Mustafi has done his hamstring. Good god can we just catch a single break in this game

Oh wow. Mustafi. Hamstring? Any defenders left?

I wish our full backs would sometimes just smash it at goal when they get in behind. Always looking for the cut back when they can even see the whites of the his eyes.

How have Huddersfield still got 11 men?

Arsenalhavent been great but we haven’t been allowed to get any rhythm due to the continuous fouling. If that’s what Huddersfield want to do that is fine but the ref has to punish it. Early yellow cards kill off a huge part of a high press.

People blaming the refereeing but we've been shite today.

I hope Özil's back spasm or whatever it is sorts itself out soon.

The two don’t have to be mutually exclusive

There should be at least 6+ minutes added on here. Of course there won’t be

Again a late tackle on an arsenal player but because arsenal can play on the ref forgets the foul

3rd yellow card for diving. Some refs don’t understand the concept that it doesn’t have to be a penalty or a dive....things can happen that are neither

They don't but we should be capable of much better.

3rd yellow for simulation for us. Not good

Those two first half misses looking very significant right now.

I think the ref got two of those three right.

Really poor to go down when you are past the defender in the box.

Torreira!!!!

Wrong choice of words but I'm still scared of them going unbeaten.

Torreira!!!!!!!!

Goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Torreira!!!!!!!!!

Phew!!!

Silken skills from Aubamayang there.

Lovely ball from Guendouzi, wonderful control from Aubameyang then he stands it up and Torreira with a rather splendid over head kick for 1-0

Phew! Thank god for that. Finally.

Stay focused now. See this to its end without conceding.

Now Huddersfield benefit from all the timewasting with the added time....

Get the second and put these anti football teams to bed.

Torreira?

With more than a little help from Aubameyang

So the ref can see that two players can come together in the box and it doesn’t have to be a pen or a dive. So inconsistent

Hey ho. 7 minutes

Depoitre should get a yellow all day, and yet this referee don't want to give it.

But there was a strong shoulder there. It wasn't a dive. At least two of ours were.

Awful performance but three points. Put that one to bed and move on.

Hard earned 3 points.

Sounds good.

Running out of players a bit though

We didn't get going at all, but we still won.

That'll do me.

Full time. 1-0
Poor poor game. Leggy and lack of creativity. These slow starts are especially against such weak opposition just mean that we only really give ourselves 45 minutes to beat them.

I fully expect to read match reports about how the result it ‘harsh’ on Huddersfield- rubbish. One team came to win and play football the other came to kick, spoil, defend and waste time. Arsenal clearly a deserved winner. I’m sure if that argument is put to lower league managers or fans of those teams they will come back with the childish “shall we just let arsenal play their pretty football and beat us 4-0 then?” - which totally misses the point. Teams can play however they want as long as it is within the rules of the game - if they can’t do that the ref needs to officiate the game properly

Grateful we got the job done - but I was impressed with Huddersfield who scrapped for their lives. Defensive crisis looming now though, with Mustafi injured and Sokratis suspended. If Emery sticks with a 3 it'll be Lichtsteiner, Nacho and Kos. At a push Elneny could play there as well.

You're being harsh on Huddersfield Rich. That would have been a fantastic point for them if they'd held out. And as for playing to the rules, we got three yellows for diving.

1
Liverpool
16 28 42
2
Man City
15 38 41
3
Arsenal
16 15 34
4
Tottenham
15 12 33

I like it. Top club in London.

What a frustrating game, Huddersfield got it right where they wanted. Well deserved win without playing well, I'll take it. Not losing any ground in the table and possibly (probably) pulling away from Chelsea a bit.

As I said in a previous post, it was always going to be tough getting up for this match after 2 big matches. The big worry now is fielding an XI good enough to get a win at Soton.

My point is that they set out for a 0-0, but for poor finishing, twice, a dodgy offside call on Lacazette we would have beaten them very well. Huddersfield tactics for a 0-0 shouldn't include relying on the ref or woeful Arsenal finishing.
Put it this way, if Huddersfield and Arsenal's roles were completely reversed in that game would Arsenal have been deemed unlucky when Huddersfield finally got the winner their play deserved? The narrative would have been Huddersfield dominated a foul happy Arsenal and deservedly won the game and could/should have won by more. The reports will take in to account the standings of the two teams but if you judge the game on 11 v11 players then Huddersfield didn't deserve a draw. Teams have shown that you can go away to a big team and compete with them playing within the rules (wolves for example were fantastic) and I've seen excellent performances at the Emirates from the likes of Swansea and Wigan in the past. I detest the tactics of continuous fouling and cheating to disrupt any flow to the game - this can be done within the rules of the game. It irks me even more that these tactics continued to be celebrated and tolerated by refs.