Mikel Arteta was not best pleased by Hurzeler's comments. Said he'd like the headline to be "I love my players".

Fabian Hurzeler: There was only one team who tried to play football today

Suspect they could go all night if you let them

FT Brighton 0, Arsenal 1 - Like a 90 minute loop of the first time you see the old lady in Weapons. Terrifying. But ultimately it was worth the horror.

I wouldn't want you to think this has been a good Arsenal performance, let alone a great one, but Brighton have still just gone 20 minutes without a shot.

Amex Stadium boos Arsenal players getting into a huddle. Referee hadn't blown for the kick off or anything like that.

HT - Brighton 0, Arsenal 1 - A chorus of boos from the home end for the referee, suspect you'd get similar from the away. A really bad game of football, one where Arsenal are playing with fire. If they're planning on hoofing to safety for 81 minutes, things could go wrong.

Mitoma puts his arm towards Raya's neck, not with any force it should be said, to stop him from distributing the ball quickly for Arsenal. That seems like both dangerous play and a tactical foul. No yellow.

It's so easy right now for Brighton to drive passes and bodies through the middle. Twice they've had give and go chances with a forward posting up and they're driving passes through gaps that don't usually exist in Arsenal defences. A function of heavy legged Zubimendi and Rice?

Since he joined Arsenal, Gabriel has blocked nearly 10% of opponent shots when he has been on the field in Premier League games. He has blocked 157 shots. David Raya has saved 177 (admittedly in 84 fewer games but he does get to use his hands and it is his job).

Arsenal's record without Saliba is better than you probably think it is. Eight wins, two draws and a loss this season, the defeat at Villa Park when Gabriel was also missing.

Brighton XI: Verbruggen; Wieffer, Van Hecke, Boscagli, Kadioglu; Baleba, Gross; Gomez, Hinshelwood, Mitoma; Rutter Arsenal XI: Raya; Timber, Mosquera, Gabriel, Hincapie; Rice, Zubimendi; Saka, Eze, Martinelli; Gyokeres

Since the start of the 2023-24 season Chelsea have received 125 yellow cards for what might be termed acts of ill-discipline. That's nearly 50 more than any other team. So far there are no signs that the crisis of ill-discipline is easing under Liam Rosenior. www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

Liverpool have taken 28 corners in the last month. 27 have been inswingers into the meat wall. And they have been very, very effective. If this is an issue, it's one that a lot of teams are exploiting. That and more thoughts on the top four race.

Since Carrick's appointment 20 of United's 24 corners in the Premier League have been inswingers, the sort that really prompt that meat wall grappling. Every smart team in the league is doing this and that might end up being the problem.

With 100 days until the World Cup begins -- and 84 until Mauricio Pochettino names his USMNT squad -- Yunus Musah has a lot of work to do. And yet still he is talking like a man who is going to be on the pitch when the action starts.

Passes completed between Pedro Neto's red card and final whistle Arsenal: 55 Chelsea: 114

Touching of the Brits to give Noel Gallagher a songwriting award on the 30th anniversary of him releasing a passable tune.

Arsenal vs. Everton will now be at 5:30 pm on Saturday, March 14

Schedule for the round of 16 has been confirmed. Arsenal and Man City on the same nights so no one can moan about implications on the title race.

Kate Winslet when she sees what Leo DiCaprio has been sketching

It's never easy to win a Champions League but Arsenal's odds look as good as they ever have at this stage of a competition. Leverkusen, Bodo/Glimt or Sporting and then one from Newcastle, Barcelona, Atletico or Spurs. (Can't wait to see the quotes on this in the months ahead)

Also in UEFA's report, Chelsea's pre-tax loss is eclipsed only by Barcelona in 2020-21, the teeth of the pandemic.

From UEFA's 2025 Club Finance & Investment Landscape, out today (though there's a lag between these figures and current situation). Quite a lot of talking points just from this but I do think it speaks very highly of a team to be competing for titles at €100m wage disadvantages.

Osimhen with surely the first ever case of not celebrating against a club you might have liked to have joined in the past and would probably go to if the opportunity presents itself again.

Typifies Saka's season so far that Opta and PL (but not FPL?) didn't give him an assist for Eze's opener yesterday. Bissouma judged to have touched the ball. Five goals and three assists not the output he'd want but there have been many good days without end product.

It's still unlikely to end in disaster but on Sunday you could see how Tottenham's season could head further down a very dicey path. That Tudor says he needs "time" to drill tactics ill-fitting for this opponent only emphasises how soon Spurs need to fix this.

Tudor: "We need to see something good [i.e. Arsenal], to see where we need to be."

Putting a cap on this day with a (dreadful) song whose chorus is a chant of “I don’t know where we are going now” feels a bit of a self-own, even by Spurs standards.

1-4, Gyokeres

Madueke coming on as Saka gets treatment for an injury

The stewards who removed that flair are the first Tottenham employees to get a touch in the Arsenal penalty area since the 52nd minute

The second half of this has been the most Champions League-y Premier League game I can remember Arsenal playing this season. A team that doesn't have the facilities to press and/or possess against them, intent on doing that and lucky to have not conceded more.

Go and get the "the joke is always on Tottenham" tweet

1-3, Eze

1-2, Gyokeres

HT Tottenham 1, Arsenal 1 - Some players have really turned up for Arsenal today. Several others are far below their level when all that's needed is control and calm.

1-1, Kolo Muani

0-1, Eze

David Raya's pass completion rate, long passes into the middle vertical third of the pitch, Premier League only 21-22: 31.3% 22-23: 27.6% 23-24: 28% 24-25: 30% 25-26: 19.1%

Looks like the linesman in the east stand is having an issue, one would assume with his technology. A lot of guessing here because I'm in a football stadium and no one thinks to tell the people in here.

"Second again ole ole" burbling around the ground after a chant of "champions of Europe" from the Spurs fans. Spurs presenter Paul Coyle introduces the game with the line "they're worried, they're nervous as hell". Suspect he doesn't mean the team in 16th, four points off the drop.

Spurs readying themselves for the meat wall in the warm up. Huge dub for @michaelcaley.bsky.social here

How could you ever want rid of VAR after a moment of comedy gold like that?

Tottenham XI: Vicario; Palhinha, Dragusin, Van de Ven; Gray, Bissouma, Sarr, Spence; Gallagher, Simons; Kolo Muani Arsenal XI: Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie; Zubimendi, Eze, Rice; Saka, Gyokeres, Trossard

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Doesn’t it feel like Arsenal keep conceding one of their opponents goals of the season? The data suggest maybe they are but why? Allowing low pressure shots, having the shortest goalkeeper in the Premier League, dumb luck or some combination of the lot?

Doesn’t it feel like Arsenal keep conceding one of their opponents goals of the season? The data suggest maybe they are but why? Allowing low pressure shots, having the shortest goalkeeper in the Premier League, dumb luck or some combination of the lot?

Arsenal team news - No fresh injury concerns, Arteta confirms, Trossard "fine" - "A big possibility" that Havertz and Odegaard will be available for Sunday - Arteta hails "a tremendous reaction again" after the Wolves draw