{"id":583751,"date":"2025-11-21T02:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583751\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:03:48","slug":"tottenham-injury-crisis-bigger-than-arsenals-ahead-of-north-london-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583751\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham injury crisis bigger than Arsenal&#8217;s ahead of North London derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tottenham head into the North London derby with a growing injury crisis, with up to 13 players unavailable or doubtful for Sunday\u2019s game against Arsenal.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/arsenal-fc-v-tottenham-hotspur-fc-premier-league-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 15: Radu Dragusin of Tottenham Hotspur during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC at Emirates Stadium on January 15, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-348591\" title=\"Tottenham injury crisis bigger than Arsenal's ahead of North London derby 2\"\/>Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/arsenal-injury-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal, as you know, have their own problems<\/a>, with injury ruling out <strong>Gabriel Jesus<\/strong>, <strong>Kai Havertz<\/strong>, <strong>Noni Madueke<\/strong>, <strong>Gabriel<\/strong>, <strong>Martin Odegaard<\/strong>, <strong>Gabriel Martinelli<\/strong> and <strong>Viktor Gyokeres<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Spurs\u2019 situation, however, is worse.<\/p>\n<p>They will be without <strong>James Maddison<\/strong> (knee), <strong>Dejan Kulusevski<\/strong> (knee), <strong>Dominic Solanke<\/strong> (ankle), <strong>Ben Davies<\/strong> (thigh), <strong>Radu Dragusin<\/strong> (knee), <strong>Yves Bissouma<\/strong> (ankle), <strong>Archie Gray<\/strong> (calf), <strong>Randal Kolo Muani<\/strong> (jaw) and <strong>Kota Takai<\/strong> (thigh).<\/p>\n<p>There are also doubts over <strong>Lucas Bergvall<\/strong> (concussion), <strong>Mohammed Kudus<\/strong> and <strong>Pape Matar Sarr<\/strong>. <strong>Cristian Romero<\/strong> is being assessed but is expected to play.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/arsenal-fc-v-tottenham-hotspur-fc-premier-league-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 15: James Maddison of Tottenham Hotspur drinks from arsenal water bottle during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC at Emirates Stadium on January 15, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-348592\" title=\"Tottenham injury crisis bigger than Arsenal's ahead of North London derby 3\"\/>Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The North London derby arrives with Arsenal eight points ahead of Spurs in the Premier League table, with one more goal scored and five fewer conceded. <\/p>\n<p>Recent history is also in Arsenal\u2019s favour. They have won five of the last six Premier League meetings, drawing the other, and are on their longest winning run in the fixture since the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"935\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/arsenal-v-spurs-injury.png\" alt=\"A dark-themed graphic titled \u201cInjured and suspended players\u201d shows two columns listing Arsenal and Tottenham players, each with a small headshot, a red medical cross icon, and details of their injuries and expected return dates.&#10;&#10;In the left column, the Arsenal section lists:&#10;\u2022 Gabriel, muscle injury, early December 2025.&#10;\u2022 Gabriel Jesus, cruciate ligament injury, mid December 2025.&#10;\u2022 Gabriel Martinelli, thigh injury, early December 2025.&#10;\u2022 Kai Havertz, knee injury, early December 2025.&#10;\u2022 Martin \u00d8degaard, knee injury, late November 2025.&#10;\u2022 Noni Madueke, knee injury, early December 2025.&#10;\u2022 Riccardo Calafiori, physical discomfort, doubtful.&#10;&#10;In the right column, the Tottenham section lists:&#10;\u2022 Archie Gray, muscle injury, mid December 2025.&#10;\u2022 Ben Davies, muscle injury, late November 2025.&#10;\u2022 Dejan Kulusevski, knee injury, early December 2025.&#10;\u2022 Dominic Solanke, ankle injury, late December 2025.&#10;\u2022 James Maddison, cruciate ligament injury, early January 2026.&#10;\u2022 Kota Takai, foot injury, doubtful.&#10;\u2022 Lucas Bergvall, concussion, doubtful.&#10;\u2022 Mohammed Kudus, knock, doubtful.&#10;\u2022 Radu Dragusin, cruciate ligament injury, late November 2025.&#10;\u2022 Randal Kolo Muani, broken jaw, early January 2026.&#10;\u2022 Yves Bissouma, knock, doubtful.\" class=\"wp-image-348594\" title=\"Tottenham injury crisis bigger than Arsenal's ahead of North London derby 4\" \/>Arsenal and Tottenham\u2019s injured players (via FotMob)<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham have lost seven of their last nine league games against Arsenal, the same number of defeats they suffered across the previous 25. Their record at the Emirates is even worse. Arsenal have lost just once in their last 32 Premier League home games against Spurs, a 3-2 defeat in 2010, and have scored in all 26 home derbies since.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have also scored at least twice in each of the last eight home meetings, their longest home scoring streak against any opponent in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The North London derby rarely follows any script, but on form, availability and with the weight of their recent record, Spurs arrive at the Emirates for the first time under <strong>Thomas Frank<\/strong> with far more to overcome than the Gunners. <\/p>\n<p>The pressure, however, is all on <strong>Mikel Arteta<\/strong>\u2018s side who will hope to maintain their four-point lead over <strong>Manchester City<\/strong>, who could cut that gap to a single point on Saturday evening when they play <strong>Newcastle United<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/2025\/11\/michael-oliver-ref-arsenal-spurs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Michael Oliver <\/strong>returns to referee an Arsenal game<\/a> for the first time since he farcically sent off <strong>Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/strong> in January. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuart Atwell <\/strong>will be on VAR.<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham head into the North London derby with a growing injury crisis, with up to 13 players unavailable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[183274,748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-583751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-arsenal-vs-tottenham-hotspur","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115585238627095491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}