- Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was full of pride after their thumping win over Tottenham.
The Gunners completed an incredible comeback as they recovered from a two-goal deficit to win 5-2 in the Barclays Premier League clash at the Emirates Stadium.
"Today showed Arsenal is alive more than anyone thought before the game," Wenger said.
"We had an emphatic performance today where on the spirit and technical side, and the drive of the whole team and style of the way we want to play, everything was perfect despite a very bad start.
"I felt in the first five minutes, Spurs started well. It was all us for the next 85 minutes. We were 2-0 down and just refused to lose the game and kept going no matter what happened.
"Once we were back to 2-2, you saw that if we maintained the pace we would win the game.
"There was a good balance between offence and defence, between creativity and going into the space behind their defenders and we showed good maturity. We had a great spirit."
- Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger feels they can still finish above Tottenham after yesterday’s massive derby win.
The Gunners now also lie just seven points shy of third-placed Tottenham and Wenger believes his side could yet end the season above them.
"It is still possible, if we keep our run going," the Frenchman said. "Why not?
"But before the game it was 'impossible'. I always thought it was possible, but it would be down to consistency. Everybody in the Premier League can lose points.
"They have a different schedule to us, but if we continue to play like that, then why not?"
- Bacary Sagna says Arsenal's victory over Tottenham can help them finish above their North London rivals.
The fullback claims that it is possible to overthrow Harry Redknapp’s side, but only if they take one game at a time and don’t focus on what can happen at the end of the season.
“Of course we can catch them,” Sagna said. “We just need to play game-by-game without thinking about what will happen at the end of the season.
“We still have time to come back. We have dropped points and now we have to stay professional and play like we did today.
“We are not far, we have to keep playing and focus on every game until the end of the season and we will make it.”
- Arsenal ace Theo Walcott says they've handed Tottenham a reality check after yesterday’s 5-2 thumping.
The two-goal England star defied the Gunners' boo-boys, who had turned nasty after Spurs went 2-0 up.
Walcott said: "We showed great character in the first half, going two down when they were playing on the counter-attack.
"But, hopefully, we've brought them back down to earth."
- Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was full of pride after their thumping win over Tottenham.
The Gunners completed an incredible comeback as they recovered from a two-goal deficit to win 5-2 in the Barclays Premier League clash at the Emirates Stadium.
"Today showed Arsenal is alive more than anyone thought before the game," Wenger said.
"We had an emphatic performance today where on the spirit and technical side, and the drive of the whole team and style of the way we want to play, everything was perfect despite a very bad start.
"I felt in the first five minutes, Spurs started well. It was all us for the next 85 minutes. We were 2-0 down and just refused to lose the game and kept going no matter what happened.
"Once we were back to 2-2, you saw that if we maintained the pace we would win the game.
"There was a good balance between offence and defence, between creativity and going into the space behind their defenders and we showed good maturity. We had a great spirit."
- Arsenal hero Martin Keown hailed the performance of Tomas Rosicky in victory over Tottenham.
Keown wrote: "That is the best I have seen Tomas Rosicky play for Arsenal. He’s been a spectator this season until now but he played with so much drive and purpose.
"For his goal he made a run he would never have normally, darting into the box. He looked to play decisive passes, was tenacious in the tackle and looked like the player Arsenal signed in 2006. An all-action performance."
- Arsenal winger Theo Walcott admits he could hear the boo-boys before their fight- back againstTottenham.
Walcott admitted his first-half showing was poor but insisted he showed the guts to see the job through after the break.
He declared: "You always have to get on with the game when things are not going too well.
"I can hold my hands up and say I didn't have the greatest of first halves. But it just shows the character, not just from me but the team.
"If you work hard, hopefully good things will come to you. And it happened for me."
- Arsenal are ready to smash their wage ceiling to convince skipper Robin van Persie to stay.
Arsenal are ready to offer Robin van Persie an unprecedented pay deal, thought to be worth more than £150,000 a week and far in excess of what had previously been expected, in a bid to keep the striker next season.
The offer is likely to include a signing-on fee of about £5million in addition to a wage packet of more than £130,000 a week, which would comprise a record deal for an Arsenal player - though the club are aware that Van Persie's decision will not be wholly down to the money on offer but by the future prospects of the club.
- Arsenal are confident of landing German pair Lukas Podolski and Mario Goetze in the summer - if they can qualify for the Champions League.
Arsenal seal a Champions League qualification, there is a feeling that they can reconstruct a great team, with Borussia Dortmund star midfielder Goetze and Cologne's Podolski likely additions.
Podolski is keen to join while Arsenal are currently in pole position to sign Goetze. But that could all change if they do not make the top four.
- Montpellier striker Olivier Giroud is chasing a move to Arsenal.
Giroud has 16 goals this term and is rated at £13million.
The France star said: "I like the Frenchy feel at Arsenal."
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