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Hello everyone and welcome into this edition of ESPN FC.

I'm Alexis Yunus alongside Stevie Nicol and Alejandro Moreno and you know we have to kick things off in the Premier League because it was all about the North London Derby today and it's Michael Arteta's men who take all the spoils thrashing spurs by four goals to one.

Eberichez, it was a standout performance netting a hat trick.

The first time an Arsenal player has gotten a hat trick in the North London Derby since 1978.

All right, well, at this moment, let's bring on in another member of our team is Julian Lorenz, who actually was at this game. We know he's got some close ties to Arsenal. Because of that, Jules. Thoughts on the game? Does this mean the league's over then? Because I don't know who on this planet can stop Arsenal at the rate they're going. Yeah, that's a good question, Alexis, for sure.

And today was another test, you know, simply because it was the Derby, not that I think many

of us thought that this current Tottenham team could cause too much problem to Arsenal,

but you just never know, it's the rivalry, the Derby, et cetera, et cetera.

But today was not the day where Arsenal would be rattled really or put under pressure or have a few doubts.

It might be next Sunday where Stanford Bridge against Chelsea were three points behind just before this game kicked off today.

So at Arsenal lost against Perz, it would have been just three points between Chelsea and Arsenal and they would have faced next week in South West London.

But it's six points and I think if Arsenal don't lose against Chelsea they would have faced next week in southwest London, pay six points. And I think if Arsenal don't lose against Chelsea, they would have played all the most direct opponents, really, when you think about it. And if they're still that clear, it's true that it's there to lose more than anything else, which we've said really pretty much since the start of the season. It's just interesting because as Jules pointed out, this was a derby.

This was the North London Derby.

And I mean, Ala, I think we were talking about it just off camera that that urgency from Spurs just never came.

Did you notice that or is it just that Arsenal were that good?

I'm going to focus on Arsenal for right now.

And I'm sure we'll speak about Spurs at some point,

but their performance is not worthy of actually talking about Spurs.

What I would say about Arsenal is that they're checking every box that you can potentially put in your mind about what a championship-winning team looks like.

Today, that was supposed to be about the emotion of the derby that throw the records away.

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