD. He scored Arsenal’s second goal of the game, bringing his Premier League goal total to 15 this season, his greatest goal-scoring run in a league season.
Aside from having his finest goal-scoring season, the Hale End graduate made Arsenal history by being the first Englishman since Ian Wright in 1993–94 to score both at home and away against Spurs in the same league season.
Arsenal have performed admirably this season, setting numerous records. Let us know if you can think of any we forgot….
Sam P
Amidst all the records and fanfare that follows, one very important issue I find defeatingly quite is the gaffer contract extension, are the Kroenke’s waiting on a telephone call from God?
To balance up the plus and minus debate Sam P, it would be interesting to see the other side of the coin, in order to see how MA has progressed from his start as our coach / manager.
This would, surely, put him in an even better light?
“Mikel Arteta has achieved a huge milestone, winning his 100th Premier League game. Notably, he is the fastest Arsenal manager to win 100 league games”
This stat shows how brilliantly arteta has actually performed so far, and how much the league has changed. Wenger won the title in his first full season and didn’t reach this milestone so quickly (I think it took 10 more games), and he had bone fide legends in his teams – competition is much harder at the top end now imo. Every loss hits much harder than it used to.
(Not aiming anything at AW here, it’s more a measure of how the league has changed – it might show the “lesser” teams were tougher)
Different eras. And the Premier League much more harder since Abramovich showed up in 2004. Then Sheikh Mansour at Man City. Now you have Newcastle Saudi’s. And on top of that the talent share is much more evenly distributed throughout the league. Even Clubs like Villa, Spurs, Weat Ham, Everton, Brighton etc can now afford £40-50 million players. That was not possible back in the early EPL days.
But not taking away from the great Wenger, he was a revolutionary and a breathe of fresh air when he first showed up. Right place at the right time for most of these top level managers.
Arteta now has to try to emulate Wenger in winning the title and even go a step farther by winning the CL if he wants to be spoken about in the same breathe..