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  1. Spurs held by 10-man Arsenal

    Spurs held by 10-man Arsenal

    Tottenham failed to secure a first Premier League win in a decade against local rivals Arsenal as they were held 0-0 at White Hart Lane. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Tottenham Hotspur
    • Arsenal
    • 90+4' All over at the Lane! If you had asked Harry Redknapp whether he would have taken the point before the game he probably would have said yes, but as things turned out Spurs could have had all three. They are the only side in the bottom six avoid defeat this weekend though.
    • 90+4' Bent turns on the wing and plays the ball inside to Taarabt. Taarabt comes forward and strikes, but it's wide.
    • 90+2' The corner ends up in Cudicini's hands and Tottenham break! Modric is on the box with acres of space... Modric must score... Shot straight at Almunia!! That was the chance for Tottenham to win the match!
    • 90+1' Arsenal come forward now and BENDTNER WITH THE STRIKE... Tipped over by Cudicini!!
    • 90+1' Spurs ride out some good Arsenal pressure and Cudicini initiates the break. Taarabt tries to find Keane with a through-ball but he's offside.
    • 90' Assou-Ekotto's cross goes over everyone and out for a throw. Chimbonda finds Keane who crosses but it hits the boot of Gibbs and rolls safely to Almunia.
    • 89' Modric goes down rather easily in midfield but wins the foul.
    • 87' While Clichy is being treated, Lennon is replaced by Adel Taarabt. Kieran Gibbs will come on for Clichy.
    • 85' Assou-Ekotto curls in a good ball for Bent, but the header loops out to Keane. The Irishman tries to keep it in but gives the ball away. Play is eventually stopped as Clichy is down with a head injury after going up against Bent.
    • 84' Spurs probe round the Arsneal area but Chimbonda loses possession cheaply and Arsenal break and end up with a corner... Dawson heads into the arms of Cudicini. Well defended.
    • 81' Lennon is looking up and he has options, but the diagonal chip aimed at the far post is caught easily by Almunia.
    • 80' Lennon feeds Chimbonda on the wing but the full-back fires his attempted cross into the sidenetting.
    • 80' Tottenham are beginning to run out of ideas and, if anything, Arsenal are looking to be the team in the ascendancy.
    • 77' Modric swings in an inviting free-kick, but Almunia is first to the ball and punches clear.
    • 75' Harry Redknapp brings on Pascal Chimbonda now. The Frenchman replaces Vedran Corluka.
    • 74' Arsenal are so good at dealing with being a man down, right now they are handling Tottenham very well.. Modric appeals for a handball from sagna but nothing given. Arsenal mount an attack but it fizzles out.
    • 72' Jenas flicks a header on and into the path of Keane, who chests it on the turn a FIRES THE HALF-VOLLEY WIDE! Great effort from Robbie Keane - half of the home fans were already on their feet!
    • 70' Another Arsenal corner. it's delivered into the centre and SONG GETS IN FRONT OF PALACIOS... Streered wide of the far post! Spurs are lucky that wasn't a striker on the end of it.
    • 67' Arsenal have a corner now. Nasri's delivery comes to Van Persie at the near post, who turns swiftly to shoot but the strike is into the crowd.
    • 66' Keane has options on the edge of the Arsenal box and he pokes a ball through for Modric, but Almunia is off his line to intercept the slightly overhit pass. Arsenal can't keep riding their luck like this forever.
    • 64' Pavlyuchenko is replaced by Darren Bent, who scored two goals last time he came off the bench for Spurs.
    • 62' Modric and Assou-Ekotto are linking up well down the left for spurs, but then Jenas sends a crossfield pass into the stands looking for Lennon.
    • 59' Tottenham build another nice move in midfield but Pavlyuchenko fails to read Keane's mind and a through-ball runs away from him. arsenal have barely left their half in the last five minutes.
    • 57' Lennon dinks a ball in for KEANE TO HEAD... Over the bar! The Spurs captain should have scored!
    • 54' Spurs have dominated proceedings since the break, but Arsneal are holding firm. Lennon volleys a cross back into the box and there are appeals for handball, but more from the crowd than the players.
    • 50' Pavlyuchenko turns inside Toure on the wing and leaves the defender on the ground! The Russian lines up a strike, but he scoops the shot high and wide.
    • 49' In the end, it was a really half-hearted routine, with Modric rolling the ball to Pavlyuchenko, who took tool ong to shoot and then blasted the shot over the bar.
    • 48' Denilson has fouled Pavlyuchenko in a central are around 30 yards from goal. The shot might be on. Modric and Pavlyuchenko are lurking with intent...
    • 46' The second half is underway.
    • 45+3' That's the end of the first half, and it's been as eventful as you would expect from a North London derby. Spurs have been on top, but will they be able to break thorugh in the second half?
    • 45+3' Palacios is running goalward with the ball at his feet and will STRIKE... Another solid effort from Palacios is tipped over the bar by Almunia!
    • 45' Good open spell as the half draws to a close. Clichy tackles Lennon and has space to run into, but Palacios steams in with a solid tackle of his own. Modric plays one-two with Pavlyuchenko, but his return pass in weak when the right one would have released the Russian.
    • 43' Palacios finds Pavlyuchenko with his back to goal, and the Russian turns on the edge of the box and strikes, but the shot is blocked by Toure. Clichy is booked for a foul on Lennon.
    • 42' Things have shifted down a gear as both sides adjust to there being one less player on the pitch.
    • 38' In the midst of all that, Bendtner comes on to replace Adebayor.
    • 38' EBOUE IS OFF! It looks as though he is booked for his backchat to Modric following that incident, and Mike Dean sees fit to give him a second booking for dissent! Extraordinary!
    • 37' Modric goes down under the challenge of Eboue... He receives the booking for a dive!
    • 35' Adebayor is chasing after a long ball and just pulls up. The striker limps off for treatment, and he being put on a stretcher. Huge cheers from the away fans as Andrei Arshavin warms up, although Nicklas Bendtner is favourite to come on.
    • 32' Corluka tries to shepherd the ball out but is robbed by Nasri! Clichy stabs a ball across from the byline that Adebayor JUST misses as he slides in! A real let-off for Spurs and Vedran Corluka in particular.
    • 31' Modric beats Song with a balletic turn and head for goal. His low strike is saved by Almunia and out for a corner! The Croatian takes the corner himself but Almunia catches.
    • 29' Toure plays a one-two with Adebayor and fires low cross into the box that Cudicini blocks and then smothers before Van Persie can punce on the loose ball.
    • 28' Modric rolls a ball upfield and Lennon nips ahead of Clichy to get a touch and go past him and SHOOT... Flashed across the face of goal and wide!
    • 28' Pressure from Keane and Lennon forces Clichy to clear for a throw, but Spurs give possession back to Arsenal. How long can Tottenham keep this tempo up for?
    • 26' Dawson is limping and in obvious pain, but it looks like he will fight through whatever ails him.
    • 24' Modric fires the set piece to the far post for Woodgate... Keane can't keep it in play.
    • 23' Arsenal attempt to slow the pace of the game down - It's been a very intense opening period, as you would expect. Keane is tripped by Denilson in midfield.
    • 22' Keane v sagna looks like the key duel for Spurs, and the Irishman skips past the full-back but his stabbed cross finds no one this time.
    • 20' Clichy does well to intercept not one but two passes from Corluka. Spurs have it back and the ball is released to Modric. Clichy comes across to tackle from behind in the box... Excellent challenge by Clichy! All Spurs get is a corner.
    • 19' From a Spurs corner Woodgate rises highest at the far post to head back across goal, but the Gunners clear.
    • 17' Sagna clatters Modric in mid-air. He won the ball but the referee is not happy with the follow-through. Eboue earns a yellow card for dissent - Why didn't he just keep quiet? He wasn't even involved.
    • 15' Keane's cross is headed away at the near post. Palacios sends the ball back in for PAVLYUCHENKO... The Russian sends his volley on the turn over the bar! He did well to get the shot off - It would have been a great goal.
    • 14' Clichy's ball forward has too much on it for Van Persie but it runs for Eboue. Eboue bursts into the Spurs box and tries to flick it into the path of Adebayor. After a goalmouth scramble, Adebayor has the ball in the net, but the whistle had already gone for a foul on Dawson.
    • 11' Nasri finds Eboue well down the left, but he comes up against Jonathan Woodgate and ends up on his backside.
    • 9' Palacios has an ambitious crack at goal from 30 yards. It looks to be going wide but Almunia saves it anyway.
    • 7' Aaron Lennon cuts inside from the right and leaves Clichy for dead - not many players who can do that - he takes a left-footed shot and Almunia dives low to his right to save, and he holds it.
    • 6' Van Persie releases Eboue brilliantly down the right channel and the Ivorian attempts a cross-shot, which goes well wide. He might have been better off looking for Adebayor.
    • 4' Robbie Keane goes down under a challenge from Gallas, but referee Mike Dean waves the penalty appeals away!
    • 3' Arsenal have hardly had a kick, and Modric wins another corner off Eboue... the corner misses everybody but scoots out for an Arsenal throw. The sun may be causing the players a few problems.
    • 2' Modric delivers an inswinging free-kick into the Arsenal box and Kolo Toure turns it behind for a corner. Good start Spurs.
    • 1' GAME ON! Keane has been very obviously trying to gee his players up and we are under way. Tottenham are playing from left to right as we see it, with both sides in their 'home' kit. Around 60 per cent of the pitch is bathed in sunlight, with shadow creeping in from the far side.
    • 13:28 Robbie Keane leads Tottenham out to a tremendous ovation! Andrei Arshavin takes his place among the Arsenal substitutes.
    • 13:25 Despite claiming he was still number one at White Hart Lane, Heurelho Gomes is on the bench - Carlo Cudicini continues.
    • 13:15 Have your say! Our message board at the bottom of the screen is up and running, and we already have nearly 200 comments - leave yours below.
    • 13:15 Arsene Wenger: "It is a serious test every time we come here but I am confident we will produce a strong performance."
    • 13:15 A look at the betting (best prices): Tottenham 23/10, Arsenal 7/5, Draw 23/10.
    • 13:10 Tottenham are still only a point outside the relegation zone, while Arsenal are in serious danger of missing out on the Champions League. They are six points adrift of Chelsea and eight behind Aston Villa. Suffice it to say there is plenty at stake - along with local bragging rights - this afternoon.
    • 12:50 The reverse fixture at Highbury last autumn was one of the games of the season so far - it ended 4-4 with Spurs scoring two late goals to nick a point. It was also the match that saw William Gallas's infamous bust-up with a still-unnamed Arsenal team-mate.
    • 12:45 The big team news is that Robbie Keane starts and will captain Tottenham Hotspur on his return to the club. Arsenal's Andrei Arshavin is on the bench. Eduardo da Silva also makes a welcome return among the substitutes after almost a year out of action.
    • 12:40 Welcome to LIVE coverage of Tottenham versus Arsenal from White Hart Lane! The North London derby kicks off at 13:30 UK time.

  • Team Stats

    Tottenham Hotspur Stats Arsenal
    56% Possession 43%
    17 Shots 6
    5 Shots on target 2
    2 Saves 2
    6 Corners 4
    14 Fouls 14
    4 Offsides 2
    1 Yellow cards 1
    0 Red cards 1
    33 Tackles 36
    321 Accurate passes 232
    70 Bad passes 45

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Tottenham Hotspur
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      23 Carlo Cudicini 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 2 0
      20 Michael Dawson 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 20 1 1
      32 Benoit Assou-Ekotto 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 36 22 4
      22 Vedran Corluka 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 35 1 3
      39 Jonathan Woodgate 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 33 10 2
      12 Wilson Palacios 0 2 1 4 2 0 0 33 6 10
      8 Jermaine Jenas 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 50 6 5
      7 Aaron Lennon 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 20 1 2
      14 Luka Modric 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 38 12 3
      15 Robbie Keane 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 13 4 1
      9 Roman Pavlyuchenko 0 4 0 2 3 2 0 14 5 1
      4 Didier Zokora 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      21 Pascal Chimbonda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 1
      3 Gareth Bale 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      19 Adel Taarabt 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
      1 Heurelho Gomes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      10 Darren Bent 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 7 0 0
      6 Tom Huddlestone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Arsenal
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Manuel Almunia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 0
      10 William Gallas 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 19 3 4
      17 Alexandre Song 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 32 5 9
      22 Gaël Clichy 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 20 12 4
      3 Bacary Sagna 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 27 0 6
      5 Kolo Toure 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 19 0 1
      15 Denilson Pereira Neves 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 36 5 6
      27 Emmanuel Eboue 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 0
      8 Samir Nasri 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 28 5 3
      25 Emmanuel Adebayor 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 3 0
      11 Robin van Persie 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 20 1 2
      20 Johan Djourou 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      40 Kieran Gibbs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      16 Aaron Ramsey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      26 Nicklas Bendtner 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 12 3 1
      9 Eduardo da Silva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      23 Andrey Arshavin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      21 Lukasz Fabianski 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90+2' The corner ends up in Cudicini's hands and Tottenham break! Modric is on the box with acres of space... Modric must score... Shot straight at Almunia!! That was the chance for Tottenham to win the match!
    • 90+1' Arsenal come forward now and BENDTNER WITH THE STRIKE... Tipped over by Cudicini!!
    • 72' Jenas flicks a header on and into the path of Keane, who chests it on the turn a FIRES THE HALF-VOLLEY WIDE! Great effort from Robbie Keane - half of the home fans were already on their feet!
    • 70' Another Arsenal corner. it's delivered into the centre and SONG GETS IN FRONT OF PALACIOS... Streered wide of the far post! Spurs are lucky that wasn't a striker on the end of it.
    • 57' Lennon dinks a ball in for KEANE TO HEAD... Over the bar! The Spurs captain should have scored!
    • 50' Pavlyuchenko turns inside Toure on the wing and leaves the defender on the ground! The Russian lines up a strike, but he scoops the shot high and wide.
    • 45+3' Palacios is running goalward with the ball at his feet and will STRIKE... Another solid effort from Palacios is tipped over the bar by Almunia!
    • 38' EBOUE IS OFF! It looks as though he is booked for his backchat to Modric following that incident, and Mike Dean sees fit to give him a second booking for dissent! Extraordinary!
    • 32' Corluka tries to shepherd the ball out but is robbed by Nasri! Clichy stabs a ball across from the byline that Adebayor JUST misses as he slides in! A real let-off for Spurs and Vedran Corluka in particular.
    • 31' Modric beats Song with a balletic turn and head for goal. His low strike is saved by Almunia and out for a corner! The Croatian takes the corner himself but Almunia catches.
    • 28' Modric rolls a ball upfield and Lennon nips ahead of Clichy to get a touch and go past him and SHOOT... Flashed across the face of goal and wide!
    • 15' Keane's cross is headed away at the near post. Palacios sends the ball back in for PAVLYUCHENKO... The Russian sends his volley on the turn over the bar! He did well to get the shot off - It would have been a great goal.
    • 14' Clichy's ball forward has too much on it for Van Persie but it runs for Eboue. Eboue bursts into the Spurs box and tries to flick it into the path of Adebayor. After a goalmouth scramble, Adebayor has the ball in the net, but the whistle had already gone for a foul on Dawson.
    • 7' Aaron Lennon cuts inside from the right and leaves Clichy for dead - not many players who can do that - he takes a left-footed shot and Almunia dives low to his right to save, and he holds it.
    • 6' Van Persie releases Eboue brilliantly down the right channel and the Ivorian attempts a cross-shot, which goes well wide. He might have been better off looking for Adebayor.
    • 4' Robbie Keane goes down under a challenge from Gallas, but referee Mike Dean waves the penalty appeals away!
    • 13:15 Arsene Wenger: "It is a serious test every time we come here but I am confident we will produce a strong performance."
    • 12:45 The big team news is that Robbie Keane starts and will captain Tottenham Hotspur on his return to the club. Arsenal's Andrei Arshavin is on the bench. Eduardo da Silva also makes a welcome return among the substitutes after almost a year out of action.
    • 12:40 Welcome to LIVE coverage of Tottenham versus Arsenal from White Hart Lane! The North London derby kicks off at 13:30 UK time.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Mike Dean

  • Tottenham Hotspur

    Manager: Harry Redknapp

    Captain: Robbie Keane

    Starting line-up

    • C. Cudicini
    • V. Corluka Substitution Out (75′)
    • M. Dawson
    • J. Woodgate
    • B. Assou-Ekotto
    • A. Lennon Substitution Out (87′)
    • W. Palacios
    • J. Jenas
    • L. Modric Yellow Card
    • R. Pavlyuchenko Substitution Out (64′)
    • R. Keane

    Subs

    • D. Zokora
    • D. Bent Substitution In64′
    • P. Chimbonda Substitution In75′
    • H. Gomes
    • T. Huddlestone
    • A. Taarabt Substitution In87′
    • G. Bale

    Injured

    • L. King
    • J. Defoe
    • A. Hutton
    • J. O'Hara

    Suspended

    • D. Bentley

  • Arsenal

    Manager: Arsene Wenger

    Captain: Kolo Toure

    Starting line-up

    • M. Almunia
    • B. Sagna
    • W. Gallas
    • K. Toure
    • G. Clichy Yellow Card Substitution Out (87′)
    • E. Eboue Red Card
    • .. Denilson
    • A. Song
    • S. Nasri
    • R. van Persie
    • E. Adebayor Substitution Out (38′)

    Subs

    • A. Arshavin
    • J. Djourou
    • N. Bendtner Substitution In38′
    • L. Fabianski
    • K. Gibbs Substitution In87′
    • D. Eduardo
    • A. Ramsey

    Injured

    • T. Rosicky
    • M. Silvestre
    • C. Fabregas
    • T. Walcott

    Suspended

    None

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  1. chelsea gk

    From gail.cooper1, on Sun 15 Feb 8:04PM

  2. united are the best leeds leeds leeds

    From gail.cooper1, on Sun 15 Feb 7:59PM

  3. arsenal done well lol

    From Daniel, on Fri 13 Feb 9:42AM

  4. @#$% on gunners
    try and win those games
    put effort in­ the games
    i know its better then losing
    but just try­ and win some games

    From jsc486, on Thu 12 Feb 7:22PM

  5. modric is the best

    From vn_leko, on Wed 11 Feb 1:58PM

  6. Totters first to double? Nope, Villa were.

    From Giskard, on Mon 9 Feb 7:45PM

  7. Normal words which have no meaning.

    From Giskard, on Mon 9 Feb 7:34PM

  8. Up Spurs! I know you can do more to bring a smile on my­ face.................

    From Erskine Sam, on Mon 9 Feb 3:57PM

  9. oh my god!!!!! i cant belive that it was draw!!! there­ should at least be about 2
    goals

    From mags, on Mon 9 Feb 2:04PM

  10. i watch the match

    From ntalu, on Mon 9 Feb 12:58PM

  11. im just glad arsenal got a point with 10-men

    From Fionntan, on Mon 9 Feb 12:25PM

  12. Arsenal got a brave point against Spurs, luckily­ didn't lose with 10-men on the field

    Arsenal 4­ ever

    From Fionntan, on Mon 9 Feb 12:22PM

  13. Arsenal rocks! Just because of injuries that we cant­ win! How unlucky!

    From SKP, on Mon 9 Feb 12:22PM

  14. you dont now how to play

    From yousfisamir2000, on Mon 9 Feb 11:49AM

  15. No Fabregas, no walcott. Nasri is doing most of the­ creativity on his own. Arsenal need Arshavin in there­ ASAP, he's a world class playmaker and can make­ things happen, shame wenger didn't play him this­ time round.

    From jusstinn, on Mon 9 Feb 11:00AM

  16. Poor barbara_meaduck Comment 809

    You don't sound­ like a true Arsenal supporter to me by carrying on­ about losing interest in supporting Arsenal. A true­ supporter takes the rough with the smooth. I have been­ a supporter of Tottenham since 1961 - the first team to­ win the double. I have seen them at their best and­ their worst but my loyalties will always be with Spurs­ despite all the silly childish comments said by other­ supporters about our team and our supporters.

    Support­ your team no matter what !!! You may get angry with­ your management but don't stop giving your team­ your support

    From The Realist, on Mon 9 Feb 9:24AM

  17. arsharvin you must pull the team up and do it fast

    From Ron K, on Mon 9 Feb 9:11AM

  18. frustrating match

    From Ron K, on Mon 9 Feb 9:10AM

  19. all we need is trophys not entertaiment football,wake­ up asene wenger

    From omotayo, on Mon 9 Feb 8:29AM

  20. asene wenger what exactly are u doing coz i can realy­ understand,u cant buy good players still the ones u­ have u cant make use of them,u making me tired of­ supporting arsenal.

    From omotayo, on Mon 9 Feb 8:25AM
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