The Arsenal Sentinel
Match12 Dec 2026
Arsenal make it 9 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Arsenal have 9 straight wins of it.
Match9 Dec 2026
Cup progress for Arsenal
A 4‑0 win over Preston, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
David Murray could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.70
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.70, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Seb Ferdinand, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.79
A mark of 7.79 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market14 Dec 2026
Kai Havertz wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Arsenal hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Kai Havertz has a hand in both — 7.66
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.66, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Match12 Dec 2026
Nobody wins at Arsenal
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Real improvement from Evan Mooney at Arsenal
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Evan Mooney is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
One of their own: Seb Ferdinand
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
- Match Arsenal see off Liverpool
- Player ratings A masterclass from Christos Tzolis
- Squad Defences have started doubling up on Bukayo Saka