The Swiss international was made a scapegoat for the points dropped at home as many also exposed his incompatibility in regular games for Arsenal as well.
Xhaka made a poor judgement in his own box, lunged in with both his feet and gave Tottenham a penalty in the first half. Harry Kane converted from the spot and increased Spurs’ advantage to 2 goals before half-time.
Arsenal had to climb their way back into the game with 25 scoring attempts but could not manage a winner. Many believe it was Xhaka’s one mistake which might have cost the Gunners all three points at the Emirates.
But statistically, it was revealed that the midfielder had a poor game overall. He had registered 7 errors prior to the penalty incident and that was only in the first half.
“Of course critics are always here,” he said. “The north London derby, I think we had a good game. I made a mistake with the penalty but if you saw the game, we could have won.
“We had a lot of chances but this is football. Nobody speaks about the chances, nobody speaks about how many we missed. They always speak about the mistakes. This is part of football.”
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