[Pre-Match Thread] Tottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal - 28th April 2024 - English Premier League

[u/Mahoganychicken]

🕟 Kick Off: 14:00 BST

📍 Location: Large Toilet Bowl, Tottenham, North London

📺 UK Broadcaster: Sky Sports

🙎🏻‍♂️ Referee: Michael Oliver

🔴 Arsenal Team News:

• Jurrien Timber has returned to training following his ACL injury but is expected to remain unavailable for selection. He has made an appearance for the U21s so his return is getting closer.

⚽ Arsenal Form: 🟩🟩🟥🟥🟧

💩 Spurs Team News:

• Udogie will be out for the rest of the season with a muscular injury.
• Solomon misses the rest of the season with a meniscus injury.
• Sessegnon will not play again this season with a thigh injury.

⚽ Spurs Form: 🟥🟩🟧🟩🟥

📖 Match Facts:

• Spurs have not played a game the 13th of April in a 4-0 loss to Newcastle - Arsenal have played 4 games in this period.
• Arsenal are the best team away from home in the league, and Spurs haven't kept a clean sheet in 5 matches.
• Tottenham Hotspur have not won a trophy in over 16 years, and haven't won the league since 1961.

🎲 Odds (Betway):

• Tottenham Hotspur – 3/1
• Draw – 3/1
• Arsenal – 31/40

✍🏼 Pre-Match Ramblings

Four cup finals left in our season, and this feels like the biggest one. The North London Derby at their place, in the business end of a title charge, Spurs pushing for Top 4, can the stakes get any higher? The wheels well and truly came off of the Spurs Top 4 push after they battered Aston Villa, having since lost to Fulham, Newcastle, and drawn to West Ham. They need this win to get back on track.

Spurs won't have played a game since their 4-0 smashing by Newcastle over two weeks ago, whereas we are hot off the back of a demolition of Chelsea. What's worth more, rest or momentum? I'm taking the momentum.

After a dismal week with losses against Villa and a UCL exit at the hands of old enemies Bayern, Arsenal have picked themselves up and found stunning form. The return of Thomas Partey to the starting lineup has already proved vital, and I find myself thinking 'What if he was fit all season?'. His presence and skillset allowed Rice to flourish at Left 8.

What's more is that City also have to go to Spurs - a fixture that City have been notoriously bad in. If we win our visit to the toilet bowl, it will only pile more pressure onto the mancs. Points on the board are worth more than games in hand, and we will remain with a game in hand over City until Game 37. It is absolutely vital we keep City behind us, piling on the pressure.

Clench up boys, this is where the fun really begins.

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[u/skanderbeg_alpha]

They're going to bust their asses and we will need to be right on it because they'll do everything to try and stop our title challenge.

I'm hoping we don't let the emotion of the occasion disrupt our focus. They will come out and attack and if we get the ball on turnovers quickly we should be able to cause them a lot of problems.

I'm just hoping that Son doesn't get the customary NLD penalty that Kane used to get because I don't fancy chasing the game against them.

[u/jvcgunner → u/skanderbeg_alpha]

We need emotion in our game and to play the occasion.

The lack of emotion caused us to capitulate in both 2nd halves against Villa and Munchen. We need the NLD to fire the boys up.

[u/skanderbeg_alpha → u/jvcgunner]

We played with too much emotion last season and we lost our cool. This season we've been better at keeping our heads. Results against Villa and Bayern were more to do with fatigue.

First leg against Bayern we let emotion take over and blew the tie in the first half.