ARSENAL 2 (Romero OG 26, Saka pen 54) TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 (Son 42, 55)
Arsenal and Tottenham both love a late winning goal, but even ten minutes of stoppage time was not enough to break the deadlock in a fiercely contested derby, with a point apiece meaning Manchester City increased their lead over the north London rivals.
Bukayo Saka scored twice for Arsenal, one of them thanks to a huge deflection off Cristian Romero, but Heung Min Son equalised quickly on both occasions, and a draw was about right.
Arsenal did what they have been doing so well in the past 18 months, but Tottenham are a vastly-improved side since Ange Postecoglou took over from Antonio Conte, and played some sparkling stuff too, dominating in terms of possession, shots on goal and shots on target, and only some superb last ditch defending from William Saliba denied them more goals.
Arsenal could also have scored more but for the reflexes of Guglielmo Vicario, who had little chance with both goals and made excellent saves from Saka and Gabriel Jesus, who had the best of the early chances when he met Saka's cross with a goalbound half-volley that the Italian keeper did well to tip away.
Son got the ball in the Arsenal net early on, but was offside when he diverted Brennan Johnson's low shot.
Arsenal made the breakthrough in the 26th minute. Dejan Kulusevski ran out of road on Tottenham's right and Arsenal broke quickly. When Saka receives the ball wide on the right, it is a given that he will cut inside, but Spurs did not respond quickly enough and gave him the time and space to curl in a cross-shot with his left boot.
Vicario looked to have the flight of the ball covered until Romero stepped across and deflected it past him with his knee.
Arsenal's
Read on irishexaminer.com