Arsenal Chasing Chelsea, Liverpool Records In Quest For Overdue Premier League Title

Arsenal person presided complete nan meanest defence successful nan Premier League successful each of nan past 2 seasons, but it has ne'er been rather capable to present nan eventual prize.

Mikel Arteta has built his Arsenal team, first and foremost, connected coagulated foundations, reminiscent of nan 2 awesome Gunners sides assembled by Arsène Wenger during nan first half of his 22-year reign successful northbound London—and overmuch little truthful successful nan 2nd half.

In hunt of a first Premier League title since Wenger’s ‘Invincibles’ successful 2003–04, now shockingly much than 2 decades agone and nan club’s longest specified drought since their astir caller promotion successful 1919, Arsenal have turned it up moreover much erstwhile it comes to shutting teams out.

The Gunners beryllium apical of nan Premier League array aft 8 games, conscionable awkward of a 4th of nan measurement done 2025–26 already. Aside from winning six of those fixtures, thereby dropping only 5 points from nan 24 connected connection truthful far, what’s striking is nan goals conceded column.

Manchester City (17) and Chelsea (16) person marginally outscored Arsenal (15), while Liverpool, Bournemouth and Tottenham Hotspur person netted conscionable erstwhile little often. But nan Gunners are unrivalled erstwhile it comes to letting them in, aliases keeping them retired arsenic is much accurate.

Mikel Arteta has built an unthinkable protect unit. / Justin Setterfield/Getty Images

So far, Arsenal’s backline has been breached conscionable 3 times successful nan league. It’s an mean of 0.375 per game, a amended number than 2 of nan all-time awesome protect teams successful English football.

Highlighted by The Times, Liverpool’s grounds of fewest goals conceded complete nan people of an English convention play (16 successful 42 games, 1978–79) averages astatine 0.381 per game. In nan Premier League era, Chelsea’s grounds of 15 goals conceded successful 38 games successful 2004–05 remains unbroken—that’s 0.395.

Arsenal still person 30 Premier League fixtures to play this season, but some records are nether threat.

Arteta has had a preferred quartet of Jurriën Timber, William Saliba, Gabriel and Riccardo Calafiori, but it hasn’t ever been imaginable to prime each 4 successful each game, speaking to an wide protect accuracy that allows replacements for illustration Myles Lewis-Skelly and Cristhian Mosquera to efficaciously plug and play without nan squad experiencing a driblet successful protect performance.

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