Arsenal vs Tottenham

Match report as leaders Arsenal beat Tottenham 3-1 to go four points clear; Thomas Partey, Granit Xhaka and Gabriel Jesus on target for Gunners; ...

Instead, we kept the game in balance. Antonio Conte to BT Sport: "I think we had the opportunity to do much better in the first half. Mikel Arteta to BT Sport: "From the beginning, we went for it. I am so happy because it was a beautiful game, a beautiful day, and we've made our supporters very happy." This is what we demand the players to do. We are in a good way."

Arsenal have ensured that they'll spend yet another weekend atop the Premier League after an emphatic 3-1 win over Tottenham in the North London derby.

Brazil will be tracking what the duo does but it could be a decision that comes down to the final days before the World Cup. It's always up to the player to avoid giving a referee a decision to make in these scenarios, and Arsenal showed Spurs why it's so critical not to make dumb mistakes. Kulusevski picked up a knock while on international duty for Sweden but for Spurs' sake, hopefully, he'll be back in the rotation sooner than later. After defeating Leicester City 6-2 before the international break, the hope was that Tottenham would bring momentum through the time off and into this headline match, but it wasn't to be as their struggles at the Emirates will continue. It was a rash tactical foul, with Emerson going in quite high, the kind of prototypical "orange card" offense that sometimes ends in a red but often leads to a yellow card. Mistakes are punished in derby matches, and Saturday it was Spurs who let the occasion get to them.

Goals from Thomas Partey, Gabriel Jesus and Granit Xhaka secure a third-straight home win against our local rivals.

Sensing an opportunity to seal the win, we quickly pressed for a third goal and after Saka bent a shot wide after coming inside, it arrived. But for all our early dominance, Spurs found a way back level just 10 minutes later when we failed to clear our lines from a counter-attack and Gabriel fouled Richarlison in the area. Saka did well to jink inside from the right and get a shot away, which Lloris did well to parry. However, just four minutes after the restart, the Brazilian did get his goal to flip the game back in our favour. Saka was again involved, receiving possession on the right and found Ben White. And on 20 minutes, we grabbed the lead with an absolute blockbuster.

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[Gabriel Jesus](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/217289/Gabriel-Jesus) long to send the hosts back in front with his fifth goal of the season -- despite being left out of last month's Brazil squad. "From the first second I think we were the better team," Xhaka said. We just started and we're really happy with where we are. [Arsenal](/soccer/team?id=359) claimed an emphatic 3-1 victory over North London rivals [Tottenham Hotspur](/soccer/team?id=367) at the Emirates on Saturday to remain top of the Premier League. It's nothing that we have done yet and there's still a lot of things to improve. "Looking at the table and seeing the club in this position is great," Arteta said.

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