From ESPN:
Arsenal fans can celebrate the earliest 'St Totteringham's Day' in Premier League history after north London rivals Tottenham fell to another defeat on Sunday.
St Totteringham's Day is an unofficial celebration for Arsenal fans that marks the date on which the Gunners are mathematically guaranteed to finish higher in the table than Tottenham.
Three Arsenal players scored on corner kicks today, though unfortunately one was into our own net. In Hincapie's defense, Reece's corners were extremely hard to defend. As were Rice's, and Saka's. I love the ones Saka hooks a little past the far post and close to the endline. Our guy can usually beat the defenders to this position, and a really good header (like Gabriel's on this first goal) sent across the box might be met by a Gunner head--in this case Saliba's who powered it off a defender's back and past Sanchez. Just to get that first part right is amazing skill.
1-1 at the half after Hincapie's own-goal. The second half saw Chelsea on top for the most part, although Arsenal got some good chances. We could not hold onto the ball against Chelsea's pressing defense. We pressed too, but they started theirs somewhat farther from our goal than we did from theirs. Chelsea's indiscipline again proved fatal. A foul on Saka allowed a free kick that Sanchez could only punch for a corner, Rice's great kick met Timber's head, and he nodded it down to beat the keeper from close range. Soon after that, Pedro Neto got a second yellow for taking out Martinelli who'd skipped past him. For the third time in a few minutes, referee Darren England stopped play for a foul by Chelsea when we were breaking. The crowd was somewhat mollified when the red came out. They, like I, must have expected Arsenal to close out the game easily. But the Blues outplayed us right to the end, with Raya having to reprise his heroics to prevent a Garnacho cross from going in.
It was ill-tempered, high energy, nervy football with plenty of misplaced passes but very few missed markers in open play. Well, it's Brighton next, followed by Mansfield (FA Cup) and Leverkusen (ECL). We're having more cup games than league games in the next half-dozen or so.
