Good win and I almost feel sorry for spurs who couldn't even score against 10 men Arsenal. I'm glad the true Adebayor played today, he didn't look awfully interested in the game, much like most of his time at Arsenal and Man City
Not sure I agree with you, his chances were hardly clear cut or 1 on 1 with the keeper the same way Rosicky's was. The left footed effort in 1st half was going in but for the deflection, and he created the space for the shot himself. He made good runs, including the one for Santi's goal. Heck, even Roy Keane was impressed with Theo's play today, one of the commentators mentioned him when they were talking about man of the match. I think only thing he could've done better was pulling it back for Cazorla ( or was it Monreal ) early in the 1st half when instead he went for a shot, but again he created the chance.
He got trampled on, smashed in the ribs and got his studs caught in the grass making that tackle and I think did hurt his knee. He would've taken excessive abuse from the spurs fans who surely thought he was cheating and time wasting, I think we can be glad it was him and not Wilshere who was down there as Wilshere's gesture would not have been so kind.
I've not always been Walcott's biggest fan but since coming back recently he's had good purpose to his play and offered a goal threat,
He had some excellent chances, he decided to take I think 2 shots stupidly early. He's the fastest man on earth, well some commentators would have you believe that, one particular chance he was basically in line with the last defender but there was probably 10 yards between them, he was already running and decided to take the shot from outside the box, tamely, when he had a massive amount of space to run in to and no defender in the way yet.
90% of strikers wouldn't shoot from that distance with that much space to run in to, the only strikers who would have shot would be those with big power, a Hasselbaink style thunder *******... Theo does not have that in his bag at all. He had 8 shots, some fantastic positions, he had at least one proper one on one, and at least 2-3 others that should have been one on one if he didn't shoot early for no reason or make entirely the wrong choice.
He was poor today, and as I said, I've never seen a player badly enough injured to go off sitting up smiling on a stretcher. Again as I said, Henry/Drogba/Suarez would all have only gone off it really hurt, hell, those three players would likely have carried on hurt if they'd scored 2 and were on a hat-trick, let alone 8 shots and no goals. His attitude stinks, he goes down easily, stays down, goes off without any fight and acts like he's god despite having a shocking game.
Spurs should have been on the end of another 5-0 thrashing today, the difference is Aguero, Suarez and Walcott being utterly awful in comparison. I don't think Suarez or Aguero had difficulty against Spurs , they were gifted chance after chance. I think Arsenal had to work a bit more for their chances, but not much more, but Walcott Spur-ned chance after chance after chance.
Spurs did not have a good game, they weren't tactically inept as AVB had them, but they aren't used to playing this way and have a very injury hit squad. If they play as poorly in 18 months then Sherwood isn't the right guy(but then neither was he hyped as the second coming, backed hugely nor given a monster wage).