More than a thousand Gooners voted in this post-match survey, an all-time high (the votes have been trickling in since the graphic was created). While these are less stats-driven than what you’ll get from whoscored or sofascore, I’d much rather have you punching in a bunch of ones in a survey than punching the drywall. On days like these, the post-match survey might serve as more of a purgative catharsis than anything else. That said, few escaped our post-match wrath, and when “no one” garners 25% of the MOTM vote, you know we’re upset. Simply put, this draw was a setback, two points dropped rather than one kept, and an invitation to Tottenham to believe that they’re onto something here. Right. We have a League Cup clash at Brentford on Wednesday before traveling to face Bournemouth on Saturday. Let’s hope this result sends a wake-up call to the lads and Arteta: find some intensity and fluidity!

Here are a few questions that come to mind after stumbling to a draw at home against Tottenham:

• Why didn’t we do more to target Udogie, a 20 year old clearly out of his depth against Saka, after he was booked in the 15th minute?
• Why take Vieira off despite his looking lively?
• Why send Havertz, who must be low on confidence, into the cauldron of a North London Derby?
• Why leave Nketiah on despite his having a mare?
• Why sub Jesus off when we want a goal?

We’ll have to explore the ramifications of this one in more depth later. For now, get to the poll to rate the lads and choose a MOTM…

Let’s admit that we’ve gotten off to a stutter-stop start, what with struggling to see off Nottingham Forest and Palace and drawing at home to Fulham before finally reeling off a trio of more-convincing results against Everton, Man U, and PSV. By contrast, pundits would have you believing that Tottenham are flying high. Why, they’re even above us on goal difference! Looks like another banner year for Tottenham. Heung-Min Son declared that “Arsenal won’t want to face us at this time. Everyone is running for each other, everyone is fighting for each other.” Hm. We’ll see.