00:00For 22 years a burning desire has festered in this part of North London,
00:05a scratch to be itched, a wound to be healed, if not now then when?
00:13The Emirates Stadium in the late spring twilight, what has been Arsenal's title to lose
00:21is surely now Arsenal's title to go and win, two games ago, two games left, win them both
00:31and Mikel Arteta's team will wear the crown, they may not even need to win both matches
00:38there's been a whole younger generation of Arsenal fans who've not yet experienced a title win
00:44raised on stories of past glories, raised on tales of Wenger's long-zipped coat
00:51of Sylvan Wiltord's late goal to win the league, tales of invincibility,
00:58so many legends forged at the old Highbury Stadium, are the old fables about to get a refresh
01:06are Arsenal going to make their own modern masterpiece to savour for generations ahead?
01:20A couple of steps from greatness, but they could still be difficult strides to take
01:28albeit tonight it is relegated Burnley as the visitors and on Sunday it will be a preoccupied
01:34Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, those are the two games in front of Arsenal in their quest for a first
01:40league title since 2004
01:51Urdegaard, Saka again, he'll try and curl it, and it is deflected for a corner
01:54Well you can see what he's trying to do, it's a great little link-up play
01:58Now Urdegaard, Trossard again, and Havertz!
02:05Arsenal think that should be a corner? Yeah I think it was a corner
02:12And still Leandro Trossard, face of the upright, out again and cleared by Walker
02:22I see him, I'm going inside, I'm going to leave you where you are
02:27and there's the space just opened up on his right foot, a little jink
02:32and he's so unlucky and also it doesn't fall to a red shirt, could go anywhere
02:38Could easily have come back off the post onto the back of the goalkeeper
02:41I was going to say exactly the same, very close to hitting Weiss, wasn't it?
02:45Urdegaard, neat touch back to Eze
02:48Saka
02:53That's where you need Jokeres in the box
02:56Just to head it in, get him off Havertz
02:59Now Fleming as they come the other way and Chowna
03:04Hannibal has made a run into the centre and there is Hannibal Medjbry
03:10Burnley are not without occasional threat
03:12Now that's a brilliant counter-attack by Burnley, I've been impressed with Kurest
03:18Gabriel
03:22Havertz
03:23Saka
03:26Well the crowd feel that it was impeded
03:31Well I'm going to check it obviously, my initial
03:35view on that is no penalties, I think it was behind him
03:39a little bit, you think he's going to score, why didn't he score, maybe that is the key
03:45Just looking at that, not this replay, the other one
03:48just whether or not there's a foot on the ball from Pires
03:51you look at the ball change direction, whether that is contact from Pires
03:55there or whether it's Saka, that's the bit we can't see
03:58It's checked and cleared, no penalty
04:04It's proper mission creep isn't it, by Dixon
04:08The slow motion is
04:10That's the touch, you see he gets a touch with his left foot
04:13The blue of his boot just touches the ball just before the contact on the back of the ankle
04:19from that angle we've just seen
04:21Rice
04:26Calafiore
04:28plenty of suggestions in this game that it is only a matter of time for Arsenal
04:33Rossard
04:37Calafiore
04:39Nurnegaard
04:41only a corner
04:43yeah as soon as it gets pulled back to him
04:46from Calafiore and you see the number eight and the player is going to shoot you look you're
04:51just standing up going goal look at the space edge of the box he's free screaming for it
04:59in the conventional corner this time
05:01and it's heading in
05:06Arsenal would take perfectly by Kai Havert
05:12and 37 minutes of rising increasing tension dissipates in the space of a second
05:20it's Arsenal's motif goal from a corner
05:24well sometimes you soften a team up by doing something they're not used to short corners
05:29do you know what we'll go back to the long one and we'll stick it right in the under the
05:34crossbar
05:36early on in Mikel Arteta's tenure
05:40Abbott
05:42Saka
05:44he'll try and curl it and that was not very far away
05:48yeah they're enjoying their football now
05:50they have plenty of room to to work with
05:53but failed to even get close to picking out his teammate
05:57Jake Nanfenig
06:01alongside him
06:02decided to go it alone
06:06Calafiore quickly onto Trossard
06:16reverse pass for Calafiore
06:20the face of Havertz
06:22it's from the back of Lucas Pires
06:25Declan Rice
06:32Moscara
06:35Eze
06:36I must not say that got a touch the referee does not agree
06:49Calafiore
06:53Trossard
06:54chipped in from Havertz
06:56Eze
06:58headed it into the back of Esteve
07:02concerning thing is
07:03that if Arsenal were playing against a team with better quality
07:07that have been punished
07:09with some of the positions Burnley have gone to and lack that quality
07:12I know it's a
07:14theoretical point rather than the reality but
07:16they've not played particularly well Arsenal
07:18you know we're expecting them to be really
07:21dominant create a lot of chances keep the energy levels up but
07:26been a few uh few concerns
07:29some of the
07:30periods of the game that have allowed Burnley to to look a bit more comfortable than they should
07:34yellow card for Kai Havertz
07:38oh that's high
07:40hadn't seen that before
07:42other than from now we've seen it that angle look how high this is
07:45that's right in the back of his shin
07:47he could be in a spot of bothering
07:49I think this is
07:52there's no attempt to play the ball the ball's gone
07:54that's the thing they'll be looking at and it's high
07:57he could be in trouble here
07:59it is going to stay as a yellow card
08:01I mean he has absolutely got away with one there
08:05that nowhere near the ball
08:08halfway up his leg and it's and he's got all not not that this is particular is particularly relevant but
08:14he's got all his weight on that leg as well
08:16that is a dangerous challenge
08:19I think
08:20I think the thing that VAR have missed here is the fact how far away from the ball he is
08:26there's no attempt to play that ball he's trying to bring him down he brings him down halfway up his
08:31calf
08:31I think he's a lucky boy
08:34Declan Rice
08:37Dwanzebe
08:39fairly sweetly by Trossard
08:43Mosquera
08:51breaks through and crosses to no one in particular
08:55Laurent
09:00there's the whistle
09:03if Arsenal win at the Palace they'll be crowned at the Palace
09:09or if Manchester City fail to win a Gorma tomorrow
09:14Arsenal will be champions of the Premier League just 24 hours from now
09:20five points the gap between the Gunners and the challengers Manchester City
09:27City have to be faultless and Arsenal have to slip
09:33if that doesn't happen the Gunners will be champions
09:37Lee Dixon for the first time in 22 years but my word it was a nervy old night
09:44well we all thought before the game well I was hoping before the game it was going to be a
09:48cruise and they come out firing
09:50but Burnley to be fair to have made it difficult they created a couple of chances early on in the
09:55game
09:55and it all looked like it was settling down but 1-0 to the Arsenal we've heard it before
10:00and these fans will be hoping to hear it again on Sunday but it might actually go
10:06tomorrow night depending on what City do and I think overall at the moment
10:11you have to say they've deserved the win tonight they've put Burnley under a lot of pressure
10:16they were under a lot of pressure but they've delivered
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