When the sides met at Tottenham's stadium in December goals from Son Heung-min and Harry Kane gave Spurs a 2-0 win which put them on top of the Premier League table and left Arsenal 15th.
With both sides in the last 16 of the Europa League their more likely routes to European qualification, particularly in Arsenal's case, could be by winning that competition.
They meekly surrendered and once again went out of Europe with a whimper. With February not even up, their season looks over and pressure is mounting on coach Jorge Jesus.
Instead of keeping the faith in his young players and pushing on, Lage left and veteran coach Jesus returned to the club.
*It's great that we've secured Martin to come to us until the end of the season.
* Martin will provide us with quality offensive options and we're all excited to be integrating him into our plans between now and May.
Tuesday's win was Arsenal's first back-to-back league victories since the opening two games of the season and Arteta said it should give the players more belief.
"The transfer window is a window of opportunity for all the clubs to rebalance their squads. It can be players coming in, or players going out. We are ready to react if that is the case."
The opening match of the campaign will be played between Arsenal and Fulham at the Craven Cottage, while Liverpool will take on returning Leeds United later in the day at the Anfield.
Soccer players have shown their support for the movement and Wenger believes the fact that so many black players have made the grade shows the sport does not suffer from racism.
"I would say football is by essence anti-racist," Frenchman Wenger said i