The north London rivals made an encouraging start to the new season with 13 points from their first five games and a home win against struggling Manchester United.
Postecoglou has driven rapid change at Spurs, who have been completely rejuvenated by a manager whose tireless focus on attacking football has breathed new life into a club that had three different managers last season.
But Merson believes Spurs need to come up with a different game plan if they are to take anything away from the Emirates Stadium tomorrow. Emirates Stadium is the venue where they have won just one of their last 30 league matches.
‘I can’t see anything but an Arsenal win, I think they’ll absolutely slaughter them I really do,’ said the former Arsenal star. ‘I think they’ll rip them to shreds.
I don’t think they’ll change the way they play. Man United had 14 shots against them in the first half the other week. Give Arsenal 14 shots tomorrow and we’ll see what happens in the first half.
Teams are having shots, they’re opening the game up, it’s end to end. They’re going you have a go, we’ll have a go. It’s good football and I like the way they’re playing.
‘I like the manager and it’s gung-ho football. But you do that against better players and they’ll hurt you. Arsenal have got better players than Tottenham there’s no question about that all over the pitch.
‘Maddison is a good player but you wouldn’t take him over Odegaard any day of the week. Bissouma has done well but you wouldn’t take him over Rice, he’s a better player in my opinion.
‘Not many Tottenham players get in the Arsenal team and if you open the game up tomorrow Arsenal will destroy Tottenham and I mean destroy them.
‘If they play a counter-attacking game then it is a different football match but I don’t think the manager has got it in him to say let’s sit and counter-attack.’
