Ange Postecoglu and Mikel Arteta preview the north London derby | Tottenham vs Arsenal

Welcome back to Total Football, let's move on further ahead of Sunday's big North London Derby. Can Arsenal go to Spurs and keep their title? It is salivary. We have been to both clubs today. There are journalists. What a duo Michael Bridge and James Saundra. We'll talk to Michael. in brief, but first to James and James Arsenal lead the way Manchester City stalks a lot How does Mikel Aretta see his team's chances of ending their long wait for a Premier League title? Good afternoon to steal. Well, Arsenal were hoping to put significant pressure on their title. Rivals.

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, but defending champions Manchester City showed no courage in beating Brighton today. Metta was in an open, engaging and relaxed mood and says that Liverpool are also not out of this title race yet and he and Arsenal have been galvanized by those back-to-back wins that emerged from back-to-back defeats to Aston Villa and then Bayern Munich. They have scored seven goals without conceding any. in the process, that's six clean sheets in a row away from home, so they will go to the Tottenham Hots Stadium this weekend without any fear and go into that game knowing they can extend their lead at the top of the Premier League table to four. points for at least a couple of hours before Pep Guardiola's team's next game and Mel Tes has been talking about Arsenal's chances of ending that long wait for another Premier League title, now that we're there we have to look at ourselves and try to perform. in the best way possible to win our matches and wait to see what happens and uh, that's what we discussed, it sounds a little repetitive but it's what we have to do.

Do you see it now as a two-horse race between you and Manchester City? I think so I think this league is tremendously demanding and um and there can still be a lot of shifts and uh and we all know how difficult it is to win games in this league how do you see the super computer? I don't know what to say, hopefully we can modify that computer and make it a lot taller, maybe it needs to load the software, maybe we need to help it download the software, or give it more tools, hopefully we can ch

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that and James, you mentioned it over there. those back-to-back defeats against Villa and Bayern and maybe then there was a feeling that Arsenal were starting to run out of gas, but maybe the last few days have shown evidence that they can hold out until the end of this season, yes Robin.

Historically, April has been the month in which things have tended to fall apart for Arsenal; It's actually Mikela's worst month in terms of his winning percentage as Arsenal manager two years ago, they lost three games in a row when his four best chances were wasted and then moved on quickly. Until last year they drew three in a row and then lost to Manchester City to almost end their title chances, but they were able to finish this month with five wins out of six in the Premier League and Arsenal looked tougher, looked better, looked more resilient This time and this season alone they have eight players who have played more than 3,000 minutes in all competitions and I asked Meleta about the growth of this team, both physically and mentally throughout this season, that we have everyone available and that It's a big boost that elevates the training session, the competition between the players and the alternatives, as well as the correct lineup to ch

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the game, so it's a really important thing how much excitement you get from the growth on this side both towards the end of this season, but also looking towards the next campaigns, yes, obviously, we are completely focused on this one because there is still a lot at stake and we really want to get the job done and we also know that obviously it is a very young team with a really bright future and There is still a lot of room for improvement and we will try to continue developing it.

Timber is the only Arsenal player who may not be available for selection tomorrow. He returned for the under 21s on Monday and Meleta said he is very close to returning, he has not played for Arsenal since August and Arsenal have played four times since Tottenham last played four games in the space of 10 days, which, according to Meleta, was an incredible achievement, but it says here. scor will be fully ready for this North London Derby on Sunday. James, thank you very much, actually, across North London and then to Michael Bridge, who is with Tottenham. James mentioned it there.

Michael, it was Everton who effectively ended Liverpool's title hopes earlier this week. Tottenham I would love to do the same with Arsenal, wouldn't that sound good? The fans would absolutely see a very fierce rivalry. You know, if Arsenal win against Spurs on Sunday, I think that confirms that they will definitely finish above Tottenham and it's called Totteringham. day and it's where Spurs officially can't finish above Arsenal, it sounds really pathetic I know, but it's a local rivalry here in North London, but look what Tottenham's aim is here this season, you know, it's been a season of real changes, change of coach, change of The team is losing the best striker, one of the best strikers in the world, Harry Kane, but you know wherever Spurs end up, you hear it on the debate channels and YouTube shows everything about the fans, where, what you want to happen, what Spurs fans do.

I don't want to see if Arsenal lift the title and I asked a po cogo if that will be up to the players. I care because it could be in the fans this Sunday. It's fair again. I'm not going to dictate how the fans feel or what to feel is important uh we understand the importance of the game and we understand the importance of you knowing, particularly at home in these types of games, to not let you know our biggest rival or already you know, on the biggest star for us, um. Top, on top of us so we understand the consequences and stuff, but yeah, ultimately, you know we're still trying to measure ourselves against the U, the teams that we want to challenge more consistently and, um, it's a great opportunity. to do it.

On Sunday, because the moment, because of what it means to the fans, Rivalry, it feels personally like the most important game for you as Spurs manager, since you joined the club, look, I mean, I think every game is important. I play seriously and every game is a great game and I think that's the only thing we're trying to impress on this group of players is that that's the nature of the Premier League it's relentless, you know, and if you're nice If you're not 100% focused on each different challenge then you will come up short, so I always feel like the next game is the most important game, but I understand the context around a North London Derby and what it means.

Our supporters are surely right, we know we have a very exciting title race between Arsenal, Manchester City's biggest rivals Tottenham and of course Liverpool, however there is still a race for that final place in the Champions League, now Aston Villa are the favorites at the moment and if they beat Chelsea on Saturday night they will be nine points ahead of Spurs, however Spurs will have three games in hand against Aston Villa, so that Spurs are still in contention for that Champions League place now at the start of the season, when Harry Kane left Tottenham Hotspur swamped.

People's opinion is that Spurs will do well if they finish in the top half, so I think if Spurs finish even in fifth place, I think it's a very good season for a POA kogu, but a POA kogu? Would you agree if I had told you at the beginning? of the season you would lose Harry Kanane, but with six games left you would be fifth in the Premier League table, you would have taken him, wouldn't you? No, no, I'd be disappointed, man, you think you should be higher up, no. You told me what I would have taken at the beginning of the year.

You didn't ask me if I think we should be higher up. I don't start any year thinking we're going to finish fifth, so what I'm saying is At the beginning of the year I wouldn't have settled for fifth place. I would have tried to win everything where we are. I think it's a fair reflection of our season. I think we've been pretty good, but we've been inconsistent we've had some challenges, you know, injuries and suspensions at different times, all of which are indicative. I think of a group that's still learning how to be, you know, a really strong competitor in this league, but I don't think anyone would say we're in a false position.

I think we've earned where we are, both from a good and a bad perspective. Thanks so POA coo Ultra amb bres and ultimately says next season. He wants to be in a title race and hopefully take on Tottenham's big rivals Arsenal, but let's focus on the

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for this Sunday's game. We know they are in the title race, but Spurs have aspirations of that fourth place in the Champions League. It is one of the best games in the Premier. The league, one of the highest scoring games, is always very entertaining and will be covered on Sunday from the 1:00 start, but we can't wait.