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Ten Premier League games, four in the Champions League, one humiliating night in Lancashire. That's the first quarter of Arsenal's title defence, and it's produced a team that sits six points clear at the top of the league, unbeaten in Europe, and out of the Carabao Cup at the hands of a side 18th in League Two.
David Hole · 10 Nov 2026
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Seventy-two minutes. That's how long Hull City held out at the Emirates on Saturday, and when the breakthrough finally came it wasn't pretty. Noni Madueke's shot was saved by Konstantinos Tzolakis, the ball ran loose, and Martin Ødegaard got there first to dink it over the goalkeeper. Arsenal 1, Hull City 0.
David Hole · 9 Nov 2026
Opinion
Every few weeks the same conversation starts up. Bukayo Saka isn't the player he was. He's lost a yard. He's in a dip. He doesn't look right.
David Hole · 20 Oct 2026
Opinion
Eighty minutes. That is how long it took Arsenal to put a shot on target at the City Ground, and when it finally came, it needed a deflection off Jair Cunha to wrong-foot Matz Sels. Nottingham Forest 0, Arsenal 1. Noni Madueke, 80th minute. One effort on target all afternoon, and it was enough.
David Hole · 20 Oct 2026
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Arsenal arrived unbeaten, chasing an eighth straight win to start the season — their best opening to a campaign in 123 years. They left having been taken apart by a Brighton side that out-fought, out-thought and out-ran them from the first whistle. The scoreline read 3-0. The performance, by Arteta's own admission, was worse than that.
David Hole · 22 Sept 2026
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Nine changes from the side that ground out victory at Sunderland, two teenagers making their first starts of the season, and a scoreline that still ended up looking comfortable: Ipswich 2, Arsenal 4. Arsenal are through to the Carabao Cup fourth round, and while the closing stages got needlessly untidy, the story of the night at Portman Road was set inside the opening quarter of an hour — by a 16-year-old who took the ball off his own centre-forward's toes in his head and went and won the game himself.
David Hole · 16 Sept 2026
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