Bukayo Saka sends brutal two-word message to Tottenham after Arsenal North London Derby win

Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka has reiterated to Tottenham that North London is “still ours” after they ran out 1-0 winners over their arch enemy on Sunday afternoon. A second-half header from Gabriel proved the difference as the Gunners recorded their third win from four matches this season. Mikel Arteta’s side sit second in the Premier League table on 10 points from a possible 12 and only behind leaders Manchester City.

It was a fine away performance from Arsenal and Saka played an influential role in the victory, setting up the winning goal. His inswinging corner found the head of Gabriel, who powered home from less than six yards to open the scoring. Apart from that, the Gunners were solid defensively and didn’t give Tottenham too much to work with despite missing several key players including Declan Rice and Martin Odegaard.

Arsenal have now secured three successive away victories over Tottenham in the Premier League since that 3-0 defeat back in May 2022. They were 2-0 victors in January 2023 and 3-2 winners in April 2024, but this latest success felt even bigger due to the calibre of players the Gunners were missing.

After the game, Saka took to Instagram to remind Spurs of Arsenal’s recent record against their biggest rivals. He said in a post: “Still Ours!” alongside the pin emoji and the red love heart emoji. Matchwinner Gabriel commented with two love heart emojis.

Rice also reacted to the win, putting an Instagram story live with the caption: “I love this team!!!!!!” followed by three love heart emojis and the love heart eyes emoji.

Meanwhile, Arteta was delighted with his side’s performance. He said in his post-match press conference: “Well, I’m super happy, obviously. We know what it means to our club, to our people to win a London derby, and we have the power to try to make them very happy.

“So hopefully we have achieved that and that makes it very special. On the performance we had moments in the game, some really good ones, some others that we have to suffer. We suffered because we have to adapt a little bit the plan because of the players that we had available.

“I loved it because since the day that we started to get by, the team got hungrier and hungrier to play the game and that’s a big compliment to everybody at the club to behave in a certain way.

“It’s a tough week that’s coming up, and instead of finding any little excuses or arguments to do that – the opposite, face the challenge, play with courage, acknowledge our qualities and what we have to be able to do to win a game, and we’ve actually done it.”