Calum Chambers has talked up Arsenal’s resilience and character, as the pendulum swung back in their favour with Wednesday’s 2-1 Capital One Cup win at Tottenham Hotspur and , rather abruptly, everything felt a whole lot better for them.
Arsène Wenger had made Chambers one of 10 changes to the team that had lost at Chelsea last Saturday and it was lost on no one that the previous time he had rotated heavily – at Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League last Wednesday, when he made six – they had lost.
Chambers was generally solid, in only his third appearance of the season, but he blotted his copybook with the 56th-minute own goal that gave Tottenham their equaliser . At that point, Tottenham looked the better bet for victory and the thought occurred that Arsenal could travel to in-form Leicester City on Saturday on the back of three straight losses for the first time since 2010.
Yet they toughed out a victory against a Tottenham team that also featured wholesale changes, with Mathieu Flamini scoring a stunning late volleyed winner for his second goal of the evening.
“We were resilient,” Chambers said. “At times, we got a lot of pressure but we were compact and together as a team. We knew our jobs. We defended well at those points. The second half said a lot about the character and belief of the lads.
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