Arsenal Lead Fight for Premier League Title After Liverpool Stumble
Though Liverpool started the season with a run of five successive wins, there was a sense among those who had paid attention to how Arne Slot’s side were actually performing that something was amiss at Anfield, and so it has proven.
The Merseyside outfit have subsequently nose-dived, with many citing the complications of too many new signings having to gel together at once being a factor, and this has left many eying up Arsenal as very much the team to beat when it comes to the Premier League title race.
Emirates Stadium boss Mikel Arteta has taken the Gunners to second spot three seasons in a row, and over the summer, the Spaniard made the kind of acquisitions the club’s loyal fanbase has been praying for, and thus far, they have barely put a foot wrong.
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Arteta now has genuine strength in depth throughout his squad and a focal point up front in Vikor Gyokeres, helping to put teams away. However, arguably, it’s Arsenal’s defence that is the real star of the show.
Over the course of their first twelve games in all competitions, eight Premier League matches, three UEFA Champions League clashes, and a Carabao Cup fixture, Arsenal have incredibly conceded just three goals, one of those being the stunning free-kick from Hungarian midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai, which completed a win for Liverpool that is still Arteta’s only defeat of the campaign.
Keeper David Raya has been immaculate, though it’s worth noting that he has not had much to do thanks to the collective efforts of a near-flawless back four composed of Jurrien Timber, William Saliba, Gabriel, and Riccardo Calafiori.
The fact that Arteta has also managed to get a great deal out of the likes of Cristhian Mosquera and Myles Lewis-Skelly is a testament to the embarrassment of riches the Arsenal manager has to call upon.
They sit top of the table, and that’s despite the fact that in their first eight Premier League games, they’ve already faced the likes of Liverpool, Manchester United, and Newcastle United away from home, and Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium.
As well as Gyokores, Arteta has seen other summer signings put in a great run of form, including Spanish midfielder Martin Zubimendi and playmaker Ebereche Eze. It’s telling that the club’s resurgence in form has come despite not having captain Martin Odegaard to call upon, with the Norwegian suffering a string of injuries that have meant the skipper has started just five of Arsenal’s first dozen games, and been subbed off early in three of those.
Critics will point to the fact that Arsenal are too reliant on set pieces to get the ball into the back of the net, but Arteta will take goals where he can get them, and the fact that in the Premier League alone they’ve already had ten different goalscorers shows the variety of options he has in the final third, and that variety looks all the more impressive when you compare and contrast that to how Pep Guardiola overly relied on Erling Haaland for an end product at Manchester City.
