Arsenal 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur: Gunners narrow gap on Liverpool with derby win

Goalkeeper Kinsky has made an impressive start since joining Spurs in a £12.5m deal from Slavia Prague.

He delivered a confident performance on his debut in the EFL Cup semi-final against Liverpool, and was then one of Spurs’ more creditable performers as they eventually found the path to victory at National League Tamworth in the FA Cup third round.

Here, in the hothouse of a north London derby, life got tougher for the promising 21-year-old, especially in the face of Arsenal’s set-piece threat.

Kinsky had clearly decided on a strategy of punching corners clear rather than trying to catch in a penalty area crowd scene, a ploy which worked well until just before half-time when Rice’s corner drifted over his head at the far post, leading to Arsenal’s equaliser from a Solanke own goal.

And his frustrated reaction after Trossard’s winner suggested he knew he should have dealt better with the Belgian’s effort.

This is all part of life for a young goalkeeper at elite level, with Kinsky having shown plenty of promise as he gets his chance while Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou is missing first choice Guglielmo Vicario and deputy Fraser Forster.

And this defeat was not down to Kinsky, with Spurs simply not offering enough in attack apart from a brief first-half spell before Son’s goal.

And Spurs certainly looked to have a clear grievance with the corner that led to that crucial equaliser, when the ball came last off Trossard but the decision went Arsenal’s way.

Postecoglou tried to pep his side up with the half-time introduction of James Maddison and Brennan Johnson for Yves Bissouma and Pape Matar Sarr, but it was all to no avail.