Jamie O’Hara was not a happy bunny after the north London derby, saying: “We are the same old Spurs”.
The ex-Tottenham midfielder made a bold prediction ahead of Sunday’s game and unsurprisingly it backfired.
“I’m confident we are going to rock up on Sunday and give them a whopping,” he said.
Tottenham then made it three home defeats in a row against Arsenal after falling to a 1-0 defeat to the Gunners thanks to a goal from Gabriel Magalhaes.
While Mikel Arteta’s side were without several core first-teamers in Declan Rice, Martin Odegaard and Riccardo Calafiori, Tottenham failed to take control of the game, something that left O’Hara very frustrated.
Speaking on The Sports Breakfast, O’Hara said: “It’s the same old Spurs and it’s a dagger to the heart when people say that, but we are the same old Spurs.
“We played well but we don’t score – take your chances. We’ve brought in good players and you expect them to do the business.
“But I look at it and think have we brought in top players? Solanke, one good season at Bournemouth and we signed him for £60million.
“Brennan Johnson, a good player and a young player at Nottingham Forest. We signed him for £50million and he looks miles off it.
“Then I look at Archie Gray who we signed from Leeds, he’s a Championship player and then we signed Odobert from Burnley.
“Daniel Levy has built this big shiny stadium and it’s only enjoyable to go to when Beyonce’s on!
“We’re not signing a top player from Barcelona or Atletico Madrid or someone who is actually at the level of where we want to be.
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“We don’t sign anybody from any big clubs but then expect the boys that we sign to perform like they’re in a Champions League team.
“We aren’t good enough, it’s as simple as that. You can play good football but we can’t put the ball in the back of the net because we’re not good enough.”
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O’Hara added: “I was disappointed, again.
“I really went into this game feeling confident – no Rice, no Odegaard and I thought we could go into it and really go at them in midfield but we were poor.
“Brennan Johnson was miles off it. Honestly, miles off it. He hides behind players.
“Solanke, I know he’s been injured, but I need more from him – it may as well have been Richarlison out there.
“If you’re going to sign Solanke he’s got to score goals but he’s offering us nothing.
“Son, poor again. An average performance and then you’ve got Romero at the back. I love Romero but he’s cost us four goals already this season. It’s not good enough.
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“Arsenal, full credit to them because watching them live, they are brilliant defensively. They’re happy to sit in, don’t want to concede and don’t want to be Manchester City and play fantastic football for 90 minutes – they’re happy to be resilient and they were resilient.
“We couldn’t break them down. We could have been there all day trying to score goals and we wouldn’t have scored. It wasn’t good enough.
“Ange needs to be better, the players need to be better, it wasn’t good enough. That was a terrible result.”
