Match of the Week: Six-goal thriller sinks Spurs in 2018

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For this week's Match of the Week, we look back at a thrilling north London derby from December 2018 as Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham visited a raucous Emirates Stadium.

After losing our first two matches under new boss Unai Emery, things were starting to look up for our Gunners, who had won eight of their last 11 matches to move fifth in the Premier League standings.

As for our rivals, Spurs had won 10 of their opening 13 matches, putting them in third position, five points off Manchester City at the top of the standings.

We kept the same line-up that defeated Bournemouth a week earlier.

We picked up a thrilling 2-0 victory over Spurs at Emirates Stadium in 2017/18 - would history repeat itself a season on? Sit back, relax and enjoy this belter from the archives.

STARTING LINE-UPS

Arsenal: Bernd Leno, Rob Holding, Sokratis, Shkodran Mustafi, Saed Kolasinac, Lucas Torreira, Granit Xhaka, Hector Bellerin, Alex Iwobi, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Subs: Petr Cech, Stephen Lichtsteiner, Mo Elneny, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Aaron Ramsey, Alex Lacazette, Matteo Guendouzi.

Tottenham Hotspur: Hugo Lloris, Serge Aurier, Ben Davies, Jan Vertonghen, Juan Foyth, Eric Dier, Moussa Sissoko, Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli, Heung-Min Son, Harry Kane.

Subs: Paulo Gazzaniga, Toby Alderweireld, Kyle Walker-Peters, Danny Rose, Harry Winks, Lucas Moura, Fernando Llorente.

Attendance: 59,973

Referee: Mike Dean

TABLE ON MATCHDAY

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