The first EPL North London Derby of the season is here, and the stakes could not be any higher. A win for Arsenal could launch the team into first place, while a win for Tottenham will move the team into fifth place, just a point outside of the top 4. Spurs are in great league form, undefeated in their last ten matches while tallying five wins. The key to the turnaround has been a resurgence of the Tottenham attack, as the likes of Harry Kane, Christian Eriksen, Mousa Dembele and Erik Lamela have been scoring and creating goals. The question will be if Tottenham can hold up in their toughest road game since Manchester United...which just so happened to be Spurs' last league loss. The trip across North London takes Spurs to the Emirates, where Arsenal sits in second place, even on points with leading Manchester City. The Gunners are a team in a strange place. On the one hand they have tallied five straight league wins, looking vicious in the process. But Arsenal has been beset by injuries (Bellerin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Walcott, Ramsey, and Wilshire), and a midweek destruction against Bayern Munich in the Champions League will not boost confidence ahead of the North London Derby. With all of those attacking injuries, the onus will be on Mesut Ozil, Alexis Sanchez, and Olivier Giroud to tally the goals.
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