Aerials won, dispossession, and possession can be counted as defensive statistic that favored Pochettino. Some teams who plays at home don’t always have favorable possessions statistic. When spurs played United at our home, you guys had more possession. The same can be said when Liverpool or Manchester city play tough opposition away. It is more down to the managerial philosophy than home favorability. Arsenal are a possession based team, Pochettino tactics made them to sit back, so it was done based on pochettino tactical play.
The 11 was fairly even, but Arsenal had the much better resources available to choose from to alter the game later on. Their midfield was stronger and if you take into account form and confidence, then Arsenal was more favorable to win this game. How pochettino managed to control the game with a midfield as average as the one he put out was incredible. It is spoiled by thinking that you are entitled to a victory towards a very tough Arsenal side who was flying high before this game. I expected spurs to lose and their fans should be glad they are still four points ahead of fifth place.
You claim that the back five was very ineffective but at the end of the day, you still got a result. You claim that Llorente was ineffective but on another day, he might have gotten a goal from a set piece as he did when he came on versus Dortmund. Not all managers are Nostradamus and some players are capable of doing well if things go there way during the game. I have underrated Llorente many times and he has definitely surprised me with s goal. No doubt he could have done the same if he came on.
Pochettino's tactics didn't make Arsenal sit back, it was clearly a tactical instruction from Emery to sit on the break and play less on the front foot than usual .. hence why Ozil and Aubameyang were dropped. They surrendered a lot of the ball and this became even more the case when they scored early, a team who scores early naturally sits further back and is happy for the opposition to hold on to the ball in their own half. Not that having the ball is itself a virtue, or people would be rating Sarri or Van Gaal a hell of a lot higher, we've had plenty of games with most of the ball and nothing to show for it.
Who the hell is entitled? I didn't think we were entitled to anything, I was worried about this game! I do however think you're completely overrating Arsenal who are generally hideous away from home and regularly get batterings from the rest of the top six away from the Emirates. Guendouzi, Xhaka and Ramsey is a bang average midfield of their own, so let's not pretend there is some huge gap there. We managed to 'control' the midfield again because Arsenal were happy for us to have the ball and play it in front of their defence, knowing we lacked the creativity to do anything with it. Sissoko & Wanyama may have limitations but they're not being bullied off the ball. Also, our fans ARE glad to be where we are, I've spoken a million times about how overall this has been a great season, but taking this game in isolation I think Pochettino made errors. That's all, no big toys out of the pram overreaction, just a different view of this game to you.
We got a draw at home to a side lower in the table than us, why are you continuing to act like we got some great result? Honestly we needed a win here, with the draw we're sucked straight in to the top 4 race still needing to go to the Etihad and Anfield. The result we needed was a win, we didn't get that, most of the top six win their home games against their rivals, Chelsea and Arsenal already beat us at the Emirates/Stamford Bridge. Llorente WAS ineffective, and the fact he got a goal vs Dortmund doesn't change that. That was maybe the first or second time that substitution has ever worked because it forces us to play a style we're uncomfortable with, you could see how we started to lose our heads when he came on because we were playing desperate balls over the top. Lucas would have provided a player capable of getting at a defence, kept us playing the ball on the ground and given something for Arsenal to worry about in behind, he's a better player than Llorente.
Honestly, I'll leave it there. Bottom line is you think that Pochettino had a great game because we had possession and won some aerial duels, and I disagree. All about opinions and what I saw was not a team who were really in control of the game despite having the ball, and substitutions which failed to have a positive impact. We're also fundamentally never going to agree that a point at home vs Arsenal after we've lost 2 in a row is a good result, we needed to properly bounce back here and distance ourselves from the battle again, and we fialed to do that and had Aubameyang scored his penalty, would be in a disastrous position.