For the second time this season, our supporters could savour a 4-1 success against Tottenham Hotspur, and send football statisticians scrambling for their record books.
We went to the home of our rivals seeking a fourth-straight win on enemy turf for the first time since a similar streak between 1952 and 1955, the last of which saw the legendary striker Tommy Lawton score the only goal of the game to string four in a row together.
Now our class of 2026 have matched those feats, thanks to a 2-0 triumph in January 2023, a 3-2 win in April 2024 and a 1-0 success the following September. In fact, this is such a rare feat that we are only the second team to win four consecutive away games at Tottenham in the Premier League, after Manchester United who achieved six in a row in the 2000s, while William Saliba is the first Gunner to ever win his first four derbies at Tottenham.
We’ve now won seven of our last eight games against Spurs, including all four of the fixtures across the past two seasons. That represents the first time we have achieved a league double over them in successive seasons since 1987/88 and 1988/89, while you have to go back the same length of time for the last time we won five league derbies in a row.
And if a 37-year wait for that was long enough, you have to go back even further to match our goalscoring exploits on Sunday. Ebere Eze’s and Viktor Gyokeres’ braces ensured we recorded our biggest away win against Tottenham in the league since a 5-0 victory in December 1978.
Following November’s triumph at Emirates Stadium when Ebere famously took home the matchball, it is also only the second time in our history we have won both league meetings with Spurs by three or more goals.
The other occasion was incredibly 91 years ago in the 1934/35 campaign, when we won 5-1 at Highbury before demolishing our rivals 6-0 at White Hart Lane during a season that saw us net 115 goals in 42 league games en route to the title.
In those two matches, the iconic Ted Drake netted five times, and 91 years later Ebere matched his feats to become just the second player to score four or more league goals in north London derbies in a season.
Incredibly, after only two appearances in this famous fixture, only Robert Pires (7 in 11) and Emmanuel Adebayor (6 in 7) have scored more Premier League goals for us in the derby.