阿尔特塔很高兴为我们的支持者带来德比日的欢乐

米克尔·阿尔特塔很高兴我们击败托特纳姆热刺队并继续争夺英超冠军，为我们的球迷带来了最好的下午。中场休息时，皮埃尔·埃米尔·霍伊别尔 (Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg) 头球破门后，我们以 3-0 领先。布卡约·萨卡完成了一次精彩的反击，凯·哈弗茨在角球中头球破门，这让德比日的胜利看起来像是一场令人信服的比赛。大卫·拉亚 (David Raya) 允许克里斯蒂安·罗梅罗 (Cristian Romero) 进球，然后我们丢了一个点球，孙兴慜 (Heung-min Son) 罚进了一个令人神经紧张的终结。但是米克尔 (Mikel) 很高兴我们能够在这场充满了太多人的比赛中冲过终点线。我们面临着获得胜利的压力。“这是一场北伦敦德比，对手是我们的对手，我们在一个美丽的体育场客场对阵一支非常优秀的球队，”他说。 “你将不得不受苦，但这也是享受的一部分。所以希望现在我们已经给我们的支持者带来了一个美好的下午，并有机会为球队感到自豪。“你来到这里知道你必须赢得每场比赛。你正在[试图]赢得联赛。你来到你的对手这里，你知道这里其他大球队发生了什么，你必须表现出色并赢得比赛。“感觉我们让自己变得非常困难，尤其是比赛开始的方式以及我们在 3-0 的情况下的控制力以及我们在下半场的表现。”拉亚（Raya）犯了一个不寻常的错误，他把球传给了罗梅罗（Romero）得分，但米克尔对我们如何应对这一挫折感到高兴，并作为一个团队进行激励，以确保它不会破坏我们获胜的机会。“这是游戏的一部分，我喜欢团队的反应，尤其是那些犯下这些错误的个人，因为他们表现出了真正的性格，”他补充道。“[Raya]挺身而出，做了他最擅长的事情。这就是你看到球员的时候——当事情危在旦夕时，这就是勇气。说起来很容易，但你必须做到这一点当这样的事情发生时，我不知道我是否有勇气做他所做的事情，对他们表示极大的赞扬。”这场胜利对我们的主帅来说格外甜蜜，因为这是他在英超的第 100 场胜利。联赛仅进行了 169 场比赛。虽然他很高兴能在对阵热刺的比赛中获胜，但他很高兴与其他所有人分享这份荣誉，他们为确保北伦敦的红半区今晚喊得最响亮而做出了贡献。“这真的很好，也是一个值得庆祝的特殊日子，”他补充道。 “所以，非常感谢俱乐部的每一个人，每天与我们一起工作的所有工作人员，特别是我们的球员，以实现这一目标。“理疗师、按摩师和营养师——每个参与我们工作的人球员们以最好的身体和精神状态来对待每场比赛。这是一个非常艰难的四月，除了 Jurrien [Timber] 之外，我们已经准备好了整个球队。他们处于一个很棒的位置，我们需要这个。我们知道这将有多么重要。”“The physios and the masseur and nutrition - everybody that is involved to have our players in the best physical and mental condition to approach every game. It's been a really demanding April, and we have the whole squad ready, apart from Jurrien [Timber]. They are in a great place and we need that. We knew how important it was going to be.”

North London derby wins are always cherished, but our first back-to-back successes at Tottenham since 1988 will certainly live long in the memory.Adrian Clarke has cast his expert eye over our 3-2 win against Tottenham Hotspur to find out why we were successful this time around, as we continued our push for the Premier League title.Havertz the heroKai Havertz equalled Alexis Sanchez’s record of providing a goal and an assist in four different Premier League matches in a campaign, a landmark set by the Chilean in 2016/17, but remarkably, our on-song No. 29 has achieved that feat across his last 13 appearances alone.His inch-perfect cross-field pass to release Bukayo Saka for our second goal on the counter-attack was sublime in its execution, and the winger's fabulous finish completed a perfect breakaway.Aside from scoring our third goal with a header from Declan Rice’s corner (his only attempt of the game) the German’s all-round performance was top-class.Always an outlet for David Raya and the defenders to hit with a longer pass that missed out Tottenham’s press, Havertz worked hard to show for the ball throughout. His hold-up play was excellent, helping us gain territory at key moments.As shown on this chalkboard (below) our centre forward contributed four vital clearances from inside his own six-yard box (shown by the triangles), as well as linking play in three distinct parts of the pitch. Dropping back to help us play out from the back when needed, he also stretched Spurs by showing for the ball on both wings, holding onto the ball until teammates could get up to support him.Defending our boxOur well-disciplined 4-4-2 shape out of possession was hard for the hosts to break down, so they resorted to whipping hopeful crosses into the box from wide areas. It was the highest number of crosses we have faced during the entire campaign, with the bulk from open play arriving from Spurs’ right-hand side. Raya is confident at coming out to collect hanging balls, and he did so flawlessly on numerous occasions.Our defensive players also showed incredible resilience. Forced into making 19 headed clearances (our most of the season, by four) the likes of Ben White (6), William Saliba (4), Gabriel (4), Havertz (4) and Rice (3) held firm.The game state from 65 minutes onwards, after Cristian Romero was gifted a goal out of nowhere, saw the Gunners withstand a lot of territorial pressure, yet under that duress we stood tall, repelling a series of dangerous balls sent into our box.Arsenal clearances v SpursSet-piece masteryTwo wonderful corner kick deliveries from Saka and Rice provided crucial goals, and it is worth breaking down the routine we produced for Havertz’s matchwinner, from an accurate Rice inswinger.As we so often do, we stationed most of our attackers at the far post, with Havertz and Gabriel man-marked. Escaping their close attention would be key, and the way they managed it was simple, but also smart in the extreme.Here is the initial setup with Havertz and Dejan Kulusevski circled in yellow, and Gabriel circled in green:The Brazilian triggered the runs by darting through a gap closer to the goalline, taking his marker with him. Havertz simultaneously arcs his run around the outside as the pair cross over, and this causes Kulusevski to collide with Tottenham’s own zonal markers in the process:Our striker gets a two-yard advantage, looping his run around the stationary zonal defenders to head home unopposed. Meanwhile, Kulusevski was left stranded (circled) a long way from the player he was supposed to mark:It was another fabulous routine that means we have now scored 16 goals from corners this season. Not since Tony Pulis’ West Bromwich Albion in 2016 has a Premier League team found the back of the net with as many.Saka shinesSaka delivered another memorable performance against our north London rivals, scoring a great goal and being heavily involved throughout. It felt as if we tactically targeted his duel with Ben Davies as an avenue where we would enjoy success, and this proved to be the case as he constantly ran at the Welshman. It is not often you see a winger receive the most touches of the ball, but that was the case here.As you can see clearly on this attacking thirds chalkboard, we focused most of our attacking attention on getting Saka into 1v1s against Tottenham’s stand-in left-back:Recovering our composureWe found ourselves 3-0 up without ever settling into a rhythm on the ball, only having a 28.5 per cent share of possession during the first half.Mikel Arteta’s message at the break was clear. He wanted his players to manage the game by asserting better control of possession, keeping the ball patiently and making the home side chase it. This plan worked brilliantly for 20 minutes as we toyed with Tottenham, completing over 90 per cent of our passes, and keeping the distribution short and sharp:Raya’s loose pass to Romero for Spurs’ first goal changed the dynamic, with Ange Postecoglou’s side hugely reinvigorated from that point onwards. Forced onto the back foot, and with a busy recent schedule also sapping energy levels, we found it harder to counter with the sort of speed that was required.This position made for a nervy spell, exacerbated by Son Heung-Min’s late penalty, but satisfyingly the team showed great courage, resolve and togetherness to see the job through and record a fabulous, but hard-earned, three-point haul.