This was a night when cool heads were needed. A night that should have happened in January but ended up taking place in May.
In the end, there is a certain irony that it was a Spurs player who would not have played on that original night but ended up being Arsenal's chief tormentor four months later. Son Heung-min was out with a hamstring injury at the start of the year, yet on Thursday night he caused Arsenal and defender Rob Holding, who lived up to both of his names, all manner of problems.
Son was pushed, shoved, held, kicked in the back and eventually had a shoulder smashed in his face, but he kept on going and he won the war. One of the best assists of the night might just have been from Harry Kane to stop the South Korean star reacting to one of Holding's many dubious moments of defending. The Tottenham striker got in between his team-mate and the Arsenal man, also swatted away Cedric like a fly, and prevented Son from reacting in a way he and Spurs might have regretted.
