We got here from a purpose behind to beat Tottenham Hotspur to string collectively three straight north London derby wins in a row for the primary time since 1989, and extra importantly shut the hole on Liverpool on the high of the Premier League desk.

Spurs threatened to say their first win on our turf in 14 years when son Heung-min out them forward towards the run of play on 25 minutes, however we battled again and netted twice in 4 minutes simply earlier than the interval via a Dominic Solanke personal purpose and a Leandro Trossard strike.

We dominated our neighbours for almost all of the sport together with just about the entire second half, however with out netting a killer third purpose we needed to grind out the win, however it arrived to maneuver us again into second place, and now solely 4 factors off the league leaders.

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An early setback – by some means

Mikel Arteta had known as for a cauldron-like ambiance inside Emirates Stadium and he obtained simply that in the course of the opening levels, and pushed alongside by the swarths of help, we dominated the early levels.

Spurs headed into the sport with one win of their final eight matches, and it confirmed within the fist 20 minutes. They accomplished simply 4 passes in our half throughout that interval, and certainly their keeper Antonin Kinsky had probably the most touches for his facet, however we couldn’t flip that stress right into a purpose.

Trossard got here closest when he noticed a goalbound shot cannon off the again of a defender after a nook wasn’t cleared, and Kinsky twice had the ball nicked from by Kai Havertz however each occasions possession by some means stayed with Ange Postecoglu’s facet.

However after surviving the opening levels, Spurs all of a sudden constructed up a head of steam. A superb problem from Gabriel prevented Son from changing a Djed Spence centre, and from the ensuing nook David Raya made a very good block to thwart Dejan Kulusevski.

Nonetheless one other set-piece on 24 minutes can be our undoing. A brief nook was despatched right into a congested space by Pedro Porro, and after it was cleared to the sting of the realm, Son was lurking and despatched a shot again via the our bodies, and aided by a deflection discovered the online for the eighth time within the derby.

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Arteta’s pleasure at giving our followers one other derby win

Swift turnaround

The sport turned extra of a fair contest after that, however we saved probing and a stroke of luck noticed us get degree. On 38 minutes Trossard and Porro challenged for the ball on the byline and regardless of the ball flicking off the Belgian, we had been awarded the nook – and we made probably the most of it.

Declan Rice swung it in the direction of the again put up the place Gabriel had powered his means in the direction of, and he obtained a contact on the ball which deflected off Dominic Solanke and spun into the online to get us again degree and lift the decibel degree in north London as soon as once more.

And it reached a crescendo 4 minutes later after we turned the sport on its head by snatching the lead. A robust problem by Thomas Partey gained the ball on the midway line and he discovered Martin Odegaard, who performed a pleasant cross into the galloping Trossard’s path. He took two touches to get it to the sting of the field, and drilled it low and exhausting previous Kinsky to ship the derby spinning in the wrong way.

With the stadium bouncing and the wind in our sails, we didn’t need half-time to come back, however though we had been pressured to move into the altering rooms, we got here again out displaying the identical vigour.

Getting over the road

Havertz went near sending one other nook into the online when he nodded an Odegaard supply simply broad, after which the German headed straight at Kimsky when picked out in house by Partey.

One participant having fun with his first style of the derby was Lewis Myles-Skelly. Regardless of being the second-youngest Gunner to begin in a Premier League north London derby, he regarded assured in defence, repeatedly scrapping away to win possession for his facet after which confidently striding ahead with the ball to begin assaults.

They usually saved coming for the hosts however we’d be denied by Kimsky twice in fast succession on 72 minutes. Rice fizzed one at him which struck him within the chest, earlier than Odegaard swiftly adopted up with a low effort which was saved by the Czech keeper.

Our skipper once more went shut with six minutes to go when Kieran Tierney threaded a cross to him contained in the field however he screwed it broad of the mark, however with the lead intact it was nearly grinding it out.

Like many of the second 45, Spurs provided little risk however within the last minute of stoppage time, Porro wrapped a shot from a decent angle off the surface the put up, however we noticed out the ultimate few seconds to stretch our unbeaten league run to 11, report our fifth Premier League double over Spurs and clinch the derby day bragging rights – once more.

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Lewis-Skelly after derby: “I can’t cease smiling!”

FACTS AND STATS

We have now executed the Premier League double over Tottenham for a fifth time (twice below Mikel Arteta and thrice below Arsene Wenger). We’ve now achieved the double 4 extra occasions than Spurs within the competitors, who’ve solely ever executed so within the inaugural season in 1992/93.

Tottenham have misplaced 11 league video games this season; their joint-most at this stage of a single marketing campaign within the competitors. The one sides who’ve misplaced extra this time period are the three groups at the moment within the relegation zone (Wolves, Leicester, Southampton).

This was the eleventh time the workforce scoring first within the north London derby within the Premier League have gone on to lose, with seven of these being by Tottenham.

We have now scored 26 targets from corners within the Premier League because the begin of final season; probably the most of any workforce. 4 of these have been netted towards Spurs, which can also be probably the most nook targets a workforce have scored towards a particular opponent on this interval.

Son Heung-min has now scored eight Premier League targets towards us, with solely former teammate Harry Kane (14) ever netting extra in north London derbies within the competitors.

Dominic Solanke’s personal purpose was the sixth that Tottenham have scored towards us within the Premier League, with this the third successive season through which they’ve put via their very own web towards us.

Within the type of Myles Lewis-Skelly, Archie Grey and Lucas Bergvall, this was the primary time as many as three gamers aged 18 or youthful had been named as starters in a north London derby within the Premier League.

What’s subsequent

Our run of dwelling matches continues as Aston Villa head to N5 on Saturday for a 5.30pm kick-off, after which the Champions League returns in every week’s time when Dinamo Zagreb arrive on matchday seven of the competitors. We comply with that up with a visit to Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, January 25.