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Match report: Tottenham 2-1 Arsenal

By Rob Kelly

WHAT HAPPENED

We lost the first north London derby at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium despite taking the lead through Alex Lacazette’s stunning strike.

For long stretches we looked the more threatening of the two sides, but paid the price for some slack defending and headed back up the Seven Sisters Road empty handed.

It had started so well too, when Lacazette received the ball 25 yards out, and took one look up before arrowing an unstoppable shot into the top corner.

But within 137 seconds the hosts had equalised when Sead Kolasinac’s misplaced pass back towards David Luiz put his team-mate in trouble, and Heung-min Son took full advantage.