Arsenal settle at the top Premier League after beating Brighton & Hove Albion. Signs The Gunners League championship is approaching.
Arsenal close out the year with a visit to the Amex Stadium, Sunday (1/1/2023) WIB morning or Saturday evening local time. Bukayo Saka opened up Arsenal’s lead in the second minute.
Three more goals were scored by Martin Odegaard, Eddie Nketiah and Gabriel Martinelli. Brighton had cut the score twice through Kaoru Mitoma and Evan Ferguson to make it 2-4.
Three valuable points for Arsenal as they are now seven points clear at the top of the Premier League standings, over Manchester City which Everton drew 1-1. Arsenal have 43 points from 16 games.
This is Arsenal’s best start in the Premier League, which also paves the way up the league ladder.
Reason given Sky Sports, no team has managed to become a champion after picking up 43 or more points in their first 16 games. Previously there were Tottenham Hotspur (1960/1961), Manchester City (2017/2018) and Liverpool (2019/2020) with 46 points.
Then there’s Chelsea with 43 points in the 2005/2006 season. In fact, only one team has failed to win the league after taking seven points at the start of the year at the top, and that’s Liverpool in 2018/2019.
Seeing the progress of Arsenal, who have only drawn once in their last 10 games, it looks like it will be difficult for any team, City included, to stop him.
“We still have to play all the matches, now we have to be focused again and evaluate each of our performances, which ones have been good and which ones need to be improved,” said the coach. Arsenal Mikel Artetta Of BBCSport.
“We know what’s going on, but we have to focus on ourselves, where we have to beat a tough team at home and it really works.”
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