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Full Record of Spurs -v- Arsenal
Prem Pl W D L For-Ag Pts
Home 22 7 10 5 30 -30 31
Away 22 2 7 13 22 -44 13
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Total(Prem) 44 9 17 18 52 -74 44
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Football Lge
Home(Div 1) 55 24 12 19 93 -83 63
Away(Div 1) 55 16 12 27 65 -85 46
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Total(Div 1) 110 40 24 46 158 -168 109
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Total(Prem) 44 9 17 18 52 -74 44
Total(Div 1) 110 40 24 46 158 -168 109
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Grand Total 154 49 41 64 210 -242 153
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Last Six Premier League results:-
Arsenal - WWDDDW
Norwich 0-2 Arsenal
Arsenal 2-1 C. Palace
Everton 2-2 Arsenal
Leicester 1-1 Arsenal
Arsenal 2-2 Man City
A. Villa 0-3 Arsenal
Spurs - WWWLDL
Spurs 3-0 A. Villa
West Ham 0-1 Spurs
Spurs 4-0 QPR
Spurs 0-3 Liverpool
S'derland 2-2 Spurs
Spurs 0-1 West Brom
Pos P W D L F-A GD Pts
4. Arsenal 5 2 3 0 10-6 4 9
9. Spurs 5 2 1 2 7-6 1 7
Spurs looking for so much
Spurs travel to The Emirates Stadium tomorrow looking for so much. You can include the following items in your wish list for the game:-
1. Only the second win over Arsenal at this stadium, where they have now been playing for 8 years.
2. Our first goal against Arsenal in four games. We lost three times last season. Both home and away 1-0 in the Premier League, and 2-0 in the FA Cup Third Round in January.
3. Only our third away win against Arsenal in our 23rd attempt in the Premier League. The first of those was at the end of the 92-93 season, when Arsenal had an FA Cup Final to think about, having beaten us in the semi-final, gaining revenge for the "Gazza" game in 1991.
4. Only our tenth Premier League win over them in 45 attempts.
5. Only our fiftieth league win over our enemy in a total of 155 league meetings.
6. Our first win in any league game, since we thrashed Queens Park Rangers on August 24th.
Our first choice striker, Emmanuel Adebayor has only scored one of our seven league goals so far. Tomorrow would be a good day for him to score against his old club, which he has done before. Once in November 2012, when he got sent off a few minutes later, and we ultimately lost 5-2. he also scored from the penalty spot in another 5-2 defeat in February, 2012. In September, 2009, Adebayor famously ran the length of the Manchester City pitch to celebrate a goal against his old side. He won't be flavour of the month tomorrow. There are still plenty of Spurs fans who are not enamoured with him, with something like a "goal a game" killer striker on their wish list this summer.
It's four years now since we did win at The Emirates (Arsenal 2 Spurs 3) in a match which was decided by Younes Kaboul's header with 5 minutes of the game remaining. Only Aaron Lennon survives out of the squad of players who represented us that day. Mind you, Arsenal's squad has also been radically changed in that time. Four years is such a long time these days in the life of any Premier League team.
So, joy for a Spurs fan at The Emirates is a commodity that has been in very, very short supply. Our pain comes at a big price too, with our pockets being lightened to the tune of £64 for one of the worst away seats in the Premier League, confined as we are in the lower tier.
Yet, we clamour in our hordes for the right to watch. That's market forces at work for you!
Spurs head coach Mauricio Pochettino says it his ambition to emulate Arsene Wenger's longevity in charge of a club. Wenger has seen off 12 Spurs managers, and smiled at the end of most games in that time, certainly when at home.
Pochettino has said his players must be "brave", and "to be aggressive, focused and show all that you have inside". We haven't seen that in recent games. Such bravery had better not venture into the realms of recklessness either. Despite an alleged injury crisis affecting the Arsenal defence, that seems to have eased with the news that Mertesacker and Gibbs are ready to return, and that Flamini will probably cover at full back, with former Southampton player Calum Chambers also likely to get a start.
Arsenal signed Danny Welbeck from Man Utd, partly because of the injury to Giroud, who is out for three months, but they also have Chile's Alexis Sanchez, who has already scored 4 goals for his new club in all games.
Theo Walcott, who so famously goaded the Spurs fans as he was being stretchered off in that FA Cup defeat in January is still 4 weeks away from fitness, but there will be no love lost between our fans, and their fans, and their players, as usual. The question, as always, is does the game mean as much to our players as it should?
So, hands up those Spurs players in tomorrow's squad who know how to beat Arsenal? That's you, Kaboul, and you Aaron Lennon. One or both may not even start, with Pochettino having to choose from four fit defenders. Mind you, one of them (Vertonghen) has declared he won't be signing a new contract. His current one lasts till June 30th 2016, but will his passion (if any) for the club last that long. Would it be enough for tomorrow?
Hands up those of you who think we will win tomorrow. No-one? No, me neither. The trouble is, having thrown three points away last week against moderate opposition, we have given ourselves a catch up situation for a while to come this season, with Man City our next away venture next month.
Tomorrow's match referee is Michael Oliver, who I do rate as one of the best on the Premier League list, although Spurs Odyssey readers did not like him last time out with us, when we lost 4-0 at Stamford Bridge in March.
· Spurs' record in recent London Derby matches
· 10 years ago this week, we lost 1-0 at home to Man Utd.
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