There is a comforting version of what happened at Brighton. Arsenal were due one. They had won every league game, conceded once, travelled repeatedly and finally ran into a Brighton side playing with the emotion of their 125th anniversary behind
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Sunderland got the match they wanted at the Stadium of Light. Arsenal won it anyway, and that tells us more about this team than another comfortable afternoon ever could. For long stretches at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland refused to
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Viktor Gyökeres had nine touches in 73 minutes in Naples. The number matters less than what those touches looked like. His best contribution came early, when he moved into the right channel and bent a clever trivela towards Bukayo Saka
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Seventy-seven seconds in, Chelsea had exactly what they wanted: a lead and a game they could stretch. Xabi Alonso’s side left three or four players high even when Arsenal had corners. Pedro Neto stayed ready to sprint into the right
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The most revealing number from Cardiff was 41 per cent. That was Arsenal’s possession share. Manchester City completed 519 passes to Arsenal’s 352 and took 12 shots to nine. Arsenal still produced 2.19 xG to City’s 0.77 and won 3-0.
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