Arguably the pick of this season’s ties in the third round of the League Cup takes place at White Hart Lane this evening as Tottenham Hotspur face fierce rivals Arsenal.

Mauricio Pochettino’s side go in to the game on a six game unbeaten run, having not lost since their defeat at Old Trafford on the opening day of the season.

They have won their last three matches, and go in to this fixture on the back of Sunday afternoon’s narrow win over Crystal Palace.

The hosts will be without injured midfield trio Ryan Mason, Nabil Bentaleb and Mousa Dembele, and Pochettino could ring the changes with one eye on Saturday’s Premier League clash with leaders Manchester City.

Harry Kane, who is still searching for his first club goal of the campaign is 6.5 (1/2) to open the scoring with most firms, ahead of man of the moment Heung-Min Son, who is a 9.0 (8/1) chance with Bet Victor having netted his third in three Spurs’ appearances with the winner at the weekend.

The home win is as highly priced as the 3.0 (2/1) on offer from a number of bookmakers, with the visitors widely available at 2.4 (7/5). The draw can be backed at 3.6 (13/5).

Arsene Wenger’s side go in to the game on the back of back-to-back defeats having lost at Dinamo Zagreb in the opening Champions League fixture a week ago and then at Chelsea on Saturday afternoon.

Wenger is likely to include youth players such as Alex Iwobi and Glenn Kamara in his match-day squad while Francis Coquelin has joined Jack Wilshere, Tomas Rosicky and Danny Welbeck on the side-lines.

Iwobi is 10.0 (9/1) to get the first goal of the game with Ladbrokes, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain a 15.0 (14/1) shot with Stan James.
Spurs won the last North London derby 2-1 at White Hart Lane back in February, while the sides played out a 1-1 draw at the Emirates Stadium last November.

You can back both teams to score, as has been the case in their last five clashes in the League Cup, at 1.57 (4/7) here.