Arsenal 5 - 2 Tottenham: Beating The Spurds? Priceless

Rosicky: rolled the years back

With 4 minutes gone, Saha found too much space through the centre of our defence, eventually scored with  a heavily deflected shot off  Vermaelen and over Szczesny. I thought here we go again... 34 minutes on the clock and Spurs were 2-0 up through an Adebayor penalty, after some brilliant simulation (politically correct speak for diving) from Bale. I must say Bale has a striking resemblance to a chimpanzee... but I digress....

But I must say we were playing very well even before going two goals down. It just had that sense of - we shall attack but they will hit us against the run of play- about it.

However, on this occassion my fears proved to be unfounded- gladly. 40 minutes gone, Van Persie hit the post, the ball went wide to Gibbs. He passed to Arteta, who chipped a little cross into the box and Sagna attacked the ball fiercely!! 1-2. I thought, well well well.. we might have a game on our hands here... I was impressed with Sagna's celebration. He didn't run into the corner and wait for his team mates to come and pile on top of him. He just fisted the air, enroute to placing the ball on the kick-off spot. Basically saying "let's get on with it".

Two minutes later, Van Persie really got on with it. He swivelled on the edge of the box and let fly a left-footed drive. 2-2. Spurs were shaken. They were thankful for the half-time whistle.

But after the restart, Arsenal continued right where they had left off. After some wonderful play, Rosicky chipped the Spurs keeper to make it 3-2. I thought Spurs would raise their game but again I was proved wrong. 10 minutes later, Walcott gone on the end of a Van Persie pass, controlled it and chipped Friedel. 4-2 to the Arsenal. Spurs were stunned.

Hardly 3 minutes later, Walcott again gone on the end of a through ball, this time from Song and strike a early grass cutter past Friedel. 5-2 to the Arsenal the final score!!

considering that we gave Spurs a 2-goal head-start, this was a real hiding!! Harry Redknapp and his men sat on the bench, red-faced, looking bewildered. Priceless!!! We reminded Spurs, emphatically, that we are still the Top Dog in North London.

We gave a complete performance. Had quality, fight, belief, urgency... we closed Spurs down in midfield and forward areas. Rosicky rewinded the years... Our movement was better than we have seen in recent weeks. Put simply, we refused to lose the game. And this was a game we could not afford to lose. We have cut the gap down to 7 points. If Spurs lose and United next week, we beat Liverpool and  Chelsea win their next game, suddenly the gap will be 4 points. There will be a 3-team race for 3rd spot.

We could yet still finish above Spurs... but let's not get ahead of ourselves and enjoy this win.

Forwards march the Arsenal!!!
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