"Arsenal in control AGAIN of the title destiny" | THE FINAL WHISTLE
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Well, we finished 1-0 to the Arsenal, Keith.
And it's a result that will have both sides of North London celebrating tonight, of course, Tottenham. We'll be happy that West Ham failed to get any points in the game. Gives them the chance to control their own destiny in the last three matches in the battle to beat the drop. While Arsenal of course are now in control again of the title destiny of the Premier League. There's nowhere else we can start I don't think in this game other than that disallowed goal scored by Callum Wilson right at the end for West Ham. And look, I was just saying to you before we started our little chat, There was a lot of stuff going on in the box there. And we've seen, I think correctly, the West Ham player, Tadebo.
I think once he puts his hand on the arm of David Ryan, stops him from catching the ball, he can't have any complaints. But there was a lot of pushing, a lot of shoving. We saw Declan Rice rugby tackling Mavropanos at the back post. Trossard made an illegal challenge in there. So it's down to the referee to stop... the play then because he's already seen a couple of fouls he has to stop it when the corner is being taken but instead he allows play to develop he allows West Ham to score the goal and then we're left with this controversial mess so they're using VAR as something as something of a backup instead of actually doing their job on the pitch
Yeah, I take your point. I think JD described it a couple of weeks ago as stabilisers for the referee that if they make a mistake VAR will come and sort it out for them. But as you say, I think if we were to look at that corner into the box again, you could probably highlight six or seven fouls and a lot of them look like they're being made by Arsenal players. but given where the vicinity of the ball and the fact that David Royer gets both hands on it and it squirms through the middle, then you look at Pablo with the arm on his arm, there's a bit of a forearm across his face as well, which I'm sure has something to do with David Royer's sight.
What were the key moments in the Arsenal vs West Ham match?
You can see why the foul has been given and generally when you make contact with the goalkeeper and you don't make any contact with the ball, it's always going to be a foul. I think we all know goalkeepers are a protected species, so I'm not surprised that it was given but I ultimately do take your point that while there's wrestling matches going on like that the referee's got to stop it don't let the corner kick come in and go from there but yeah it's it was just one of those I mean I'm not going to go down too deep into the analytics I think Arsenal just had to win that game by hook or by crook just going to win that game somehow they managed to do that wasn't a brilliant performance but there were some brilliant individual moments in the game and
I think I need to highlight Martin Odegaard coming off the bench. Obviously lost his place now to Zuba, Mendy, Lewis, Skelly, Rice, whoever else might play in the middle. But he doesn't stick the bottom lip out when he gets called upon. Get out there and get us a goal. You could easily go, I should have started, you know. Not quite up for it. But he just keeps getting the ball. As soon as he comes on, killer pass in behind, nothing comes from it. Five minutes later, he does it again. And the third time he does it, he wanders into the 18-yard box and just gives the ball to Trossard, who manages to dig out a lovely little finish.
it just held their skelter chaotic mental game and thankfully Arsenal managed to come out the right side of it yeah and Keith you rightly correct me there it was Pablo of course not Tadebo I need a lie down myself after the game but Martin Odegaard I think Mikel Arteta was my drink after that game because we did say during the commentary that
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