an excellent David Raya save<\/a> from Alejandro Garnacho, who had come on as a substitute. In the final five minutes of regulation time plus the six additional minutes, Arsenal completed only seven passes.<\/p>\nIt was difficult to know what came first \u2013 the fans\u2019 anxiety or that of the players. Either way, the mood was edgy. Timber said it was important that the squad acknowledged and discussed it in order to find a way through it. Arsenal are next in action at Brighton on Wednesday night. They are five points clear of Manchester City at the top of the table, having played one game more.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course you feel it, especially at the end,\u201d Timber said when asked about the anxiety in the stadium. \u201cI think we stopped playing a bit, which was unnecessary \u2013 especially with a man up. It is something we need to work on and talk about because it happened a couple of times this season already. Things like this \u2026 they happen, especially against a good team like Chelsea. So it is definitely something we need to speak about.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt happened as well this season that we got through it when it got nervous but also a couple of times we didn\u2019t. It is part of the game and you have to understand what happens in the moment and the energy within the place, within the crowd, anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Timber won the Eredivisie with Ajax in 2021 and 2022 but he does not feel it entitles him to offer advice to his Arsenal teammates on how to stay the course.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is hard because you don\u2019t want to act like you are the one that knows everything or you are the wise one,\u201d Timber said. \u201cAt the same time, it is so different. Every season is so different but also the Premier League is so different compared to the Dutch league.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just trying to take the experiences from myself, knowing how important these last games are, but I think everyone knows it. The coach knows it really well, and it is going to be exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurri\u00ebn Timber says Arsenal\u2019s players can feel the anxiety of the Emirates Stadium crowd and must find a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-500494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}