Tottenham Hotspur have their biggest game of the season so far next on the schedule, as they must do battle with Premier League leaders Arsenal next Sunday in their first match after the November international break.
Their performance in the 2-2 draw with Manchester United simply will not cut it against Arsenal, who have been easily the best team in the Premier League and are literally flirting with history defensively. And even if Gabriel Magalhaes doesn't play, Arsenal will still have an elite defense to go up against a Tottenham attack that has been abhorrent in the 2025/26 season.
The writers on the official Premier League website have seen the 2025/26 season so far, and they believe Arsenal are indeed the favorites to win the title. Out of the five writers who predicted the remainder of the season's table, three of them chose the Gunners to take home the title for the first time in decades.
Tottenham are in the Aston Villa zone again
Meanwhile, Spurs fans should be concerned and a little miffed by how the Premier League's official writers view Tottenham. Literally none of the five even ranked Spurs in the top five. Their highest ranking was sixth behind Manchester United. Two of the writers placed Spurs in seventh, while one of them had Tottenham ranked eighth behind even Aston Villa and Newcastle.
That is massively disrespectful to have Tottenham, a current Champions League team that most pundits have finishing in the top five, not even in the top five at all and as low as eighth. Then again, Spurs have literally lost to Aston Villa and Newcastle head to head this season in either the Premier League or League Cup, and they were honestly not better than Man United either.
So while the Premier League site is disrespecting Spurs, the most honest of Tottenham fans has to reflect on this and state that it is deserved, and there can be no qualms about Arsenal being either first or second in the running.
All of that sets Tottenham up as major underdogs in the North London Derby, and the official site's valuation of the team should be bulletin board material for manager Thomas Frank, captain Cristian Romero, and rest of the key Tottenham players to refer to in the build up to next Sunday's all important battle. Because right now, Spurs are miles behind not only Arsenal in first in terms of quality and perception, but they are even behind the likes of Man United.