Premier League Preview: Arsenal - Tottenham Hotspur

Exceptionally, in recent years, fierce competition from both ends of the Seven Sisters Road, facing each other with both to fill four positions in the Premier League. In fact, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have the same number of points – 19 – when the team has “a better goal difference and the advantage of a game in hand. But while Arsene Wenger will leave from the side of the also widely used in the table that has jurisdiction over the first four in each of the 13 season, the Frenchman ended the Spurs, this is a relatively new experience.

Tottenham currently enjoying its best ever becoming a season Premier League, which is in stark contrast to his good fortune to start a year ago. In the last week of October, 2008 Spurs were behind the rest of the league.

Juande Ramos, had just been released, and Harry Redknapp, his successor, was immediately supported the club’s first win of the season at home against Bolton. Victoria Tottenham took a point of escalation of the bottom of the table but stayed within three points of safety. Redknapp next obstacle was beaten Arsenal away in the middle of the week with Arsenal, fourth-West Ham 2-0 away win at the weekend.

The clash at the Emirates was one of the most exciting matches of the season. Ex-Gunner David Bentley volley from 40 yards a wonder of visitors a perfect start, but Mikael Silvestre compensation before the holidays and fellow French defender William Gallas put Arsenal ahead early in the second half. When Emmanuel Adebayor of Arsenal, third on 64 minutes seemed odds-on for a home win, three minutes later, Darren Bent reduced to offset the deficit. But in the next minute, Robin van Persie, seems willing to take the game over the Spurs. Then came a remarkable final at Tottenham that made the Gunners pay for some slack defending. Jermaine Jenas made in the 89th minute and then with the right mouse button on the death, compensation for Aaron Lennon to play in a capsule of incredible 4-4.

There were fireworks after the season at White Hart Lane when the former foes fought a goalless draw, but at the end of the season the Spurs comfortably secure. Redknapp, Tottenham was able to build on that mount the first serious challenge for Champions League qualifying for several years. Administrators felt that all had taken a talented team with some clever re-signings (Jermain Defoe, Robbie Keane, Peter Crouch) was the self-confidence to believe as a team. This confidence is such that Keane boasted in the week when the Spurs are now a stronger team the Gunners, especially in relation to the size of the bank.

Of course, Tottenham have increased by praising an art form in recent seasons, but steadily, to deliver the goods. Risks of claim Keane is a hostage to fortune, if not Spurs beat Arsenal on Saturday in a league match for the first time in 10 years. In the second string Arsenal beat Liverpool in the League Cup on Wednesday, it is arguable that the possession of the north London giants, greater strength in depth.

League Cup Tottenham also enjoyed success in a Merseyside team in the week, against Everton 2-0 at the lane on Tuesday. So both sides can take their lunch break clash with the progress in the quarter-finals of the competition, whose only final or progress of others in each of the last three seasons under appeal