that is a big, big win. Everton hasn’t been an easy place for us to go, even when we’ve been in better form. saw quite a lot of grumbling about the performance but I thought it was alright. we were the better team and deserved the win.

“Poor first half from Ødegaard” “Much better second half from Ødegaard”

Declan Rice received his first foul in the Premier League this season tonight.

Our corners were much better today, from left and right. Gabi must be champing at the bit.

Today the color guy said some things about how impressive our control of the game was. I think that’s instructive - an ostensible “neutral” was really praiseworthy of just how much we dominated the pitch, how little Everton could do. Take the emotion out and you see nerveless, strangling control.

Arsenal are the best team in the world (at conceding one-fifth-of-one-xG and still managing to stress us the fuck out)

Gabriel Jesus might be the key that unlocks deep defenses for Arsenal. Really excited to have him back and looking pretty sharp already. Kai Havertz will be back soon enough, too. There will be times for each attacker to shine, Viktor Gyokeres too. Hopefully Mikel Arteta picks the right spots!

Presuming we heavily, heavily rotate for Palace on Tuesday we are another week closer to getting Kai and big Gabi back, with another league win in the bag. A good day.

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Everton vs Arsenal - MOTD Highlights and Analysis arsenalist.com/everton-vs-a...

Saka: "We're in control now - if we win every week, we stay there [top of the league]"

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

He gave a goalkick. Why did he give a goalkick?

If you are a referee and can't see a jumping player handle the ball with both hands above his, and everybody else's head, what are you even doing in this sport?

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There is a growing sense that this could be Pep Guardiola’s final season at Manchester City, according to a report, with Chelsea’s Enzo Maresca high among the club’s candidates to replace him. 👀

Saka has had some crazy good performances without g/a this season. He was easily our best player and vital in the wins over Wolves, Fulham, and Atletico Madrid, some of his best displays of the season. Yet zero g/a from those three games.

Their son murdered them and their daughter found them. It's all so unbelievably awful.

ICYMI here's my YouTube video looking back on that edgy 2-1 win v Wolves... youtu.be/LocrM-4cEkU

i guess he can't imagine playing in anything other than red and white. 🤭 nothing but best wishes to tomiyasu

Positive spin: while we were lucky that Saka’s exquisite corner bounced in off the Wolves’ keeper, Wolves were at least as fortunate that it wasn’t three inches to the right - in which case it just goes right in the net.

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Arsenal women head into the mid-season break firmly in the Champions League places after a crucial win at Everton, with the race for second place now sharply in focus. dailycannon.com/2025/12/arse...

someone play the champions league music for Martinelli right now

a comic about blocking

Wow. The Aussie shooters were father and son. Why would you lead your child down this path? To commit mass murder. To kill children. I will never understand that kind of hate.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

For color girls

Racist and transphobic? Wouldn't be surprised if she changed career and ends up either on GB News or Fox over in the US.

Laura Woods being a transphobic and misogynistic knobhead again this weekend. Guess she's fully recovered. Reminder Imane Khelif is a cis woman but Woods doesn't think she looks womanly enough so calls her a 'biological man'. www.express.co.uk/sport/boxing...

Declan Rice has now played 1,339 Premier League minutes this season without receiving a single free kick.

@ Oli Glasner

He really is the reason for the season.

"Are Arsenal to reliant on own goals?"

Lmao Wolves scored all the goals and lost.

Thank God he never followed through with this

what a lovely smile, just warms the heart

Saka was levels above any other player on the pitch tonight. It's been reduced a bit this season (mainly because of Trossard) but as long as he's playing, Arsenal will always have a right-sided bias because he's really fucking good. We don't win that game without him.

LEAVING IT LATE FOR A BIG THREE POINTS 🤩

“Champions find a way to win” - English media, were that Liverpool or City Time to move on

Terrible performance but five points clear?

They feared Set Piece FC, but we can win without scoring. Fear us!

Think about it this way: Arsenal are so damn good that they can win a match, in which they conceded no less, without scoring a goal of their own. Everyone else should be terrified. We’re massive.

A silver lining for 'ya: at some point, Arsenal are going to snap out of this funk and we'll see the dominant side they were earlier this year. So far, they've navigated the wobble well enough and are still top. In the past, stretches like this have undone seasons.

I would normally say that today was like a tennis player playing down to the level of their opponent, but I think we are just running on fumes and suffering from the fatigue that has compounded after all these injuries. Tuesday’s game was a lesser opponent, which hid a bit of all of this.