Mikel Arteta
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Soccer
Arsenal vs Manchester United Preview – Title Chargers take on Top Four chasers
Arsenal and Manchester United still feels like capital-letter football. Even when the eras change, even when the squads turn over, it carries that big-game hum the second you glance at the fixture list. Sunday afternoon at the Emirates, the stakes are sharp. Arsenal sit top of the table, protecting a…
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Why are there so few goals in the Premier League this year?
Premier League leaders Arsenal have just been held to back-to-back 0–0 draws, first at home to Liverpool and then away at Nottingham Forest. It is the first time they have gone consecutive goalless games in the Premier League since 2012. On its own, that would be a curiosity. In context,…
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Arsenal vs Liverpool Preview – the Gunners have the chance to go eight points clear!
Manchester City’s 1–1 draw with Brighton has shifted the shape of the title race, and suddenly this fixture feels even heavier. Arsenal walk out at the Emirates knowing that victory would take them eight points clear of City, a margin that starts to feel meaningful even this early in the…
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Champions League MW6 Review – Perfect Arsenal, Relieved Liverpool, and Lennart Karl
Champions League Matchday 6 had everything: comeback chaos, teenage stardom, a brewing crisis (that to me seems overblown) in Madrid, and one very loud audition for a World Cup ticket from Marseille. Here is how it all fits together. Our Champions League Team Of The Week is in with some…
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Premier League
Chelsea vs Arsenal Preview – an early Premier League title decider
Late November, West London, under the lights at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea vs Arsenal usually sells itself, but this one comes with extra weight. It is first vs second in the Premier League, with Arsenal leading the pack and Chelsea six points behind heading into Matchweek 13. That gap makes Sunday…
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Can anyone stop Arsenal from winning the Premier League?
Arsenal did not so much creep to the top of the table this season as slam the door behind them and twist the key. Twelve games in, they are first, they have the best defence, they have one solitary league defeat and they have turned Sunday afternoons into a kind…
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