Arsenal’s furious press initially disrupted Spurs’ patient build-up play, but feeling gaining traction Harry Kane sold at exactly the right time
Maddison himself had earlier been robbed by Gabriel Jesus directly in front of the Tottenham goal, but the Arsenal striker smashed a shot over when he should really have scored. It’s notable that two of the biggest chances in the game came from players losing possession while taking what just a few years ago would have been regarded as insane risks in front of their own goal. These days, that’s just what the coach expects of you.
Mikel Arteta, meanwhile, has been making headlines all week for his avant-garde views on goalkeepers, suggesting that maybe they should be rotated like players in other positions. It’s not clear why Schmeichel thinks that a goalkeeper threatened with rotation would suddenly start to “try” stupid things. A perfect game for a goalkeeper would still be a game in which they make no mistakes.
Aaron Ramsdale was one of those 12, so Arteta is a very recent convert to the idea of rotating goalkeepers. David Raya was another of the 12. These guys are used to playing every minute. Still, if Arteta really is in the business of smokescreens, you have to wonder if all this talk of goalkeepers is designed to obscure the fact that Arsenal’s real problems are at the other end of the pitch.
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