{"id":237254,"date":"2022-10-12T17:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=237254"},"modified":"2022-10-12T18:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T23:30:01","slug":"can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Arsenal Win the English Premier League? Real Deal or False Dawn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine games into the Premier League season, and Arsenal<\/a> sits on top of the league. Yes, Arsenal.<\/p>\n

\"Arsenal\"
Arsenal players celebrate their 3-2 victory against Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium last weekend. The Gunners\u2019 revival appears to be the real deal. (Image: Sky Sports)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is not an illusion. The Gunners have been transformed by coach Mikel Arteta into a supreme modern soccer team: organized, exciting, packed with individual talent, but swarming, pressing, passing, and rotating as an elite unit.<\/p>\n

Unpressable, ball-playing defenders. Inverted full backs. Blistering young wingers. And a guy named Jesus up front who unleashes hellfire on opposition defenses. This is a team without obvious weaknesses.<\/p>\n

Arsenal has even developed the kind of aggressive street-smarts so absent in the later Wenger years.<\/p>\n

But can this team win the title?<\/p>\n

Pep: ‘Better than City’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Whisper it, but for the first time in 16 years, Arsenal is looking like the real deal again. But a realer deal than Manchester City? City, with its giant Norwegian beast of a striker<\/a> and the superhuman Kevin De Bruyne? City, which is arguably the best team in the world and maybe one of the best ever assembled?<\/p>\n

As City manager and Arteta\u2019s former mentor Pep Guardiola said this week, \u201cThe reality is that Arsenal have been better than us so far. We are not top of the league.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

The underlying stats confirm that this Arsenal revival is not illusory, like all the other Arsenal revivals before it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The team\u2019s expected goals (XG) have been better than its opponents in each of the nine games it\u2019s played so far, even in the loss at Manchester United, underlining that the result was unfortunate.<\/p>\n

Some commentators have suggested Arsenal might \u201cdo a Leicester\u201d this season. It\u2019s a strange comment. Leicester won the league in 2016, having narrowly survived relegation at the end of the season prior. At the beginning of the 2015-16 season, the Foxes were 5,000-1 to win the title.<\/p>\n

Arsenal, on the other hand, is a traditional top six side in the third year of a rebuild that has cost \u00a3278 million. But such is the perceived dominance of City that it feels like 5,000-1. Arsenal is, in fact, 8-1 to win the title.<\/p>\n

The New Liverpool? \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It’s more apt to ask “will Arsenal do a Liverpool\u201d \u2013 i.e., build a world-class title-winning side without the financial backing of an oil-rich nation state.<\/p>\n

That appears to be the plan, but maybe not this year. In all likelihood, Arsenal is competing for second. The squad lacks a little depth. It\u2019s short a goal-scoring winger and a central midfielder.<\/p>\n

Additions over summer have improved squad depth, with players who can cover several positions. But lose Thomas Partey and the team drops a level. And the Ghanian, who was unavailable for that sole loss against United, is injury prone.<\/p>\n

Arsenal is also the youngest team in the league, with an average age of 23.7, and their inexperience might count this year.<\/p>\n

But those players will hit their peak as footballers in two to three years\u2019 time. When that happens, Arsenal will be scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine games into the Premier League season, and Arsenal sits on top of the league. Yes, Arsenal. This is not an illusion. The Gunners have been transformed by coach Mikel Arteta into a supreme modern soccer team: organized, exciting, packed with individual talent, but swarming, pressing, passing, and rotating as an elite unit. Unpressable, ball-playing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":237255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82966,16,1074],"tags":[83230,83231,82142],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCan Arsenal win the English Premier League? Real Deal or False Dawn<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Arsenal is top of the English Premier League after nine games but is this team the real deal? Can Arsenal win the league versus Man City?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can Arsenal win the English Premier League? Real Deal or False Dawn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Arsenal is top of the English Premier League after nine games but is this team the real deal? Can Arsenal win the league versus Man City?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-12T22:58:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-12T23:30:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arse.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1047\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casinoorgphilc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/\",\"name\":\"Can Arsenal win the English Premier League? Real Deal or False Dawn\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arse.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-12T22:58:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-12T23:30:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\"},\"description\":\"Arsenal is top of the English Premier League after nine games but is this team the real deal? Can Arsenal win the league versus Man City?\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arse.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arse.jpg\",\"width\":1047,\"height\":675,\"caption\":\"Arsenal players celebrate their 3-2 victory against Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium last weekend. The Gunners\u2019 revival appears to be the real deal. (Image: Sky Sports)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sports Betting\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/sportsbetting\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Can Arsenal Win the English Premier League? Real Deal or False Dawn?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Casino.org\",\"description\":\"Latest Casino and Gaming News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\",\"name\":\"Philip Conneller\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"Philip Conneller\"},\"description\":\"In Philip Conneller\u2019s eight years with Casino.org, he has covered the gaming industry from Las Vegas to Macau and everything in between. He currently focuses his coverage on gaming law, white-collar crime, global money laundering, tribal gaming, politics, and regulation. Philip was the original features editor for poker\u2019s Bluff Magazine and editor for Bluff Europe, which he helped launch. His writing has also been featured in ESPN, Forbes, Time Out, The Sun, and The Daily Star, as well as iGaming Business, eGaming Review, and numerous other industry news and tech websites. His news stories for Casino.org\/news have been linked by The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, People Magazine, and Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, among many others. Philip once won $20,000 with 7-2 off-suit. He has been reprimanded for unwittingly playing Elton John\u2019s piano on two separate occasions on both sides of the Atlantic. He became a writer because he is a lousy pianist. Philip lives outside London with his wife and children, where he spends his time agonizing about Arsenal FC. Contact Philip at philip.conneller@casino.org.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/philip-conneller\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/philip-conneller-1495a48\/?originalSubdomain=uk\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/casinoorgphilc\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/phillip-conneller\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Can Arsenal win the English Premier League? Real Deal or False Dawn","description":"Arsenal is top of the English Premier League after nine games but is this team the real deal? Can Arsenal win the league versus Man City?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Can Arsenal win the English Premier League? Real Deal or False Dawn","og_description":"Arsenal is top of the English Premier League after nine games but is this team the real deal? Can Arsenal win the league versus Man City?","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/","og_site_name":"Casino.org","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews","article_published_time":"2022-10-12T22:58:06+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-10-12T23:30:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1047,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arse.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Philip Conneller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@casinoorgphilc","twitter_site":"@Casino_Org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Philip Conneller","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/","name":"Can Arsenal win the English Premier League? Real Deal or False Dawn","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arse.jpg","datePublished":"2022-10-12T22:58:06+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-12T23:30:01+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b"},"description":"Arsenal is top of the English Premier League after nine games but is this team the real deal? Can Arsenal win the league versus Man City?","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arse.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arse.jpg","width":1047,"height":675,"caption":"Arsenal players celebrate their 3-2 victory against Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium last weekend. The Gunners\u2019 revival appears to be the real deal. (Image: Sky Sports)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/can-arsenal-win-the-english-premier-league-real-deal-or-false-dawn\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sports Betting","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/sportsbetting\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Can Arsenal Win the English Premier League? Real Deal or False Dawn?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/","name":"Casino.org","description":"Latest Casino and Gaming News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b","name":"Philip Conneller","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png","caption":"Philip Conneller"},"description":"In Philip Conneller\u2019s eight years with Casino.org, he has covered the gaming industry from Las Vegas to Macau and everything in between. He currently focuses his coverage on gaming law, white-collar crime, global money laundering, tribal gaming, politics, and regulation. Philip was the original features editor for poker\u2019s Bluff Magazine and editor for Bluff Europe, which he helped launch. His writing has also been featured in ESPN, Forbes, Time Out, The Sun, and The Daily Star, as well as iGaming Business, eGaming Review, and numerous other industry news and tech websites. His news stories for Casino.org\/news have been linked by The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, People Magazine, and Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, among many others. Philip once won $20,000 with 7-2 off-suit. He has been reprimanded for unwittingly playing Elton John\u2019s piano on two separate occasions on both sides of the Atlantic. He became a writer because he is a lousy pianist. Philip lives outside London with his wife and children, where he spends his time agonizing about Arsenal FC. Contact Philip at philip.conneller@casino.org.","sameAs":["https:\/\/muckrack.com\/philip-conneller","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/philip-conneller-1495a48\/?originalSubdomain=uk","https:\/\/x.com\/casinoorgphilc"],"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/phillip-conneller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}