Sky's the limit for Spurs following North London victory

North London is now officially Spurs territory this following Harry Kane’s winner in Saturday’s derby against bitter rivals Arsenal. Kane scored his seventh goal in as many games against Arsenal and in the process earned his team three valuable points, the bragging rights and flipped the script in London’s footballing circles. Spurs are with certainty THE team in North London and could be the capital’s premier side by season’s end.

With their win against Arsenal Spurs have tallied up a good return of seven points from their three games against top six sides and now find themselves in third four points behind second placed Manchester United. While this may change as rivals Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United are to play later this weekend, Spurs showed themselves to be well adept at handling the sides around them in successive games and will count this as psychological boost to achieving their goals.

Champions Chelsea have been floundering in recent weeks and have been left reeling after successive heavy defeats, while Liverpool - after becoming the first team to hand City their first domestic defeat this season - had their bubble burst when they lost at Swansea and following their draw against Spurs only have four points from their last three matches. Manchester United were thoroughly outplayed at Wembley and were lucky to have kept the score down only to two. Arsenal look a long way off from being any sort of challenge with defeat against Spurs being their third consecutive loss away from home and more consequently they’ve lost two of their last three league matches.

Judging from current events Spurs look to have emerged out the other end better off after a grueling run of fixtures while their rivals have had a tough run of things either against Spurs or lesser sides. And those results may yet prove to be pivotal in the shake up towards a European spot at the end of the season, and just maybe could help them to push further into the latter stages of the Champion’s League because if this is how they handle adversity it’s safe to say only a handful of teams would be capable of stopping them.