Slick performance embarrasses naive neighbours.

Watching the first half at White Hart Lane brought back memories of the first half at home to Barcelona last season but, thankfully, we were the team delivering the lesson this time.

From the first whistle Jack Wilshere demanded the ball and used it impeccably. It's hard not to get excited by his potential and he finished the game with two assists and a growing reputation. It was a measure of his performance that, in a half which we completely dominated, he was one of our few standout players. He pulled the strings to such an extent that the rest of our team, who by no means played poorly, were reduced to a blur of interchanging red shirts, bewildering a static Spurs side.

It didn't take long for our quick interchanges to open up the opposition and in the 13th minute, neat play between Tomas Rosicky and Gael Clichy released Wilshere down the inside left channel and he fired a perfect ball across the face of goal for the on-rushing Henri Lansbury to stab home. Wilshere continued to orchestrate a master class in pass and move for the rest of the half, despite their best efforts to kick him off the pitch. Our young prodigy showed remarkable maturity to stay calm but, frustratingly, he could not inspire the second goal that we deserved before the interval.

Spurs introduced Robbie Keane and Aaron Lennon for the second half and almost immediately Robbie Keane broke clear and stroked the ball into the bottom corner. Unfortunately he was offside and the man with 9 lives proved that it's the only resemblance he has to a cat as he reacted poorly to palm the weak shot into the corner. Lukasz Fabianski is a liability and Wenger's patience with him is completely unjustified. No wonder Wojciech Szczesny has warned that he will be forced to leave if he does not get a chance.

It was a night to be cheerful though and despite a slightly ineffective second half, we started the first period of extra time in exciting fashion. First Samir Nasri and then Chamakh were pulled back in the area when through on goal and Nasri dispatched both penalties in style to seal the tie within the 100 minute mark. Wilshere still had time to take a quick free quick for the fast thinking Arshavin to run on to and fire into the far corner to complete the scoring.

Nasri stole the man of the match from Wilshere by virtue of his penalty taking prowess, which we were cheated of at Sunderland but really, Jack Wilshere was the main cause of our White Hart Lane revenge.

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