Kai Havertz slams remaining critics in Arsenal derby delight as David Raya scrutiny unwarranted

Arsenal continued their strong form and title-challenging intentions by winning at theTottenham Hotspur Stadium for a second successive season. Spurs had threatened to end their hopes of chasing the Premier League when Son Heung-min's penalty hit the back of the net to half the deficit with time remaining, but the Gunners held on.

Mikel Arteta’s side were far from their best, loose in possession and gave away chances far too easily. Yet, when they were tested they held firm and only did the goals for the home side come when some individual mistakes from David Raya and Declan Rice gifted them to Ange Postecoglou’s team.

A game of such magnitude certainly delivered for the neutrals whilst wracking the nerves of any Gunners watching in the ground or through a screen. It did indeed offer up plenty of successes and frustrations for football.london

Derbies mean form goes out the window and anything can happen. That might not have been the case for what was seen in the first half from a scoreline perspective, but certainly performance-wise as the Gunners looked shaky.

However, when you're perhaps not on your best form when the chances come you have to take them and that is exactly what they did. The own goal of course helped, but as Bukayo Saka ran away he was brilliant in his curling finish past Guglielmo Vicario.

Kai Havertz, again, maybe posed the question of whether Arsenal do need to sign a marquee striker to start in the summer. His header from Rice's corner was great and again the German turns up in yet another massive game.

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