Arsenal have managed another emphatic win, this time against Watford, this week and it was pretty enjoyable to watch, but what did we learn?
3Arsenal have cajones – Deeney does not
Arsenal fans were cackling at Troy Deeney for most of the match. After his ‘cajones’ comments back in October, you would have thought he would come out fighting, but he didn’t.
“I’ve heard Wenger’s already blaming (the decision) as the reason why they lost. I’m not going to be the one to tell Mr Wenger about himself, but there’s a reason why they lost and it wasn’t because of one penalty,” Deeney said last year, after Watford beat Arsenal 2-1.
“I’ll have to watch what I say. It’s (having) a bit of cojones, a bit of nuts.”
Rob Holding and Mustafi bullied Deeney throughout Arsenal’s 3-0 win on Sunday and all the striker could do is sit on the floor flapping his arms at the referee.
It only got funnier when the 29-year-old came forward to take a penalty in the second half and kicked it weakly at Petr Cech.
Penalties faced by Petr Čech at Arsenal:
Vardy ❌
Messi ❌
Snodgrass ❌
Defoe ❌
Adam ❌
Wilson ❌❌
Gray ❌
Kane ❌❌
Lukaku ❌
Deeney ❌
Agüero ❌
Rodriguez ❌
Hazard ❌
Deeney (again) ✅#afc pic.twitter.com/1AQVZfi0iA— afcstuff (@afcstuff) March 11, 2018
Not only is this hilarious because of Deeney’s comments but Cech has mostly been poor this season and has failed to save a single penalty since he joined Arsenal in 2015.
The spot-kick was so bad that even the 35-year-old, who almost threw the ball directly to a Watford player earlier that same game, was able to save it.
Amazingly, Cech is now the first goalkeeper in the history of the Premier League to (finally) keep 200 clean sheets and it was all because of Deeney’s penalty.
I’m not sure whether you call that karma, modern art or just pure comedy but whatever it was, I liked it.