{"id":493385,"date":"2026-02-23T04:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493385\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:32:08","slug":"danny-murphy-column-they-were-attacking-from-every-angle-in-the-end-why-spurs-couldnt-keep-arsenal-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493385\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Murphy column: ‘They were attacking from every angle in the end’ – why Spurs couldn’t keep Arsenal out"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been times in the past where, when you are playing Arsenal<\/a>, Saka and Odegaard are the two players you know you need to stop.<\/p>\n

Teams would think, if you can condense play in their areas, you can control them – and if it goes over to another part of the pitch, you can cope with it.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, however, it felt like Arsenal<\/a> were coming from every angle in the end. Eze, especially, was getting on the ball in these pockets of space in front of the Spurs defence.<\/p>\n

That helped Gyokeres too, because it meant there was more room for him as well.<\/p>\n

Gyokeres had started well anyway, and had a great early chance which he made himself, but this ended up being one of his best games in an Arsenal<\/a> shirt.<\/p>\n

It probably helped that he had a yard of pace on Radu Dragusin, who is not the quickest defender, but he played on him nicely and it was clever of him to stay on the left side.<\/p>\n

I remember watching a lot of Gyokeres’ goals for Sporting and he liked to come off that flank a lot, and we have not seen him do it enough this season.<\/p>\n

That might change now and, when he got his first goal, it was like the weight had been lifted off his shoulders.<\/p>\n

Some of the Arsenal<\/a> fans who are not convinced by him are going to be more on his side now he has scored twice against Tottenham<\/a>, and his goals were top quality too.<\/p>\n

I’d say that was one of his best games in an Arsenal<\/a> shirt and to do it in a north London derby will do him the world of good.<\/p>\n

Danny Murphy was speaking to BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been times in the past where, when you are playing Arsenal, Saka and Odegaard are the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-493385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}