sport news Oleksandr Zinchenko's grapple with Neal Maupay shows signs of Arsenal ... trends now

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Mikel Arteta will never use 100 words if one sentence will do, nor will he give you deep analysis if he can say something neutral.

So it was one of those moments, an hour after Arsenal had suffered a rare league defeat, when the ears pricked up as he acknowledged an incident in stoppage time.

Oleksandr Zinchenko had been drawn into a grapple on the floor with Everton irritant Neal Maupay.

Zinchenko allowed his emotions to boil over, wasting valuable time and giving Everton a chance to break up the game.

That spoke of where we are in the season. Arsenal, the league leaders, are going to be a scalp in every fixture. They play Brentford, Manchester City, Aston Villa and Leicester this month and the intensity in each will be comparable with the Goodison furnace.