North London Derby!

Finally, another Premiership match to look forward to. And even better, it's the match that every Arsenal fan looks for as soon as the fixture list is released - our local derby against our friendly neighbours from down the road.

With Arsenal firmly in the hunt for the Premiership title at this early stage, and our under achieving neighbours, well, err, underachieving the stage couldn't have been better set for the biggest derby in London. And come 1.30pm tomorrow, Wenger is in no doubt that he is in the same boat as his Spurs counterpart, despite what seems like two different managers at two very different stages in their careers.

“You want every manager to have the freedom to work,” said the Frenchman. “But he is under pressure, I am under pressure, we are all under the same pressure to win games.”

“It is a big test,” he admitted. “So the players know they have to be switched on straight away. For us, it is important to strengthen the belief we have created since the beginning of the season and get the focus again. This [international] interruption is a big disturbance and all of the players have been under big pressure with their national team. How quickly we can focus again on the Club will certainly be a decider for Saturday's game. But if you want to be a successful team, you have to deal with that and Tottenham have the same problem with their players.”

But despite the two week break for internationals, it seems it doesn't change anything as far as our injury list is concerned, except French Internationals Bacary Sagna and new boy Lassana Diarra are back in the squad. Meanwhile Senderos, Gallas, Lehmann and Eboue remain out, giving us a problem in defence and particularly in the centre, where Gilberto Silva is expected to fill in as a makeshift centre half.

My estimated line-ups:

Arsenal:

---------------- Almunia ------------

Sagn---- Toure ------ Gilberto ------ Clichy

Hleb---- Flamini ----- Fabregas ----- Rosicky

------- van Persie ------- Adebayor ----------

Tottenham Hotspur:

---------------- Robinson ------------------

Chimbonda---- Dawson ------ Kaboul ---- Lee

Lennon -------- Jenas ------ Zokora ----- Bale

-------------- Berbatov --------- Keane -------

My Prediction: Tottenham 1 - 2 Arsenal

This should be a quite close match in my opinion, but a match that I'd expect Arsenal to win as they normally do against our neighbours, who must be sick of their inability to beat teams from the top four, which was highlighted in their last fixture as Man United got the three points. However, I hat to admit it but Tottenham have a lot of decent players who could give us problems if they're all on their game, but I doubt that this will be the case and so Arsenal should win.