Arsenal survive painful flashbacks of giving up handsome leads last season to maintain their Premier League title push at Tottenham, writes Phil McNulty.
Arsenal have won consecutive top-flight away games against Spurs for the first time since September 1988 Arsenal were having painful flashbacks to the nightmare moments that threw their Premier League title challenge off course last season as a bump in the road threatened to become a giant boulder at Tottenham.
Mikel Arteta's side were sitting pretty as they exposed Spurs’ horrible frailty at corners, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg’s own goal and Kai Havertz’s header bookending Bukayo Saka’s smooth finish on the counter for their second. Things, however, have been different with Arsenal this season and they closed out a priceless three points without further alarm, celebrating wildly at the final whistle.
Their character was called into question once more after they were outplayed by Aston Villa at home then went out of the Champions League to Bayern Munich. The response of three straight wins when the pressure is on brooks no argument about their stomach for this fight. For all Spurs’ attacking prowess, they appear to fly by the seat of their pants when defending under manager Ange Postecoglou, especially at set-pieces, and Arsenal were only too happy to be the grateful beneficiaries of their lack of organisation.
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