5 of the best North London derbies of the Premier League era

#3 Arsenal 5 - 2 Tottenham, 26/02/2012

Theo Walcott scored two of his five derby goals in one game

After a rare win in 2010 at the Emirates, Tottenham reverted to type as they haven't won there in the last six visits and a couple of defeats have been really bad ones.

In February 2012, Spurs looked set for another three points at the Emirates after a bright start. They had a golden chance to beat their North London rivals away from home in back to back games for the first time in 86 years when Louis Saha's early strike and an Emmanuel Adebayor penalty made it 2-0 by the 35th-minute mark.

By half-time, it was 2-2 as Bacary Sagna and Robin van Persie scored in the final minutes of the half, and it got even worse for Spurs in the second.

Tomas Rosicky made it 3-2 after 51 minutes and two Theo Walcott goals sealed the deal for Wenger's men. Scott Parker was sent off late on for a second bookable offense.

The match turned out to be one of two consecutive 5-2 derby wins for Arsenal at the Emirates. During the same year in November, Tottenham once again couldn't pull off a positive result after a good start. Former Gunner Adebayor again scored against his former side in the 10th minute, but he was sent off shortly after that for a lunge on Santi Cazorla.

Interestingly, red cards have been rare after the two fiery matches in 2012 with Coquelin's sending off in 2016 the only one in ten league meetings.

On this day, in 2012Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham pic.twitter.com/iMmIpBwKhI

— MPLS/STP Gooners (@MSPGooners) February 26, 2017