Last season was notable in that one team actually managed to win home and away and Arsenal welcome Spurs to the Emirates Stadium with manager Mikel Arteta bidding to match Terry Neill as the only Gunners bosses to win their first fourth home north London derbies. Ange Postecoglu, meanwhile, will be hoping that he can replicate the sort of success he enjoyed over an unwelcome neighbour that he had with Rangers when in charge of Celtic. Here is how you can watch the match and everything you need to know:
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- Date: Sunday, Sep. 24 | Time: 9:00 a.m. ET
- Location: Emirates Stadium, London
- Live stream: Peacock
- Odds: Arsenal -154; Draw +333; Tottenham +350
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Arsenal: Though Arteta will be hoping that Gabriel Martinelli, who missed Friday's training session, can recover from the hamstring injury he suffered last week in time to feature in the derby, much of the focus will be on who starts between the sticks rather than on the left wing. David Raya has started both games since the international break in a move that some fear might bring to full circle the Arsenal career of Aaron Ramsdale, who took Bernd Leno's spot at a similar stage two years ago.
For now Arteta insists that he wants to rotate his goalkeepers, and said in his pre-match press conference that he had not decided who would start in the derby. Raya might technically be the better goalkeeper and is arguably the cooler head, but do occasions such as this one not sometimes call for the exuberance of Ramsdale? Certainly if the latter misses out on that team as well then this may well prove to be a changing of the guard at the Emirates Stadium.
Tottenham: With at least two goals in all of their five Premier League games so far this season, it would be hard to say that Spurs' frontline is missing anyone so far, but if there is a game where Harry Kane's absence might be felt it is this one. The England captain, who left for Bayern Munich this summer, is by some distance the north London derby's leading scorer with 14 in just 17 top flight encounters with his great rivals.
Arsenal will certainly be relieved by his absence from the team sheet but Postecoglu was at pains to praise those still at Spurs for how they have plugged the gap.
"We kind of tried to, as a collective, focus on the road ahead, the kind of team we want to be. I've been really pleased with the way the lads have tackled the task of us being a real attacking threat from all areas of our game and so that people don't see a glaring gap there. But you are still trying to replace arguably the greatest player this club has ever had who still was making a very, very significant contribution. The opportunity for the void to be there is there all the time but we've managed that well so far."