Despite the draining international break, a rejuvenated Arsenal side built on our recent league form with the best kind of win.

Six years ago lasagne ruined Spurs’ hope of cancelling St. Totteringham’s day and on Sunday our very own Le Sagna took centre stage with a thumping header to get us back in the game to help put North London superiority back in the balance for 2012.

Laurent Koscielny and Kieran Gibbs face late fitness tests before huge derby.

Since the League Cup win in 1987 Arsenal have always been in the mix for trophies. Semi-finals and Finals have been regular fixtures for even the more average sides in our recent history with classic title chases enjoyed by our more complete line-ups.

After Kieran Gibbs’ latest setback ruled him out for a month Arsene Wenger has admitted that he may be forced into making an unplanned January signing. The problem for the manager is that he already has two players for each full back position so if he spends money on a quality deputy, he will inevitably be forced to let a player leave in the summer as opportunities will be restricted once our bizarre injury flare up has eased.

Mikel Arteta’s calm appeared to encase our side at the DW stadium last week.