For some, this piece will come too soon. If you need a bit more time to take in the disappointment, then that’s more than fair but maybe read on anyway and when you are ready to look to the future this might give you food for thought.
I didn’t want to write a piece about being proud of a valiant but ultimately unsuccessful performance tonight. As the match unfolded, it looked increasingly likely that would be the order of the day. I suspect there will be a few such pieces knocking about as the dust settles on our exit from the CL at the hands of PSG. Even the most determinedly negative follower would be hard pressed to say we did not play fantastically well on the night. Xg counts for nothing, but it had us ahead by more than the goal deficit we brought from London, and we were the better of two very good sides.
However, it came to nought in the end, and so I assumed I’d be writing about Jurrien Timber’s monster performance and MLS putting in another display belying his tender years, but all to no avail. Then, with five minutes to play, just at the point that we really needed to score to give ourselves any chance of grabbing the second that we needed, I found myself thinking about that crappy end of season when we lost to Newcastle, missed out on the Champions League and everything was bleak for a while until we picked ourselves up. Because the thing is, that hurt and disappointment fuelled an unprecedented improvement that saw us begin to go toe to toe with the best in the league. Seriously, do you remember us under Emery? We looked so far away from City and Liverpool that even getting a look at their coattails seemed like a pipe dream. But we used, to quote Mikel Arteta, the “bad feeling in our tummy” to transform our team.
I don’t think any of our top performers (the whole team tonight) is leaving us anytime soon, not least because they know they missed out this year and they owe the club, the manager and, most importantly, themselves. They know how close they are to winning major honours, and they know they’ve let a huge chance slip. PSG were the better side for perhaps 25 minutes of 180, but they go through. That hurts.
Anyway, to go back to the beginning, back when it was all still in our hands…
We started like a train on fire. Or a supercharged tornado. Full of hungry wolves. We were up for it and no mistake. The players believed. Two minutes in, Rice headed a Timber cross inches wide and I can’t have been alone in wondering if we’d rue the miss? A minute later Gabi half-volleyed one of a series of dangerous long throws from Partey but Donnarumma was in the right place to make a save. After seven minutes, another Partey special was cleared to Ødegaard who blasted a low shot at goal only for PSG’s magnificent Italian keeper to make an outstanding save down low to his left. Less than ten minutes played, and we could have been three up. PSG didn’t know what was going on. Was it a wolf attack? Or a speeding train highjacked by arsonists? No, it was The Arsenal!
They did give us a scare after fifteen minutes when Kvaratshkelia hit the post on a break, the ball rebounding kindly to Raya via MLS. Saliba then sold Kiwior short (stop doing that!) and Barcola raced forward to play Doue in but his shot was tame. Dembele, on the bench, might well have done better.
We went behind in gutting fashion. Rice miscontrolled a pass and then brought down the Georgian lad (who is a dynamite player, a real pleasure to watch unless he’s playing against your own team) for a justified booking. Vitinha crossed it, Partey headed it to the edge of the box where Fabian Ruiz just about took it over Martinelli’s flailing leg and lashed a shot past Raya who had no chance. It was a quality finish, and it showed the difference – we were the better team, they were the more clinical. Mind you, when Barcola again went through as we dominated possession, his weak shot was anything but clinical and Raya saved it. Half-time came and we were down on the scoresheet but well in the match. The next goal would be crucial.
Nuno Mendes had got an early booking but Saka was strangely reluctant to run at him, too often waiting to be doubled up on instead of driving at his man. An opportunity missed. When he did find space to cut inside and shoot for the far corner, Donnarumma pulled off another worldie save. If he’d not been in such inspired form tonight, then we’d have won.
Twenty minutes into the second half and from nowhere VAR told the ref to look at his monitor and he duly awarded a penalty against MLS for a handball as a tame Hakimi shot was deflected to Raya. There is not much to say. It isn’t a penalty in England, but it is in Europe. It’s a stupid interpretation but justice was done when Raya saved Vitinha’s low effort. It was hard not to think it could be the moment things would turn for us, but of course, it wasn’t.
Instead, a few minutes later – after Calafiori and Trossard replaced MLS and fit Gabi (there’s only one) – Partey could have done better clearing a ball on the edge of our box, but he tried to turn away from danger and lost it to Hakimi, who swept in a beautiful finish that Raya couldn’t reach. Again, they scored from a worse chance than those we missed. That’s the level.
The referee was really good. I even liked him refusing to give Nuno Mendes a second yellow for deliberately blocking us taking a free kick. No matter how often Arsenal get shafted for that ridiculous rule, you’ll never convince me that anyone should be sent off for it. This was a top-level match that deserved a top-level referee and it got one.
We pulled a goal back almost straight away when the ref didn’t buy Marquinhos’ fall and let Trossard run through to deflect a pass to Saka, who slotted home at the second time of asking. He then missed a glorious chance to put PSG under real pressure when Donnarumma missed a low cross and he skied the ball over the bar with an open goal gaping. It came at him fast, and he probably thought the keeper would reach it, but it’s the sort of chance that you’ve got to take if you want to be in the Champion’s League Final.
We kept going right until the last. Everyone put in a huge shift but the luck was not with us and we didn’t make any more chances. We had the ball in their box a few times, but it doesn’t seem to bounce into opposition hands from nothing in the same way it does ours. Sometimes you need the rub of the green and we did not get it tonight.
The final whistle went and we were out. Which brings me back to where I started; disappointment, pain and that horrible feeling in your belly when you know you’ve seen a golden chance pass you by. It’s no fun for us fans, but it’s life. As I watched Inter fans go nuts yesterday, a disturbingly eager director kept cutting to shots of a decimated Raphinha crying; that’s how it goes. Only one team can win and there will always be jubilation on one side and despair on the other.
For us, for tonight, we’ve got to take our medicine. But we will come again. This group of players are going nowhere. The club know they need a big transfer window and they’ve got New Broom Berta to get sweeping. This is the last step on the learning curve. This was the night when they got the lesson about what it actually takes to go on and win this bloody thing. Bayern taught us last year. We got better. PSG have beaten us tonight. We will learn. We will get better. The way to success is through the pain. When we look back in five years, tonight may well be the making of this team.
There is so much to admire about who we are and how we do things. This entire season has played out like it was scripted to challenge us in the harshest ways possible, and we have handled ourselves magnificently. There is an old saying, ‘calm seas don’t make good sailors.’ But there is no storm that lasts forever. Our day will come.
Keep the faith. Victoria Concordia Crescit.
Until next time, ‘holics.
Perfect report, GSD.
Everything but the……goalscorer!
Your words are a welcome and much-needed pick-me-up, GSD. Bravo. As I said in the previous drinks, PSG could stick the ball in the net when they had the chance, and we couldn’t. That was the only, albeit crucial, difference between two very good teams, both on the rise.
Well said, GSD. The finest of fine margins prevented us from getting to the final this year. The quality of our finishing was just not clinical enough over 2 legs. But we were the better team.
Cheers, GSD. Fair play, I found myself kind of ‘enjoying’ reading it. Which is no mean feat given the circumstances.
Spot on.
I think they were the most complete team. Both games could have gone either way, to be fair. I think ‘we were the better team’ is a delusion in this case, to be honest. We were very good, so were they. It panned out as it did because they were clinical, but both games were intense, proper cup-like ties where each team at their moment of superiority, and they seem to have learnt to weather the storm. We didn’t apply enough pressure after Saka’s miss. I think we’d have won if we’d scored a second goal already. We might have won if we’d scored early, but it is truly impossible to call as in every case it could have been a different match, and as the other semi-final proved, football is unpredictable.
Four high quality games in these semi. Is it always like this? I hardly paid attention over the previous years…. :-p
For now I am gutted but proud.
Superb report GSD captures the mood perfectly and does justice to a wonderful effort . I’ve been at some awful Arsenal moments and it’s always darkest before the dawn . Last night I watched Enrique’s press conference. While he didn’t agree we were the better side he played a fulsome tribute to us. That was us in the Champions League semi- final covering ourselves in glory . That is progress and it will continue .
My Dad gave me a book ‘ Forward Arsenal’ when I was a boy. In it it describes how we lost the 1952 Cup Final. We finished with nine men after injuries but Joe Mercer tge captain said it was his proudest moment to captain that side that day because the club was so special . I felt like that as a supporter last night
Excellent summary and some top comments above too. I’m disappointed but not devastated. Our first team, the one that is picked from a fully fit squad wins the CL this year, but that is a situation that hasn’t existed for minute one of the competition. In that regard our luck can only improve next season and if that can be coupled with improved potency up front we will most certainly be the team to beat.
NLFE
Cheers all.
Ollie. As per the roundup on Arseblog News, ‘the xg philosophy’ has our xg over the tie at 5.11 to PSG’s 3.08. The underlying numbers say we were more than 2 goals better than them, but they finished their chances.
If anyone wants to argue PSG were the better side then it’s not unreasonable, although I’d argue it’s a viewpoint based on the result. If Donnarumma hadn’t made a string of great saves and Hakimi, Dembele and Ruiz had all missed the difficult chances they scored from, then I don’t think anyone would be claiming we didn’t deserve the win because they were the better side.
Anyway, whichever side you land on, I think it is wrong to suggest that viewing us as the better side is delusional. Perhaps its more like a boxing match where it can be scored differently depending on what different judges value.
I essentially agree, GSD. ‘Delusional’ was the wrong word. I think I used it partially because of the bigger context of our failings in the league where we haven’t been very good a team for many reasons explained here and there but not all valid as ‘excuses’.
It is indeed a results-based intepretation, which I was hoping all the words I used after would highlight. They also missed some easier chances.
Basically, my feeling at the end of the day was that both teams could have arguably ‘deserved’ to win, there was not necessarily a team markedly ‘better’ than the other, which is why Arteta’s post-match comments annoyed me as rather arrogant in that particular respect. It sounded too much like a Mourinho/Ferguson/Ten Hag reaction to losing a fair tie.
We didn’t find the solutions with the means at our disposal, and well, I don’t think long throws was the answer. The first one worked, but after that, it barely troubled them.
Cheers Ollie. Blogs didn’t like the long throws either (although i did, and it seems to me that complaining about them when they led to two excellent chances is a bit harsh). I also thought his player ratings were the most off I remember seeing them. He thought MLS struggled, whereas I thought he was very good (and better than that if you count his age and experience). Timber reversed the tide against Kvaratshkelia, definitely coming out on top second time around in my view, but Blogs gave him 6.5. I’d have given him at least 8. We don’t all see the same things, and on this occasion I disagree with one of the best Arsenal voices out there. It happens.
Different opinions are available and valid, of course, but neither am I upset with Arteta’s comments. If both sides finished equally well then our chances were better over 2 legs, and we controlled most of the tie, which is something Arteta gives value to, albeit PSG always looked dangerous as they can move the ball quickly upfield without periods of control (it’s something we need to add back to our game as we were excellent at it a couple of years ago).
I think context is also valid. Arteta gets dogs abuse from Arsenal ‘fans’ as well as from other fans and across the media. He’s just got a team with huge injuries into a CL semifinal and he knows that instead of being lauded for his work there will be many who call for him to be sacked. Under those circumstances, I think it’s fair that he was bullish in his assessment of the tie. He knows others are gonna belittle the achievement.
Time is a great healer and today I’m feeling less hurt and more optimistic. We need to focus on the last 3 games and getting 9 points.
Then we can analyse what needs to be done in the Summer.
Thanks GSD as always for a great report.
The ‘Arteta out’ you see here and there is utter nonsense indeed.
The CL run was great and unexpected, and on the back of these two games there really isn’t a lot to complain about from a technical point of view.
I’ve also heard the need to win something in the next 12 months or the team will disband idea.
Not sure I buy that. Trent went to Madrid with a winners medal. We all know Saliba will do the same at some point but our energy is to get another contract out of him before he does that.
Who knows what motivates players to stay or leave and there will always be a certain amount of turnover.
Hopefully Summer recruitment is positive and injuries are not so impacting next season.
I too thought Blogs was harsh in his ratings ( or some of them ) but for the first time I thought MLS struggled and looked a little out of his depth . I agree about Timber he was excellent and has been all season . I thought Trossard and Calafiori improved the side when they came on and I was surprised that we didn’t see Nwaneri .
I think the squad believe in Arteta and feel they have unfinished business . Last night several places suggested that part of our problem was that Edu wasn’t committed to our project in the summer . We won’t know but the enforcement of his full gardening leave is unusual in football and chimes with some comments suggesting all was not well in that area last summer . Berta certainly hhas a key role to play this summer . Expect big news just before they send out the season ticket renewals !
GSD @9, you are spot on about Arteta’s comments and the need for his assertiveness at multiple levels and for multiple constituencies of listeners.
Cannons facing outwards for the rest of the season! Let’s ensure we are back in the CL next season.
I agree with all that 100% TTG @13.
And I agree with Bath @ 13.
Well, 15, or TTG @ 13 then!
Excellent report GSD.
The team has played well in the ECL this year and fully deserved their place in the semi finals. They matched PSG over the2 legs apart from goalkeeping excellence from Donnarumma – just those famous “small margins”.
If Mikel gets the backing of the hierarchy and we sign the right additions in the forward section we can look forward to a very fruitful year next year.
Well done for falling back into line, Ollie.
UTA!
Great match report, GSD! I like to read the reports from this web site and they are positive, balanced and well written. I don’t care what other supporters of other clubs think about us. My team is ARSENAL and it will always will be!
Spare a thought for Arteta who must be bereft today. He coached a patched-up team to a CL semi-final and got a performance out of them that was only three world-class saves from Donnarumma away from winning the tie. It must hurt him deeply to have been so close and yet coming up short because of things outside of his control. And now he has to get a deflated squad ready for Anfield.
TTG@13: I don’t think that MLS is out of his depth, but there have definitely been moments of late, and not just in Paris, where he has struggled, either getting his positioning wrong or making the wrong decisions. At 18, he is obviously learning on the job, and a CL semi-final against one of the most potent attacks in Europe is pretty advanced schooling. Circumstances have dictated that he has played a lot, probably more than Arteta had planned and possibly more than was good for his footballing education as he hasn’t had the time out of the team to work on ironing out the kinks.
Thanks GSD, happy to agree with all of an excellent piece.
Pleased to see MA’s reaction too, I believe he was thinking of the
team as well and wanted to show his pride in all they had done
and avoid any dropped heads over the last three games.
Though having read Ned @21 he may have voiced the same
thought already…
hello @20 to Gooner up north, and I completely
agree – who cares what some pundit who used to play for
some other club thinks. Just noise best ignored.
Still a young team and plenty to come.
Characteristically thoughtful, optimistic and forward looking report GSD! Thank you!
At this level, it all comes down to efficiency at the two boxes. Donaruma was a better shot-stopper over the two legs (doesn’t mean Raya is an inferior keeper, to avoid any misunderstandings), and they were more unerring in their finishes. Among the three goals we conceded, my theory is with Gabriel in the defense we don’t concede the one at Emirates (he blocks that shot making himself bigger and coming out faster) and maybe also not the one scored by Ruiz. Kiwior has played very well — about which I never had any doubt, because he has always been a good defender who just needed a bit of a run in the team — but he is not Gabriel. The Brazilian’s absence has also seen us conceding a surprisingly high number of goal from set-pieces.
This is still a team — and a manager — very much on an upward trajectory as they both evolve. The core group of players, the manager and his coaching team, the tactical foundations, the psychological approach, the leadership in and camaraderie among the group are all strong and complementary. The next steps would be to
1. Retain that core
2. Address the obvious gaps
3. Build a wider squad — both in number and player type diversity
4. Use that wide squad — rotate
4 is evidently dependent on 3 — and as our erstwhile recruiting team sold the manager short (Mikel never gives much away, but both in summer and in winter transfer windows some of his comments were obvious references to hoping for newer signings of the kind he needed) in the last two transfer windows, this coming summer is absolutely pivotal for the club.
The club leadership had made a brave and progressive call in bringing Mikel in and then standing by him even through the darker days. Now is the time to fully act on that courage of conviction, and achieve the remarkable.
When the season started, my theory was that we are better placed for the CL than for PL — I just think CL is systemically less unfair of the two — and our run this season showed that we are very very close to winning it. The fact that we still have the number 2 position in PL in our own hands is actually quite mind-boggling, considering the VAgaRies of fate, and if anything that can only reinforce the self-belief that even the strangest decision making cannot shake. What I mean is that another great CL run next season will actually have a positive influence on the PL results.
I was watching last night’s match on the road, exchanging messages with the junior watching it at home. He was in tears at the end for he had a genuine faith that the team can pull it off. And neither of us can wait for the next CL season to begin.
The next three matches in PL are absolutely vital to not only ensure of that participation, but also to hold on to the second position, which will mean a lot to this group of players in reconfirming to themselves their own pedigree.
I predict Ethan to score at least a goal each in each of these last three matches, coming off the bench. 🙂
& if they hadn’t scored more goals than us, & beaten us twice over 2 legs; minus Dembele (for much of 2nd leg) – we’d’ve won! (Think about that, kidZ …)
I see the gimp is back.
Adam Clery on the PSG game, on the money as usual:
Thanks GSD for an excellent, thoughtful and optimistic piece !
PSG are lethal around the area but to control the majority of the game like we did against that team and that manager in that stadium and atmosphere was a special achievement. There are very few teams that could do that and we did it with no striker and a mainstay centre back missing.
I don’t even feel bad this morning because every one of that team and subs gave their absolute all. Can’t ask more than that.
Arteta has done an absolutely incredible job against all, literally all, odds this season.
He’s transformed the club. When you read the players we were linked with in the summer, and in January, and failed to make the necessary decisions, it puts you in mind of Arsene’s failure to make those decisions in his final years. It also begs the question of how distracted was Edu last summer by his move to Forest.
SP @27 – indeed.
So funny – and clever isn’t he ? ……. isn’t he …?
Nice post @25 Dr F and I agree it would do the players a lot of
good to get decent results against Liverpool and Newcastle
I do like reading Mike
Two days until the Liverpool game of course but the
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the Qtr Finals this week with high octane confrontations
getting underway tomorrow.
Will our current leader take a bath away to er…Bath?
Can the canons take out the sheep? Can Uply slip
past a rampaging dinosaur? And does your own
writer have what it takes to kill a castle full of monks?
These and other important question will be answered by
the final whistle at Anfied on Sunday!
Great comments above. Cannons outwards indeed. Mikel will learn from this, although not nearly as much as the players, who have without exception worked like Trojans this season to make up for the absences and lack of an additional central goalscorer which no doubt the manager wanted. I’m looking forward to next season hugely. I’m also looking forward to Liverpool on Sunday, not least because 21CG and I are on the road and for once it isn’t a stupid o’clock start/return
COYG
Congratulations to Alessia Russo. FWA Women’s Player of the Year.
By the way, Ned @28 – excellent piece by Adam Clery. For a tactical dunce like me, it clarified so much. Perhaps the other dunces engaging in Arteta-outing (not in this place, obviously) and other nonsense could take the time to educate themselves too.
I know. Shouting into the void.
Ben Sheaf and Daniel Ballard, both once of this parish, are on opposite sides for the Chamipionship play offs tonight. Best of luck to them both though either might struggle against Sheff Utd in the final.
Thanks for the links to Adam Clery and Mike Mcdonald. Both spot on.
I found both the attachments very interesting particularly Mike’s very level- headed analysis of the PSG ties . I love Adam Clery’s stuff but I found an inconsistency in what he said – twice
Firstly he said we brought ‘ a knife to a gunfight ‘ which is a comment on Arsenal’s season- we don’t have enough goalscoring power. I agree with that .
But then he said our problem was creativity and then proceeded to show umpteen chances that were created which Donnarumma saved . We were creative enough to create a very high xG – our problem was we don’t score enough actual goals ! His stats about our ranking in the CL for chance taking was instructive . Only 17th .
He then said that PSG scored three goals with very low xG just because they are great finishers . All three goals were brilliantly taken . If you take goals that well do you need to be creative ? Wasn’t the key to this tie that they had brilliant finishers ( and some luck) and we didn’t not that they were more creative than us ppp?
Overall I was reassured that Adam thought we were the better side over the two legs. That was a considerable feat. We just need to bring the gun. I think we left him to fire in Lisbon although I believe Delap may also be on the agenda . Clery also showed how cleverly Arteta created space for Saka by pushing Timber forward so aggressively . We are talking about elite football and we are competing very credibly at the very top level. That is Arteta’s achievement. Keep the faith .
Hugely powerful piece
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/may/09/two-decades-glazers-debt-of-morals-manchester-united?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
C100 – great piece indeed. Thanks for the link.
It cements what we basically already knew but adds some interesting insight into just how badly the fans were treated at the time of the takeover – never more so than by working class man of the people Slur Alex Ferguson.
Despite the more recent tempering of comments about him following his illness, he was always an extremely dislikable, untrustworthy individual – reference his greedy, grasping behaviour over the racehorse that was, after all, gifted to him.
Bathgooner has often quoted the adage in this bar that a fish rots from the head down. Never more true than in the case of United and the Glazers.
Talk of the Devil, Trev, and you get a cheap substitute…
Thanks Ned @28, Sancho Panza @32 and C100 @40 for posting those excellent links. Three great pieces worth everyone’s time.
Mike’s piece is very good. I especially like Goldbridge’s point that UEFA / FIFA didn’t want Arsenal or Barcelona winning the CL because they will not be taking part in their summer extravaganza, the World Club Championship and that cannot gain sufficient respect without the champions of Europe.
Far fetched – one eyed ? You choose. I remember remarking at the time though that it looked a bit suspicious that the head of UEFA was sitting next to the owner of PSG during the game with nobody immediately on either side of them ……..
Still, silly me to even think that FIFA – UEFA – and QATAR could possibly be involved in brown envelopes, Swiss bank accounts, or whatever the modern day equivalent is. And it was, as Mike says, strange that no replay of the Saka penalty claim was ever shown while the MLS “handball” was suddenly and mysteriously recalled ages after it hapoened.
Corruption in football ? Come on ………
Is there a difference between creativity and creating chances? I thought there was. Wanging the ball in from Rory Delap throw is creating a chance but no one would call it particularly creative. Saka creates chances but I wouldn’t call him a creative player. Martin O is a creative midfield player because he can create different types of chances for his team mates and his loss of form has in part reduced our goal tally and thus our general form. I’d like to see another creative player in midfield in the future be that someone we bring in or someone we have in the Academy.
SP @ 44 that’s almost as nitwit illiterate/incomprehensible as one of CER’s needy (I’ve learnt some words … sh – honest, Guv) try too hard posts.
& Trev, in the words of ol’ Neddy(?) : keep up the “bad joke”/s – it’s your fing, Xx!
UTA!
TTG@39: Clerly’s broad point is that we don’t create enough chances and don’t convert enough of those we do. Few who have watched the team recycle the ball around the horseshoe of ennui or tiki-taka-ed back and forth across the edge of the penalty area rather than taking a shot will disagree.
It is also important to remember that there is a loose rather than tight link between xG and creativity (conventionally measured by shots taken). xG is the statistical probability, based on historical data, that a shot taken from a particular position will score. The modelling of xG to take into account the context of the shot (the angle, keeper’s positioning, location of defenders, etc) is getting better as the data set expands and the technology to take more measurements of the context improves, but it is still far from perfect. Decoupling the chance quality from shot execution is one of the biggest gaps xG still has to bridge.
An xG of 0.07 (the Dembele and Hakim goals) means that, on average, one in fourteen attempts of a particular shot will score, and an xG of 0.04 (the Fabian Ruiz goal) is one in 25. An aggregate xG of 0.18 models out to less than one-fifth of a goal; PSG scored three (its overall xG was 2.9). Where does the balance lie between those three shots being statistical outliers and the elite quality of those taking them? We created an xG of 4.83 across the two legs, and scored once. Again, a statistical outlier or below-par finishing? Either way, it’s not going to win you CL semi-finals.
I can understand why Arteta said we were the better team across the two legs of the semi-final. His game plan, tactics, and setup maximised our opportunities to score and minimised PSG’s. It is the basis of his playing philosophy and why he prioritises controlling games. I see what he said post-game, not as arrogance, as it is inevitably being portrayed in some circles, but as a self-realisation of the gap between theory and practice, and what he needs to do to bridge it, which will involve more than just signing an elite centre-forward.
@44, 46 several very fair points.
For me we made enough chances across the two games against PSG and simply didn’t take them so I don’t really agree we weren’t creative enough regardless of how we want to define creativity.
SP’s point about Ode’s reduced output is I think on the money. Can Nwaneri take on a bigger role next season is one of the things for MA to decide. If not then we will need to get someone in as a more regular back up for Ode.
Arsenal Women finished 2nd so well done to them.
4-3 seems to have been entertaining stuff but of
course the big one is still to come.
And well done to Rammy for his clean sheet against Shitteh130.
He has earned Soton their 12th point of the season, now not the
worst ever.
And finally well done to Welbz for 10th league goal of the season.
You could probably have got good odds against Danny ever getting
10 goals in a season again.
And since we’re talking numbers, well done to Matt for the 50.
>>>>>>>