Gunners legend Perry Groves believes Arsenal should have scored five goals against Jose Mourinho’s out-of-sorts Tottenham Hotspur side during their recent Premier League clash, as he told talkSPORT (16 April, 10.30am).
In the end, Mikel Arteta’s side had no choice but to settle for two.
That was enough, however, to seal a deserved victory over their North London rivals in a dramatic clash at the Emirates.
After Erik Lamela’s remarkable rabona had given Mourinho’s underperforming team the lead, Arsenal turned the game around thanks to a Martin Odegaard leveller and Alexandre Lacazette’s penalty-kick winner.
The scoreline didn’t exactly highlight the cavernous gap between two time-honoured rivals on the day, though.
The hosts dominated proceedings against a Spurs side who, despite boasting the attacking talents of Harry Kane, Lucas Moura, Gareth Bale and Heung Min-Son, parked a double-decker bus directly across Hugo Lloris’s goal-mouth.
Groves insists that there is no doubting the quality at Arsenal’s disposal, he is concerned about the lack of consistency from one minute to the next, highlighting that topsy-turvy 3-3 draw with West Ham.
“They beat Spurs 2-1. It should have been 5-1, to be honest. We were the dominant team,” Groves said.
“But then you get the inconsistency in (the space of) one game – the West Ham game!”
Arsenal produced one of their finest performances of the season on Thursday night, thrashing a usually rock-solid Slavia Prague side 4-0 in the Europa League quarter-finals – the Czech champions’ first home defeat in 18 months.
But wouldn’t it be oh-so typical of the Gunners to slip up at home to Fulham on Sunday?
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