Gabriel was our north London derby day hero as he headed house the one aim to safe a third-straight victory on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The Brazilian defender towered over the Spurs defence on 64 minutes to divert house a Bukayo Saka cotrner and settle a sport of few possibilities, which we loved the higher of all through the competition and finally deserved our hard-fought victory.

It ensured we stay unbeaten within the Premier League this marketing campaign, however extra importantly for all Gooners, noticed us declare a hat-trick of wins on the house of our neighbours for the primary time since 1988 as our very good away report in 2024 continues.

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Highlights: Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Arsenal

Early possibilities

We began a Premier League sport with out Declan Rice and Martin Odegaard for the primary time because the England worldwide’s arrival, however our midfield of Jorginho, Thomas Partey and Kai Havertz have been very good all through.

As is normally the case on derby day, the house help was boisterous from the off and that propelled Spurs within the early levels. Contemporary off profitable the Premier League Save of the Month award, David Raya was compelled into motion twice within the opening eight minutes, pushing away a Dejan Kulusevski drive from shut vary earlier than tipping a clumsy untouched cross from the Swede round his put up.

However we fought again and conjured up the 2 greatest probabilities of the half inside a 90 seconds of one another. Firstly, Kai Havertz met a cross together with his head on 17 minutes and solely a fantastic reflex save from Guglielmo Vicario saved it out, who additionally obtained fortunate that the ball didn’t creep in off the unaware Cristian Romero.

Then a neat cross by Leandro Trossard launched Gabriel Martinell by on aim down the left, however after he charged into the field he couldn’t discover any curl as he took goal for the underside nook and Vicario claimed comfortably.

12 of our 16 targets towards Spurs beneath Mikel Arteta had been scored within the first half, however because it progressed there have been no different sights of aim for us to vary that statistic. Certainly, solely a few half-chances fell the hosts’ method with Dominic Solanke heading large and Brennan Johnson wildly thrashing a shot over with out troubling Raya once more.

The busiest man within the opening half was referee Jarred Gillet who dished out seven yellows – the joint-most playing cards ever proven within the first 45 minutes of a Premier League match – because the derby day passions started to boil over.

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Gabi grabs the aim

The start of the second half started a lot in the identical method, however we have been wanting harmful as we attacked the ultimate third, though our last cross at instances was letting us down.

However we saved knocking, and on 64 minutes the standard got here to the fore. A swift counter-attack noticed us win a nook, and Bukayo Saka whipped a devilish ball proper into the six-yard field, the place Gabriel escaped Romero’s marking and powerfully dispatched a header previous a helpless Vicario to ship the travelling supporters wild.

Spurs supplied little comeback to that setback and Raya was barely troubled all through the rest of the sport, as possibilities dried up. With 10 minutes to go Raheem Sterling was launched from the bench for his Gunners debut, whereas Ethan Nwaneri was additionally added to the fray late on as he obtained to pattern a style of the derby for the primary time.

Hearts have been in mouths when Kulusevski let fly from 25 yards in stoppage time however his shot screeched simply over the crossbar, and meant we received for the sixth league sport on the highway in a row, have received 10 of our 11 away video games and saved a ninth clear sheet because the derby day delight was once more our Gooners’.

Info and stats

We now have received six consecutive Premier League away video games for the primary time since March-September 2013, after we received eight in a row beneath Arsene Wenger.

We now have received half of their Premier League away video games towards Tottenham beneath Mikel Arteta (50% – 3/6). Certainly, that is now only one victory fewer than we managed in 22 away video games towards them within the competitors beneath Wenger (4/22 – D11 L7).

Spurs have received simply 4 factors within the Premier League to date this season (W1 D1 L2), their fewest by their opening 4 matches of a marketing campaign since 2015/16.

Three of our final 4 Premier League targets towards rivals Tottenham have been from corners – solely three of their earlier 88 north London derby league targets had been from corners earlier than this.

For the reason that begin of final season, we have now scored extra targets from set items (excluding penalties) than some other staff within the Premier League (23). In the meantime, of groups concerned in each the 2023/24 and 2024/25 campaigns, solely Nottingham Forest (23) have conceded extra set-piece targets than Spurs (18, excl. pens).

10 of Gabriel’s 15 targets within the Premier League have been headers, whereas he’s now one in all solely 4 Arsenal gamers to attain 10+ headed targets within the competitors, together with Olivier Giroud (27), Ian Wright (14) and Emmanuel Adebayor (12).

Jorginho’s yellow card was the sixtieth proven to gamers throughout this matchday (59 yellows, 1 crimson), making it essentially the most ever in a single Premier League matchday (earlier report being 59 on MD5 in 2023/24).

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What’s subsequent

We head to Italy subsequent week for our first Champions League sport of the season towards Atalanta on Thursday, earlier than we deal with reigning champions Manchester Metropolis on the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, September 22.