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Arsenal vs. Tottenham Hotspur
Emirates Stadium, North London, Earth
12:30pm ET | 9:30am PT | 5:30pm London
US TV: NBCSN | Global TV Listings: livesoccer.tv
So here we go again, another season of North London derbies kicks off at home with the not-so-noisy neighbors coming to visit. Arsenal pretty much own this fixture - Tottenham have won twice at the Emirates in the last 28 years, and on current form for both teams, you'd expect that streak to continue. At least I would.
Arsenal are of course coming off a nice, tidy 3-0 win over Aston Villa, while that other lot lost 1-0 to West Brom. But, form out the window and so on and so forth; this is the derby, and from what I hear, anything can happen in these games. I doubt that means both sides will sit down and start playing Go Fish together instead of a soccer match, so it turns out not exactly ANYTHING can happen; still, this should be a tasty fixture, so let's hope it tastes like grilled pigeon.
No, I don't know what that tastes like.
#Arsenal team to play Spurs: Szczesny, Chambers, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Wilshere, Arteta, Ramsey, Ozil, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Welbeck
— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) September 27, 2014
#Arsenal subs: Ospina, Coquelin, Flamini, Rosicky, Podolski, Cazorla, Alexis #AFCvTHFC
— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) September 27, 2014
#THFC team: Lloris, Naughton, Kaboul (c), Vertonghen, Rose; Capoue, Mason; Chadli, Eriksen, Lamela; Adebayor #COYS
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 27, 2014
#THFC subs: Vorm, Dier, Fazio, Bentaleb, Lennon, Townsend, Soldado #COYS
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 27, 2014