Routine
We managed to bottle it but still win. Probably the best way to bottle it.
Three games left. Still expect City to take maximum points but it would be nice to be still playing for the title on the final day. So we need to just keep winning.
Until the next heart attack!
The way I have been trying to explain is - there were two stupid individual moments but outside of those moments, we didn't actually lose control. Despite two individual losses of heads, the team kept theirs. That's why we didn't ultimately bottle it, because the underlying problem wasn't a weak mentality, it was fatigue mixed with freak error
I was instinctively nervous as feck after the penalty but it was just fan nerves and 'narrative bias' i.e. ''
oh god it's happening isn't it, we all know what happens here....'' - if I were a neutral I don't think I'd have backed Spurs in-game at that point to get a draw.
I also don't buy into the common post-mortem of this game that
a) Spurs played really well in open play - they were just decent, but lacked urgency on the counter and would end up passing backwards.
b) Penalty shout before Saka's goal was actually a pen. Very mild case of a trailing leg, hitting a player that wasn't even challenging or impeding, just standing there. I spent the 2000's being called a soft Arsenal fan who wanted to turn football into a non-contact sport and even I think the game is fecked now, with the soft calls that are being given or at least considered.