Former Manchester United defender and pundit Gary Neville described Tottenham as "little boys" compared to their rivals Arsenal after a difficult first half in the North London Derby. Spurs started out with some intensity, but that soon fizzled out as the away side took a grip on the game.
They then turned it into a lead as Bukayo Saka's mazy run on the right saw him unleash a ball across the face of the box, where Hugo Lloris then parried it into his own net. That dominance continued, with everything going through the right with Saka causing plenty of problems.
He then set up the second goal as he laid the ball into Martin Odegaard, who fired his shot from range into the bottom corner beyond Lloris. It was a score line that summed up the first half for Spurs, who have been used to such scenes across their whole season so far.
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There will be hopes from the home faithful that they can continue their trend of recovering from such positions throughout the campaign. However, the performance gave them little to be encouraged by, as summarised by Neville in his assessment of the clash.
He said on Sky Sports: "It's absolutely brilliant from Arsenal. Spurs don’t win the first ball, they don’t win the second ball, he pops it around the corner to Saka who is in acres of space, which is unforgivable with the back five, but once it comes into Odegaard - he had a sighter earlier in the half - but this time he wasn’t going to make the [same] mistake.
"It’s a wonderful finish and no more than Arsenal deserve. Spurs are playing like little boys out there, and Arsenal look the real deal. Lloris nowhere near it. Brilliant from the captain. There was a feeling brewing that it would be a massive result for Spurs to get in at 1-0, I think it would be a result for them to get in at 2-0 and still give them some type of chance, Conte some type of chance, to have a word at half-time and get them going. They’re well short in this game so far, the home team."
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