Spurs win, end Arsenal’s bragging rights

Dele Alli and Harry Kane kept Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League title hunt as their side torpedoed Arsenal 2-0 in White Hart Lane’s last north London derby on Sunday. This will be the first time in 23 years that Spurs will finish ahead of Gunners in points table.

Leaders Chelsea extended their advantage to seven points by winning 3-0 at Everton earlier in the day, but Mauricio Pochettino’s Spurs cut the gap back to four points with a thrilling display. The two goals arrived within 146 seconds of each other in the second half, Alli polishing off a rebound and Kane netting a penalty to take their respective goal tallies to 17 and 21 for the campaign.

Meanwhile, Gabriel Jesus’s header five minutes from time saw Manchester City to a 2-2 draw at relegation-threatened Middlesbrough as his side stayed just ahead in the race for a Champions League spot. Icelandic international

At the halftime I just told the boys that you won’t get another such 45 minutes in your life. We had to extra special.

Gylfi Sigurdsson’s sublime freekick helped Swansea gain a deserved point against United.

Barcelona came through a testing local derby at Espanyol, winning 3-0 to cling to their slender lead at the top of La Liga after rivals Real Madrid had set the challenge by beating Valencia 2-1 in the earlier kickoff. Barca triumphed thanks to two clinical finishes from Luis Suarez and a strike from Ivan Rakitic following a vintage slalom run by Lionel Messi.

Suarez pounced on a disastrous backpass from Jose Manuel Jurado to break the deadlock in the 50th minute and Rakitic sealed the win in the 76th by sidefooting home Messi’s cutback after the Argentine had torn through the home defence. Suarez, who had failed to score in his previous five games in all competitions, took advantage of another calamitous error by the otherwise impressive Espanyol backline and rifled in Barca’s third from close range in 87th minute.