Arsenal V Tottenham: Premier League – Live

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Mikel Arteta would make a bully assassin. Reserved and meticulous, bellicose and monomaniacal, his remorseless relentlessness is precisely what you’d not want connected your lawsuit if personification put retired a statement connected your life.

Yet, paradoxically, Arteta’s Arsenal deficiency slayer instinct, incapable to find successful themselves nan unbridled cruelty that wins convention titles. Where champions find a way, truthful acold they person faltered.

There are various reasons for this, insufficient verve and extent astir evidently culpable. But there’a besides a consciousness that Arteta’s strength – nan very point that would make him specified an effective statement slayer – saps his squad of nan state they request to merrily mass-murder nan Premier League.

And they will beryllium emotion nan unit this afternoon, apical of nan array and starring Chelsea and Manchester City by 3 and 4 points respectively, pinch today’s crippled successful hand. If they tin triumph it, they will return a immense measurement towards claiming a first title successful 22 years; if they cannot, each nan aged doubts will resurface.

But location is besides unit connected Tottenham who, past clip out, were devoid of attacking imagination, needing 2 deflections for their 2 goals earlier conceding a precocious equaliser successful typically spursy fashion. There is nary consciousness that Thomas Frank is connected nan cusp of something.

On nan different hand, though, Tottenham person nan champion distant grounds successful nan convention and a burgeoning set-piece prowess that, particularly successful nan absence of nan injured Gabriel, makes them a threat successful this match. Moreover, nan North London derby is nan country’s astir reliably chaotic fixture and, conscionable arsenic Arteta is simply a precise and focused danger, truthful Frank is simply a windmilling dervish capable to animate successful his players focused aggression antecedently considered beyond them. This is going to beryllium good.

Kick-off: 4.30pm BST