First-half goals from Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz helped Arsenal boost their Premier League title hopes with a 3-2 derby win
title almost 20 years ago to the day at White Hart Lane. To borrow a line from Mikel Arteta, it was about making their own history here, about doing everything they could to maintain the pressure on Manchester City, who would play at Nottingham Forest later in the day.
The answer was no, Spurs emerging with credit for their fighting spirit but no points. The prospect of hurting Arsenal’s title challenge had been everything. Despite a few first-half near misses and their best efforts towards the end, they could not prevent a second successive home loss to the team that they most love to hate.
There had been eyebrows raised at Højbjerg’s inclusion among the Spurs fanbase and it felt as if their worst fears were realised when the midfielder erred with such terrible consequences in the 15The corner had been conceded softly by Spurs after they tried and failed to play out from the back and when Saka whipped it over, Højbjerg found himself on the wrong side of Takehiro Tomiyasu.
Romero headed just wide from one Maddison set-piece and hit the post on another. Spurs thought they had equalised when a Pedro Porro blast after a half-cleared corner broke for Micky van de Ven, his finish assured, the celebrations crazy, only for the VAR to intervene. Van de Ven had been just offside.
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