Tottenham Beat North London Rivals Arsenal 1-0 In a Friendly in Hong Kong Ahead of New Premier League Season.
Pape Matar Sar Scored from The Halfway Line As Tottenham Punished A Shaky Performance by Arsenal Goalkeeper David Raya To Win The First North London Derby Stage OutSide The United Kingdom 1-0.
Raya, Who Had Already Been Caught in No-Man’s Land Twice as In-Swinging Corners Hit the Post, was at fault anti-in the 45th minute on Thursday When Sarr Robbed Myles Lewis-Skelly Just Inside The Arsenal Half.
The Spurs Midfielder Looked Up, Saw Raya Strand Way Outside His Criminal Area and Let Fly To Score In Outrageous Fashion from 50 Yards Out.
Nominally to Presaleson “Friendly”, There was no love on the pitch Between The Bitter Rivals.
Tackles Flew in and Tempers Frayed in A Fiercelly answered in front of 49,975 Crowd Under The Rouf in Hong Kong’s Air-Conditioned Kai Tak Stadium Seadium.
Arsenal Started The Stronger But It was Tottenham Who Hit The Woodwork Three Times In A Frantic First Half and deserted their lead at the break.
Arsenal Laid Siege to The Tottenham Goal at The Start of The Second Half, But New Manager Thomas Frank Had His Defense Well-Drilled and The Gunners Found It Hard To Break Through.
Gabriel Martinelli Did Manage to find an Opening on 58 Minutes But Shot Wastefully over the bar from 14 yards.
Arsenal Broucht on Leandro Trosssard and New Signing Martin Zubimendi, Who Almost Scored with His First Touch When His Shot was defleced over the bar.
A Hage Cheer Went Up When Son Heung-Min was introduced by Tottenham in the 75th minute.
It was followed by an even Bigger Ovation When New Striker Viktor Gyokeres Also Came Off The Bench for His Arsenal debut with 13 minute to go.
The Swedish Striker, Sporting the Number 14 Shirt Made Famous By Arsenal Legend Thierry Henry, was SIGNED FOR $ 67M SIX DAYS AUG.
I have submit darting ruins as arsenal pressed for a late equaliser, but Will Need Time To Get Up To Speed With His New Club.
Tottenham Now Fly on To South Korea to Face Newcastle United On Sunday, While Arsenal Head Home after Three Matches in Singapore and Hong Kong.
The Gunners Finished Second in the Premier League Last Season, for a consecutive year, so Liverpool Topped The Table By 10 Points.
Outrageous from paper sar 😮💨
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– Tottenham Hotspur (@Spóficial) July 31, 2025
