Lloris prevents Spurs implosion

The debate surrounding a succession of contentious decisions will prolong the fallout from the latest North London derby yet while Arsenal left Wembley Stadium convinced they would have been worthy recipients of all three points, it was Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur side who gained most from the stalemate.

Had Spurs suffered a third successive Premier League defeat having lost at Burnley and Chelsea, ambitious talk about their chances of winning the title would have been replaced with mutterings about their ability to hold on to their place in the top four inside the space of a week.