Tottenham v Arsenal LIVE: Premier League team news and line-ups as Jorginho captains Gunners

A reminder of how you can watch today’s fixture – we’re around 20 minutes from kick-off in north London.

When is Tottenham vs Arsenal?

Tottenham vs Arsenal kicks off at 2pm BST today, Sunday 15 September, at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.

Viewers in the United Kingdom can watch the match live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League, with coverage starting at 1pm on the latter. Subscribers will also be able to watch on NOW TV online and on the app.

Arsenal have won nine of their last 10 away league matches, drawing the other, while keeping eight clean sheets. They have equalled their longest away winning streak of five games under Mikel Arteta.

Bukayo Saka scored home and away goals against Tottenham in the Premier League last season, and he could become the third Arsenal player to score in three consecutive north London derby appearances, after Emmanuel Adebayor and Robert Pires.

Kai Havertz has been directly involved in 18 goals in 21 Premier League appearances in 2024, scoring 11 and setting up seven.

This match has seen the most penalties awarded (26) and scored (24) in Premier League history.

Spurs could lose more than one of their opening four matches of a top-flight season for the first time since 2011-12 under Harry Redknapp.

Postecoglou’s side have lost six of their past 10 Premier League fixtures (W3, D1).

Spurs have conceded an own goal in each of their last three league meetings with the Gunners: Hugo Lloris in January 2023, Cristian Romero in September 2023 and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg last April. No team has ever put through in their own net in four consecutive Premier League meetings with an opponent.

Son Heung-min needs one goal to move into the top 20 of the all-time leading Premier League goalscorers, with 122 goals. Dwight Yorke and Raheem Sterling both have 123, and sit joint-19th on the list.

There have been 195 North London derbies in all competitions – Tottenham have won 61, Arsenal have won 82, and there have been 52 draws.

The first match between the two dates back to 1896 – a 2-1 win for the team then named Woolwich Arsenal.

Arsenal won 3-2 away last season after a 2-2 draw at the Emirates, and the Gunners have won five of the lat seven meetings between the two. Spurs’ only victory in the past seven meetings was a 3-0 win at home in May 2022.

They’re the sort of problems Mikel Arteta enjoys figuring out, even if he hates the reason he has to do it. With the Arsenal manager potentially missing his entire first-choice midfield on Sunday, he and his staff have been assessing the data on how long it would take Tottenham Hotspur to get up the pitch if the ball is lost in a certain area. They’re now conscious of the power of Ange Postecoglou’s own midfield. Those who know Arteta say this is an underappreciated aspect of his approach to football. He sees a lot of it in terms of pure maths. If space is left in one area, it’s about the speed with which the opposition can use it. The different numbers influence formation shape, down to where a midfielder sits.

They also influence numbers of a more simple kind, which may frame this north London derby. That is both managers’ approach to keeping goals out. Sunday will be last season’s best defence against one that is distinctly mid-table, a mere 29 goals conceded against a massive 61. For all the focus on midfields, this match may well come down to different interpretations of how you defend.

That difference is all the more striking since both Arteta and Postecoglou have been significantly shaped by the same broader ideology. They both apply principles of the Pep Guardiola Dutch-Spanish approach that has come to dominate modern football, and has been so fully integrated by City Football Group.

“That game sets the tone in many moments in the season when you play those big matches, big stages, and there’s a lot at stake,” he admitted.

“It’s a very emotional game as well. When you are able to perform, able to deliver and win those games, it’s a huge boost, we know that and that’s why we’re going to try so hard.

“We have certain limitations that we know about. There are certain things that we cannot control and what happened in the last two weeks is extremely unlucky. We have to face it, but hopefully during the season it will be very different.

“I want to have the energy, the enthusiasm for the next day, the next game and prepare that in the best possible way and that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to go to Spurs with unbelievable energy and believe that we’re going to go there to be ourselves and try to win the game.” said Arteta.

Mikel Arteta has warned Tottenham that his depleted Arsenal side will arrive for Sunday’s north London derby with unbelievable energy and belief that they will beat their rivals.

Arsenal are set to kick off a pivotal week in their quest for silverware, with a trip to Spurs followed by their Champions League opener at Atalanta. They will then head to Manchester City a week on Sunday.

But the Gunners will do so without Declan Rice – suspended for the game against Tottenham after he was controversially sent off in the draw with Brighton at the Emirates – and summer signing Mikel Merino, who is sidelined with a fractured shoulder.

Captain Martin Odegaard is also set for a spell on the sidelines after sustaining an ankle injury on international duty with Norway. Arteta has so far been coy on the length of Odegaard’s absence.

It leaves the Spaniard facing a serious rejig ahead of a fixture which he admitted will lay the foundations for a period already being described as make-or-break for Arsenal.

Spurs are hoping to respond after a 2-1 defeat to Newcastle in what has been an indifferent start to the 2024/25 campaign with one win, one draw and one defeat from their three matches so far.

The derby is a crucial fixture every season and Tottenham have a slight advantage given they are playing at home and Arsenal are undergoing something of an injury crisis but Postecoglou believes the Gunners will be a ‘tough nut to crack’.

“We want to be a club that can challenge everyone, that’s what we are trying to aim to become.” said the Tottenham boss in his pre-match press conference on Friday.

“To do that, you’ve got to perform at a certain level, at a consistent basis, the squad’s strong enough to do that. We’ve started the season fairly solidly, from a performance perspective. The results haven’t reflected that but I think we’re in a good place to push on from last year and improve on all areas. There’s no reason why we can’t [challenge] this year.”

For the home side, there are four changes to the side that lost against Newcastle last time out.

In defence, Micky van de Ven comes in for Radu Dragusin, while in midfield, Pape Sarr and Yves Bissouma drop out for Bentancur and Kulusevski.

Wilson Odobert is replaced by Brennan Johnson in attack, with Kulusevski dropping back into midfield as Dominic Solanke returns.