{"id":54960,"date":"2025-11-21T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/?p=54960"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:59:06","slug":"this-might-be-the-closest-north-london-derby-weve-seen-in-some-time-but-tottenham-will-approach-it-with-real-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/?p=54960","title":{"rendered":"This might be the closest North London Derby we\u2019ve seen in some time, but Tottenham will approach it with real caution."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Season Records<\/p>\n<p>2022\u201323<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal: W26 D6 L6 \u2014 F88 A43 \u2014 84 pts<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham: W18 D6 L14 \u2014 F70 A63 \u2014 60 pts<\/p>\n<p>2023\u201324<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal: W28 D5 L5 \u2014 F91 A29 \u2014 89 pts<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham: W20 D6 L12 \u2014 F74 A61 \u2014 66 pts<\/p>\n<p>2024\u201325<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal: W20 D14 L4 \u2014 F69 A34 \u2014 74 pts<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham: W11 D5 L22 \u2014 F64 A65 \u2014 38 pts<\/p>\n<p>Mentality Ahead of the Derby<\/p>\n<p>Another factor that is rarely discussed before major fixtures is the mindset of individual players. While professionalism is often emphasised\u2014and most Premier League players can stay composed\u2014the intensity of a derby can still overwhelm those who aren\u2019t accustomed to it.<\/p>\n<p>Some Tottenham players may find the atmosphere challenging, especially compared to Arsenal\u2019s squad, who are likely to draw confidence from the home support and their position at the top of the league. Spurs, on the other hand, face a significant psychological hurdle due to their unprecedented injury problems.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail reported in May that Tottenham players spent twice as long out injured as Liverpool&#8217;s, and this ongoing issue, combined with their current injury list, may weigh heavily on the players\u2019 minds. If any Tottenham player suffers what looks like a serious injury during the match, the tension and concern from the Spurs bench will be unmistakable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season Records 2022\u201323 Arsenal: W26 D6 L6 \u2014 F88 A43 \u2014 84 pts Tottenham: W18 D6 L14 \u2014 F70 A63 \u2014 60 pts 2023\u201324 Arsenal: W28 D5 L5 \u2014 F91 A29 \u2014 89 pts Tottenham: W20 D6 L12 \u2014 F74 A61 \u2014 66 pts 2024\u201325 Arsenal: W20 D14 L4 \u2014 F69 A34 \u2014 74 pts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":54961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4af40583f3faa434f5a18d1adea3c13e.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54962,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960\/revisions\/54962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}