Very disappointed with this draw. Thought we will lift our game against Arsenal and do enough to win. Instead we failed to lift our game and played poorly for most of the match. At least we got the draw and managed to keep our unbeaten home league record against Arsenal since Pochettino took over. In fact, we have only lost 1 league match to Arsenal at home in the last 10 years and that was under Arsenal fan Sherwood in 2014. We have to thank Lloris for this draw for saving the last minute penalty. But this draw won't help us much as our title race is virtually over and we have been dragged down to fight for the third and fourth place instead.
Well done to Kane for continuing his goal scoring run against Arsenal with a well taken penalty. Too bad he couldn't help us get the winning goal. It was a lucky penalty as Kane appeared offside when he was fouled. Disappointingly apart from the penalty we didn't look like scoring. Kane did score with a good header in the first half but was ruled offside. Eriksen and Sissoko had chances but they shot direct at the goalie while Alderweireld too wasted his chance. Eriksen's miss was really disappointing as he had all the time in the world to beat the goalie but hit it straight to him. Thought Son will score but he was missing for the whole match. I think Lamela should have started this match as he improved our attack after coming on in the second half. In fact, it was Lamela who won us the freekick from which we got the penalty after Kane was fouled. Also Moura should have come on in the second half instead of Llorente, Just like against Chelsea, our attack became toothless after Llorente came on. It shows yet again that Kane and Llorente cannot play together.
Our midfield of Sissoko and Wanyama had a mixed match. They played well in patches but failed to control the midfield fully. Sissoko worked hard as usual but he still needs to improve his finishing. He should have done better with his goal scoring chance when he hit the shot direct at the goalie. Good to see Wanyama starting in midfield after his injury problems but he looked rusty. But it was still strange to see Wanyama taken off in the second half and his midfield duties given to Rose. Thought someone like Sanchez should have played in midfield instead of Rose who made many mistakes.
Our defence had another disappointing match. We conceded yet another soft goal and gave away a soft penalty. Ofcourse both those mistakes were committed by Sanchez who had another error-prone match. Not sure why Pochettino keeps on playing error-prone Sanchez and Foyth in big matches. our defence is compact when we only play Alderweireld and Vertonghen in defence. It was a stupid mis header by Sanchez which resulted in their goal. Not sure why our entire defence were so far away in the first place. Alderweireld and Vertonghen were missing as the Arsenal player went past Wanyama to score the goal. Sanchez was also naive to concede the penalty like that late in the match. The Arsenal player clearly dived but Sanchez gave him the chance by tackling like that. Fortunately for us, Lloris saved the penalty and Vertonghen cleared the follow up. Good to see Lloris saving his second consecutive penalty after also saving Vardy's penalty against Leicester.
So, this is our first league draw of the season after going 28 matches without a draw previously. It is already a new PL record but too bad we couldn't overtake the all-time league record of 30 matches without a draw set by Stoke in 1896. With this draw, we are now winless in 3 matches which have destroyed our chances to win the league. We badly need to get back to winning ways to stay in the top 4 race.
