With Noble missing through injury it was always going to be an uphill task, and early on we didn't understand that giving Bale the chance to shoot with his left foot wasn't a good idea.
Somehow we got back in the game and for a period looked the better team, but Nolan's injury cost us an attacking option.
Carroll was trying his best even though the guy lacks any real skill apart from jumping for headers, taking 3-4 touches to tee the ball up for a shot really doesn't work against Premier defences.
Joe Cole showed some class when he had the chance, Jarvis looked good in the first half and even O'Neil had a reasonable game.
But the spuds kept piling forward and luckily Jussi had his best game for us saving 4-5 almost certain goals.
Joe Cole scored on the break and for a while we managed to keep them at bay, but then for some reason fat Sam took off Demel and brought on Pogotetz? who was pretty useless years ago and even worse now, sort of an Austrian Gary Breen, O'Brien had kept Lennon quite for most of the game but he was switched to Right back leaving Lennon the freedom of the park.
The equaliser was scrappy but Bale's winner was quality just such a shame that we managed to last out till the last minute before he hit the unstoppable one :(
If I was in Wenger's shoes on Sunday I'd remind them that a Bale-less Tottenham are probably mid-table mediocrity and let them work it out.
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