ARSENAL have the chance to secure Champions League football for the first time in FIVE years when they travel to Tottenham Hotspur tonight.
Spurs went to Anfield and picked up a well-earned point over quadruple chasing Liverpool last weekend. But it didn’t mean much in the grand scheme of things as the Gunners’ hard-fought victory over Leeds opened up a four point gap in the hunt for fourth spot.
However, Antonio Conte’s side’s performance will have given Spurs the confidence to go and salvage something from this in-form Arsenal side.
- Start time: 7.45pm BST
- TV/Live stream: Sky Sports Premier League
- Tottenham XI: Lloris, Royal, Sanchez, Dier, Davies, Sessegnon, Bentancur, Hojbjerg, Kulusevski, Son, Kane
- Arsenal XI: Ramsdale, Tomiyasu, Holding, Gabriel, Cedric, Xhaka, Elneny, Odegaard, Martinelli, Nketiah
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Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal
59. Ramsdale makes a great save to deny Emerson Royal.
With a name that sounds like a cigarette brand found only in Spain but it was almost on the scoresheet.
Let off for the visitors.
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Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal
57. It is not as if the away fans can say they are leaving as its a long trip back home and they have work in the morning.
They are here for this entire car crash.
Tottenham knocking the ball around at their own leisure.
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Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal
55. Here is an idea for anyone looking to make their millions.
Get down to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in time for the end of the game.
Pitch up a stall by the away end selling ‘Invincibles’ DVD’s and merchandise.
You will make a fortune!
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Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal
53. There is over half an hour left in this game.
Usually you could say maybe a goal or two and Arsenal can find a way back into this game.
The fact they have had a player sent-off makes the task all the more impossible.
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Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal
51. A rare Arsenal foray in the Tottenham box.
It almost falls to Saka to slot home but is cleared in a last-ditch challenge.
Arsenal have a corner.
Whipped in and an easy catch for Lloris.
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Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal
49. This could be a cricket score.
Arteta looks lost on the touchline.
Wondering what he can do to change things.
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Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal
47. Arsenal are all over the place defensively.
More intent wrestling Kane than clearing the ball, it breaks free to Son in front of goal.
He clips it into the top corner.
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Goal – Son Heung-Min (Tottenham)
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Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
46. There is no beating about the bush.
Arsenal need a goal in the first 15 minutes of this half.
If Tottenham catch them with another it is damage limitation time.
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Kick-off: Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
And Conte’s team get the second half started.
They have the chance to put their rivals to the sword here.
An early goal and this could be a bloodbath.
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HT: Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
Arteta will be wondering what options he has to change this game.
They need to come out of the traps and go out the home side.
Easier said than done when your opponents have a man advantage.
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HT: Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
The last time a group of Arsenal players looked so unstable in North London Adams, Parlour, Merson, Keown and Winterburn were all pouring out of a club.
Arteta’s side were hurt by that Kane penalty and hit the self-destruct button.
What they would give for some of those players in their current line-up.
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HT: Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
The referee brings the half to a close.
Like a heavyweight prize fight, the favourite looked good in the early rounds.
Then sucker punched as their poor defence allowed danger through they finished the round a bit leggy on the ropes.
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Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
45. It looks like we will have two additional minutes.
Arsenal are starting to come around slightly.
Martinelli seems like the sort of person who always has two seats to himself on the team bus after games.
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Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
43. Arsenal manage to get themselves a corner as Nketiah tries his luck and Lloris tips it over.
A possible way back into this game.
The corner fails to beat the first man.
Like a decorator painting your windows.
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Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
41. Conte still looks like he is wondering how is going to get to Paris and hunt down the kidnappers with such little information still.
Meanwhile his team are running riot on the pitch.
Arteta is daydreaming of his happy place, holding Pep’s hand on that Man City bench taking about tapas and sangria.
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Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
39. I haven’t seen anyone fold like this Arsenal team since the World Origami Championships in Seoul ’88.
Arsenal look very nervous.
The half-time whistle cannot come soon enough.
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Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal
37. This is turning into a horror show for Arsenal.
The corner is whipped in and flicked on to the back post.
Kane is lurking and stoops down to head home.
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Goal – Harry Kane (Tottenham)
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Tottenham 1-0 Arsenal
35. Arsenal are in danger of imploding.
Everything is going the way of Antonio Conte’s side at the moment.
More worryingly, Arsenal are the architects of their own problems.
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Tottenham 1-0 Arsenal
33. A clipped ball over the top of the Arsenal defence.
As Son takes on Holding a foot race, the defender blocks him off with a forearm and he goes to ground.
Having already been booked, it’s ‘taxi for Holding’ time!
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Red card – Rob Holding (Arsenal)
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Tottenham 1-0 Arsenal
31. Elneny gives the ball away to Kulusevski.
Arteta needs his players to stand firm until half time.
They also need to manage their temperament.
At this rate they will have more cards than a Vegas magic act soon.
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Tottenham 1-0 Arsenal
29. Xhaka tries his luck from distance after scoring a screamer from distance at The Emirates the other week.
Granted, that is not a regular occurrence.
It would be like Sir Isaac Newton expecting to discover something as ground-breaking as gravity every week.
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Tottenham 1-0 Arsenal
27. The Tottenham fans all join in for a rendition of ‘Oh when the Spurs go marching in’.
Conte’s side growing in confidence.
Side note, how are Southampton not getting some copyright infringement case involved with that song?
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