Tottenham v Arsenal Betting Tips [28 April 2024]

Arsenal and Tottenham come face to face in the biggest game of the weekend in the Premier League. There’s all to play for, in this latest North London Derby, Arsenal being top of the table and Spurs chasing a top-four spot. Early title favorites Tottenham lost steam as the season progressed, and come here six points below the top four. Chances that England will have a fifth Champions League slot are slim, thus Spurs must fight for a top-four finish. They need massive improvement from their last outing, which turned out disastrous, falling 4-0 at Newcastle United. That was their second heavy defeat inside five matches after earlier losing 3-0 at Fulham. Three straight home wins will however build their confidence coming into this game. The one area that has let Spurs down this season is their defence, the team having conceded 49 times in 32 matches. In their last 12 home league matches, Spurs have no clean sheet. However, they’ve made up for this with a good scoring run, netting in each of their 16 home league matches this season. Maintaining this run will be important here, having failed to score the last time Arsenal visited, and ended up 2-0 losers.

Arsenal twice let the lead slip in the first meeting between these two at The Emirates in September. That clash ended 2-2, and they don’t have the comfort of dropping points here, if they want to stay in the title chase. Coming into this game, Arsenal will be a point better and having played a game more than Manchester City. It thus follows that they can’t afford not to win. Two straight wins ahead of this game should work well for their confidence. They are coming from a dominant game against Chelsea, winning 5-0 at home. This will be a tougher game, and any win margin should be welcome for the Gunners. One win only in eight visits to Tottenham isn’t a record Arsenal fans will be glad to refer to. The Gunners won in their last visit here and will only be thinking of making it two wins in two. This fixture has also not returned a lot of clean sheets for either team. That too will be a concern for Arsenal, who are on six straight clean sheets in away league matches.

Tottenham hosting Arsenal will be one of the highlight games of the weekend, a game that brings out the best of the two sides. Both sides come into the game with good scoring runs, a trend we expect to see in this game too. Arsenal have been keeping a lot of clean sheets lately but that may prove tough in the North London derby. It hasn’t happened a lot in this fixture and our prediction for Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal is for both teams to score.