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Arsenal vs Sunderland 2-0 — Premier League

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Premier League · Matchday 4·Stadium of Light
Sunderland
Sunderland
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Saturday, 12 September 2026
FULL TIME
0–2
Half-time 0-0
Arsenal
Arsenal
Away
Reinildo 90'+6
Bruno Guimarães 58'Saka 90'+7 (pen)
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Line-upsOfficial
Arsenal4-2-3-1
1Raya
33Calafiori
6Gabriel
15Konsa
4White
41Rice
49Lewis-Skelly
17Tzolis
8Ødegaard
7Saka
29Havertz
Subs
Arrizabalaga, Timber, Merino, Bruno Guimarães, Zubimendi, Madueke, Hincapié, Gyökeres, Eze
Manager · M. Arteta
Match report

It took Raya's save to win this one

We won at Sunderland after an hour of being poor, and Raya is the one who kept us in it. Konsa, who Brobbey ran ragged all night, ended up hauling Ballard down in the box, and Le Fée stepped up to turn the game. Raya went the right way and pushed it onto his own post. Bruno Guimarães, sent on by Arteta at the break, needed only the next two minutes to put us ahead, and Saka settled the rest in stoppage time.

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Man of the match
David Raya 8
He had barely touched the ball before he saved Le Fée's penalty
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Stats & timeline
xG
1.97vs1.64
Key player
Bruno Guimarães 7
Arteta sent him on at the break, and he answered with his first goal for us
ArsenalStatsSunderland
Possession
58%
42%
Shots
11
12
Shots on target
5
3
Completed passes
321
217
Pass accuracy
83%
77%
Duels won
54
37
Fouls
11
18
Corners
2
4
Offsides
2
2
Timeline
45'⏸
Half-time: 0-0
We go in having tested Roefs very little, and Havertz has already let two clean chances go.
45'🔄
Double change at the break
Bruno Guimarães replaces Lewis-Skelly and Timber comes on for White, who had a difficult first half.
56'🧤
Raya saves Le Fée’s penalty
Konsa hauls Ballard down in the box, Le Fée goes low and Raya pushes it onto his own post.
58'⚽
Bruno Guimarães opens the scoring
Rice leaves it for him twenty yards out and he puts it under the bar, two minutes after Raya’s save.
69'🟨
Yellow card for Xhaka
The Sunderland captain stops a counter with a foul.
70'🔄
Isidor on for Angulo
Le Bris goes to a second striker to chase the equaliser.
76'🔄
Fofana replaces Meunier
Sunderland put pace down their right and start pinning us back.
81'🔄
Zubimendi and Eze come on
Zubimendi replaces Rice and Eze comes on for Tzolis, who had faded after the half-hour.
85'🔄
Merino on for Ødegaard
Arteta packs the midfield to see out the last ten minutes.
90'+6🟥
Reinildo sent off
He grabs Saka’s shirt in the box and picks up his second booking.
90'+7⚽
Saka makes it two from the spot
He wins the penalty and converts it himself, with the last kick of the game.
90'🏁
Sunderland 0-2 Arsenal
A fourth win in four league games, and another clean sheet on the road.
Analysis & Arsenal focus
Konsa never got a grip on Brobbey
Brobbey got past Konsa and in behind him all game, and the penalty is simply where it finally cost us. With Saliba and Mosquera both out, Arteta has nobody else to put there, and it is showing now on the harder away trips. Raya wiped the slate tonight, and he will not do that every week.
The two changes at the break
Arteta took White and Lewis-Skelly off at half-time, which he almost never does when we have not conceded. Timber shut down the right side in his first real minutes since his summer operation, and Bruno Guimarães gave the midfield a presence it had been missing since kick-off. That is the second time this season a substitute has unlocked a game for us, after Tzolis in Naples.
Havertz wasted the two he got
Havertz had two clean chances before half-time and put neither of them away. Roefs tipped over his acrobatic effort, and on the other one he looked for the pass with the goal in front of him. We got away with it on Saturday because Raya and a substitute did his job for him, and that will not hold up across a season.
Read the pre-match build-up

Xhaka wears the armband on the other side

Granit Xhaka leads Sunderland out tonight with the armband, at a club that turned down Chelsea's money to keep hold of him this summer. We know what this ground can do to us. Saka and then Trossard had put us in front here last November before Brobbey levelled it in the 94th minute. Régis Le Bris has warned his players that we arrive on a run, and he does it without Habib Diarra or Romaine Mundle. Saliba is still in the treatment room our end, though Timber has trained with the group all week and Arteta makes his call after the final session.

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