The Liverpool trend that offers Arsenal newfound hope of upsetting champions
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Read our Privacy noticeIn Arsenal’s analysis for this Sunday at Anfield, they have already noticed something different about Liverpool beyond new players.
Hence the soaring beauty of Rio Ngumoha’s raucous winning goal against Newcastle United.
That can make this Liverpool team much more unpredictable, especially as stars like Mohammed Salah attempt things others couldn’t imagine.
The difference could also decide the season.
It has already defined the entire summer.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is preparing for Sunday’s trip to Premier League champions Liverpool (Nick Potts/PA) (PA Wire)
Some Arsenal sources have argued that, rather than signing six different players, they should have just gone bigger with the budget by securing Martin Zubimendi, Eze… and Alexander Isak.
Arsenal have scored six but conceded none.
Despite these contrasts, there is still common ground, that is just as relevant to the title race.
All of this comes in a Pep Guardiola-shaped landscape.
Manchester City may look a different force when this new group internalise his approach.
And yet the very fact that Liverpool and Arsenal were top two last season, and are already two of just three teams with 100 percent records this season, further suggests this might be the shape of things to come.
If so, it would be the first proper title rivalry not to feature City since 2015-16, maybe even 2010-11.
Last season never really got going, after all.
Arsenal can’t even point to last year’s difference of £80m in wages, given what they’ve spent since.
Bukayo Saka will miss the game through injury (PA Wire)
It’s all why this Sunday’s match feels unusually significant for a fixture so early in the season, especially given all of the unknowns.
One unknown is whether Arsenal can finally step up.