It placed a marker down for Mikel Arteta that, this time, the Gunners aren’t going to fade away like they did last season. That they’re no longer there for the taking in the biggest games.
The victory meant that they went joint top of the table with north London rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, with whom they have an identical record and goal difference but are placed second by virtue of the fact that Spurs have scored 18 goals – two more than Arsenal.
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Thanks to some superb business in the summer transfer window, Arteta’s side look much better equipped to sustain a title challenge this season, and as long as injuries to key players don’t start to bite as they did during 2022/23, there’s every reason to believe that they’ll be there or thereabouts at the business end.
There’s clearly one position where the manager wants to strengthen, however, and that’s up front.
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