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The retired forwards netted a combined 16 goals successful this fixture but who was the astir prolific?
Tottenham Hotspur big Arsenal connected Sunday successful the first North London derby of the 2024-25 season, with Mikel Arteta’s broadside keen to instrumentality to winning ways aft dropping points against Brighton & Hove Albion earlier the planetary interruption and Spurs searching for their 2nd league triumph successful twelvemonth 2 of Ange Postecoglou’s spell.
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Tottenham vs Arsenal
Both sides person faced disconnected 64 times successful the Premier League with the Gunners dominating with 25 victories to Tottenham's 15, portion 24 encounters person ended with the shared spoils.
The reddish broadside of North London caput into Sunday's 65th gathering seeking their eighth distant league triumph successful this fixture, having notched consecutive victories successful the erstwhile campaigns — 2-0 successful 2022-23 and 3-2 past season.
Harry Kane is the fixture’s astir prolific goalscorer, with the Bayern Munich prima hitting the backmost of the nett 14 times for Spurs against their neighbours earlier leaving for Bavaria. But however bash Thierry Henry, Emmanuel Adebayor and Nwankwo Kanu comparison to the Englishman, arsenic per Transfermarkt?
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Nwankwo Kanu
Kanu's lone North London derby extremity came successful the 1998-98 play erstwhile notched an 85th-minute onslaught to seal a 3-1 triumph astatine White Hart Lane successful May 1999.
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Emmanuel Petit and Nicolas Anelka had netted to enactment Arsene Wenger's men 2-0 up earlier Darren Anderton halved the shortage earlier half-time.
Emmanuel Adebayor
Adebayor was ne'er forgiven for moving the full pitch’s magnitude erstwhile helium scored for Manchester City against Arsenal successful September 2009, and the erstwhile Togo frontman was 1 of a fewer high-profile players to correspond some clubs.
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The retired striker netted 10 times successful the North London derby successful each competitions (16 matches), scoring 8 times arsenic an Arsenal subordinate and adding 2 with Spurs, albeit successful 5-2 losses against the Gunners.
Only Kane has a superior instrumentality successful this fixture to Adebayor, who eclipsed Henry, albeit aft featuring successful 5 much derbies.
Thierry Henry
Despite being Arsenal’s grounds goalscorer with 228 goals, the Frenchman netted 5 goals successful 11 matches successful each competitions against Spurs, each coming successful the Premier League wherever helium played them 10 times.
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Henry notably ne'er mislaid a fixture against Tottenham, ending connected the winning broadside 7 times successful those 11 match-ups — six league victories and 1 FA Cup triumph.
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