Premier League

December 20, 2025 Goodison Park, Liverpool There was a symmetry to the setting. Arteta marked his sixth year as Arsenal manager in the same city where his English story had begun nearly two decades earlier. In early 2005, David Moyes was assembling a midfield capable of sustaining Everton’s improbable chase for Champions League football. He recalled a slight, technically gifted Spaniard who had caught his eye in a pre-season friendly with Real Sociedad the previous summer. Sc

December 13, 2025 Emirates Stadium, London Arsenal arrived as league leaders, Wolves as a side marooned at the bottom with only two points to their name. On paper, the imbalance suggested routine. In reality, it produced something far more unsettling — a match stretched taut until the final breath. The first 25 minutes passed with little disturbance to either penalty area. Timber glanced a header over from a central position — Gyökeres perhaps better placed — but clear chance

December 06, 2025 Villa Park, Birmingham Aston Villa entered the night on six consecutive victories, a run that had revived their campaign and restored Villa Park’s reputation as an inhospitable ground: only one league defeat in twenty-five home matches, that lone blemish inflicted by Arsenal last August. Unai Emery—whose North London tenure ended under a cloud—seemed driven by a private grievance, shared by the ever-combustible Emiliano Martínez. Their intensity shaped Villa

December 03, 2025 Emirates Stadium, London A summer of upheaval had reshaped Brentford long before autumn settled over the league. They lost their architect, Thomas Frank, to Tottenham; their captain, Christian Nørgaard, departed for Arsenal; and the attacking axis of Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa was drawn away by Manchester United and Newcastle. Yet from this exodus emerged an unexpected steadiness. In his first managerial post, Keith Andrews has shepherded the Bees to their

November 30, 2025 Stamford Bridge, London Chelsea, newly revitalised after their midweek 3–0 dismantling of Barcelona, entered the derby with conviction. Arsenal arrived as league leaders, unbeaten in sixteen, bearing the momentum of hard-won triumphs over Spurs and Bayern Munich. Both sides had taken four wins and a draw from their previous five matches—form suggesting symmetry. Debate crackled before kick-off over the likely balance of power in midfield—Rice or Caicedo—but

November 23, 2025 Emirates Stadium, London Arsenal arrived at this derby defending a 14-match unbeaten run across all competitions, a sequence that has steadied their ascent to the summit of the Premier League. And if there is one figure capable of sustaining such trajectories, it is Mikel Arteta. Since first captaining the side in 2012, he has never  lost a home match to Tottenham. Yet Spurs came with a distinction of their own: the only team still unbeaten away from home th

November 8, 2025 Stadium of light, Sunderland Granit Xhaka came home. Once the pariah of north London, booed and jeered by the same stands that would later rise to applaud him, he now stood again on English soil as Sunderland’s captain — and as one of the Premier League’s most unlikely redemption stories.  The Black Cats, reborn under Régis Le Bris, entered the match unbeaten at home and fourth in the table — the best start by a newly promoted side since Hull City in 2008. Ar

November 1st, 2025 Turf Moore, Burnley A poppy pinned to every chest. Arsenal in white, Burnley in claret. Black armbands, six wreaths laid on the turf, the flag lowered. The trumpet sang, and for a moment, silence reigned. Then, a roar—English remembrance breaking into Premier League noise. Arsenal arrived and Turf Moor met them with the usual hostility. Burnley pressed high, physical, uncompromising. Kyle Walker, the former City man marshalling a young side with old habits.

October 26, 2025 Emirates Stadium, London The Eagles, winless in 14 visits to the Emirates, arrived under Oliver Glasner disciplined and dangerous, their 19-game unbeaten run only just broken at Goodison Park. Community Shield winners, unbeaten in their first six league games, and now making their European debut with victories over Fredrikstad and Dynamo Kyiv.  Knee on the floor. Whistle. The game starts.Arsenal began sharply but Palace was strong. The first half was tense, c

October 18, 2025 Craven Cottage, Fulham They arrived in west London knowing this ground had not been kind. Fulham, fourteenth in the table, had not lost at Craven Cottage since early September; Arsenal had not won here since 2023. Fulham’s home form has been impressive. They had faced fewer shots at home than any side except Arsenal. Yet precedent mattered little. Mikel Arteta, now among the Premier League’s longest-serving managers, has forged a team that wins no matter what

3 October, 2025 Emirates Stadium, London For two seasons running, West Ham had found victory in north London. They arrived at the Emirates again, under a new manager and with old ambitions. Mikel Arteta, marking his 300th match in charge, reshuffled after the midweek win over Olympiacos. Gabriel returned fit, Timber and Calafiori reclaimed the flanks, and Bukayo Saka — making his 200th Premier League appearance — led the line. Declan Rice faced his former club, while Eberechi

September 28, 2025  St James’ Park, Newcastle The death of academy forward Billy Vigar (2003–2025) cast a pall over the squad. For supporters, memories of Reyes and Rocastle resurfaced — gifted players taken far too soon. Against Newcastle, history weighed black and white: four home wins in their last five against Arsenal — an unusual dominance, and a challenge to be broken. The match began and Arsenal struck first. Five minutes in, Gyökeres flicked on to Eberechi Eze, who fo

September 21, 2025  Emirates Stadium, London The shadow of February’s 5–1 thrashing still hangs heavy. That night Arsenal did not beat Manchester City; they dismantled them. Ødegaard opened with authority, Nwaneri—still a boy—lashed in a strike of adult certainty, and Lewis Kelly mocked Haaland with his own meditative celebration, palms pressed as if to murmur: be humble.  Martinelli, eternal tormentor, stitched his partnership with Havertz into something exquisite. Now, hist

September 13, 2025 Emirates Stadium, London Back from the international break, Arsenal’s squad did not return drained but sharpened. Merino struck four in two games for Spain, Ødegaard orchestrated Norway’s 11–1 demolition of Moldova, and Madueke and Rice both scored for England. Nottingham Forest, now led by Ange Postecoglou  —ex Tottenham—  inheritor of Nuno Espírito Santo’s rigid defensive lines, but already reshaping them into something more expansive.  Forest began disci

August 31, 2025 Anfield Stadium, Liverpool The duel at Anfield began before a ball was struck. Arsenal suffered another wound in the warm-up: William Saliba twisted his ankle. He tried to endure, insisting he could manage the pain, but the truth was revealed in his first movements: the anchor of Arsenal’s defence could not cope. Within minutes, he was gone. Cristhian Mosquera stepped into the breach —trial by fire. Yet the Colombian carried himself with uncommon composure. On

August 23, 2025 Emirates, London The Emirates in late August was a furnace of expectation — heat rising from sky and stands alike, pressing down on a team rebuilt, reshaped, and loudly ambitious. Arsenal’s first home game of the season was a ceremony of intent unveiled before their own. Eberechi Eze: once rejected, now Arsenal’s No.10, confirmed only half an hour before kick-off and already enshrined in myth. Eze had chosen Arsenal over Spurs, called Arteta himself, presented

August 17, 2025 Old Trafford, Manchester The Premier League’s opening weekend sent Arsenal north to Old Trafford. Before kickoff, a moment of silence honoured Liverpool’s Diogo Jota and his brother—an act that briefly stilled even this most charged of grounds. United against Arsenal is never polite diplomacy. It’s constant rivalry, unfinished business. Ruben Amorim’s United unveiled a new forward line—Cunha, Mbeumo, and the debutant Dorgu—signs of transition. Arsenal answered