Arsenal vs Brighton 0-3 — Premier League
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Brighton punished us from distance
Five games, five wins, and the Amex stopped all of it in one afternoon. Gross buried one from twenty yards on the half-hour, and from then on we chased a side with no reason to give the ball back. Kostoulas had already forced a save out of Raya in the 7th minute, and he eventually found his way through right before the break. Arteta turned to Merino, Zubimendi, Eze and then Gyökeres, and none of them made Verbruggen work.
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The league's best attack is waiting for us at the Amex
Fabian Hürzeler picks a side without Kaoru Mitoma and Evan Ferguson, with seven men in the treatment room, and Brighton have still put thirteen goals away in four league games. Nobody else in the division is close. On Wednesday his players went two goals down at Old Trafford and still won 3-2. Arteta gets Timber back after resting him at Ipswich on Tuesday, though Saliba stays out for weeks yet. Take three points on the south coast and we join Woolwich Arsenal, who won their first eight in 1903-04 and have had nobody alongside them since.