What hasn’t modified this weekend is that Arsenal are nonetheless the staff to beat.
You would argue they might have performed extra in opposition to Chelsea’s 10 males, and so they is likely to be upset to not create extra probabilities after the crimson card, and to solely get a draw.
However, trying on the larger image, they’ve come out of a really troublesome week within the Champions League and Premier League with spectacular wins over Tottenham and Bayern Munich and now getting a draw away on the staff who have been closest to them within the desk.
In opposition to Chelsea, they have been lacking each of their first-choice centre-halves, Gabriel and William Saliba, and I do not assume it’s a coincidence that, with out them, they conceded from a Chelsea set-piece and didn’t look their normal risk from their very own.
That is one more reason why choosing up this level will likely be seen as a constructive factor, and Arteta is not going to view the end result as two factors dropped.
Arsenal have now drawn their previous two away video games however they’re nonetheless essentially the most constant aspect within the Premier League and that’s the reason they’re 5 factors clear.
The league desk isn’t mendacity in the intervening time, and it by no means does. They need to be the place they’re as a result of they have been the standout aspect to date, and they’ll take some catching too.
Alan Shearer was talking to BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.
