Yet another Arsenal star may miss their journey to Atalanta within the Champions League alongside Riccardo Calafiori and Martin Odegaard, with all three seen as potential damage doubts for Thursday’s conflict.
Tottenham 0-1 Arsenal as Arteta seals North London Derby win
Gunners boss Mikel Arteta took all of the north London bragging rights on Sunday, as his aspect battled with a weakened workforce to beat Spurs on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Star defender Gabriel Magalhaes scored the one aim of the sport on 64 minutes together with his header from a nook, profiting from Tottenham’s set piece weak point proper now to information the ball previous Guglielmo Vicario from shut vary.
Spurs had the vast majority of the possession and threatened extra instances on their dwelling turf, however Arteta’s males did nicely to close up store and are available away with all three factors in what was an encouraging defensive show.
Spurs vs Arsenal (final 7 conferences) | |
|---|---|
Date | Consequence |
fifteenth Sept 2024 | 1-0 Arsenal win |
twenty eighth April 2024 | 3-2 Arsenal win |
twenty fourth Sept 2023 | 2-2 draw |
fifteenth Jan 2023 | 2-0 Arsenal win |
1st Oct 2022 | 3-1 Arsenal win |
twelfth Might 2022 | 3-0 Spurs win |
twenty sixth Sept 2021 | 3-1 Arsenal defeat |
Arsenal got here into the sport with out Odegaard, Calafiori, Declan Rice and Mikel Merino, who have been all absent for the encounter, although the Premier League title hopefuls nonetheless discovered a well past Ange Postecoglou’s hosts to nick all three factors and get again to successful methods.
Arsenal are actually unbeaten of their final 5 derbies, and have received their final three away at Tottenham – which is the Gunners’ greatest run within the fixture for 35 years.
“I am tremendous blissful, clearly,” mentioned Arteta on Arsenal’s 1-0 win at Spurs.
“We all know what it means to our membership, to our individuals to win a London derby, and now we have the ability to attempt to make them very blissful. So hopefully now we have achieved that and that makes it very particular. On the efficiency we had moments within the sport, some actually good ones, some others that now we have to endure. We suffered as a result of now we have to adapt slightly bit the plan due to the gamers that we had out there.
“I beloved it as a result of because the day that we began to get by, the workforce bought hungrier and hungrier to play the sport and that is a giant praise to everyone on the membership to behave in a sure method.”
With their looming journeys to Atalanta and fierce rivals Man Metropolis, supporters can be hoping the likes of Calafiori and Odegaard could make a return, with an replace now popping out of London Colney.
Oleksandr Zinchenko a doubt for Arsenal vs Atalanta
As per Customary Sport, left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko, who additionally missed their North London Derby win at Tottenham with a calf damage, has query marks over his availability on Thursday – alongside each Odegaard and Calafiori.
It apparently stays to be seen whether or not the £150,000-per-week defender can play towards Atalanta, with Zinchenko an damage doubt for Arsenal consequently.
Membership captain Odegaard and summer season signing Calafiori are health issues alongside the Ukraine worldwide, however some excellent news for Arteta is that Arsenal are assured Bukayo Saka will return for Atalanta, after the Englishman was compelled off throughout their victory over Spurs.
