Overview
- Arsenal beat Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield on Sunday with a Kai Havertz goal and moved three points clear at the top of the Premier League with 24 points from nine matches.
- Multiple former players and pundits, including Ashley Williams, Peter Schmeichel, Paul Merson and Steven Gerrard, have said the performance underlined Arsenal as the team most likely to win the title this season.
- Opta data cited in coverage shows Liverpool were held to zero shots on target at Anfield for the first time in the Premier League era, a defensive display that pundits called a championship-quality performance.
- Brighton’s 1-0 win over Manchester City has lifted them into third and put them in the wider title conversation, though analysts warned their smaller squad and European commitments could limit their run.
- Other matchday stories include Lisandro Martinez’s red card for Manchester United after two bookings in 82 seconds, Nottingham Forest’s mismatch between high xG and low goals that leaves Oliver Glasner under pressure, Tottenham’s three-game winning run under De Zerbi, and a series of contentious refereeing and VAR incidents such as Estevao’s razor-thin offside disallowance and a debated shirt pull on Alexander Isak.