The Athletic.

Arsenal were too much for Tottenham in yesterday's North London Derby.

It's in again. Goodness me.

Kyle Hubbard makes it three for Arsenal.

How much worse can this first half get for Tottenham, Hotspur?

Afterwards, Spurs' boss Ajposs Okoglu said his team needs to deal with the details to be contenders.

So what exactly are the fine margins they're missing?

And will it be enough to get to the next step and challenge next season?

Am Iyahuakimilari. Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast.

In for us today, we've got the Athletic Sebb, Stafford Bluff, and also our Tottenham

writer Jack Pitt Brook.

So what?

Spurs were beating in the North London Derby 3-2 yesterday by Arsenal.

Seb, were they unlucky?

Yeah, at certain points. I think they probably didn't get the rubber the green with some of the

officiating. I wouldn't say anything was particularly glaring. But ultimately, if you don't

do the basics of the game well enough, if you don't defend properly at set pieces and you get punished, I don't think that is unlucky. I think that's just a kind of a fairly to prepare. Looking at that sort of matchup between Davis and Saka, you'd probably think in Doggy versus Saka might have been a slightly different matchup. I think so. I mean, I think I might have gone with Emerson Royale on the left just because obviously

Saka's tendency and his trait is always to come out to win off the right touchline in field,

as he did so well for his goal.

I think Royal is a slightly better defender in that kind of situation, obviously right-footed.

So beyond the awkwardness of having that right-footed. So beyond the

awkwardness of having that right-foot on the left side, I think that provides a bit of cover for

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