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Arsenal<\/a>‘s victory over Brighton<\/a> felt like a match that had been played multiple times already this season. <\/p>\n The Gunners dominated play, missed chances and had to deal with injuries to key players – something that has tested their squad since the opening match of the campaign, with forward Kai Havertz missing with a knee injury since then. <\/p>\n On Saturday, Arsenal<\/a> were without the injured Jurrien Timber and lost Riccardo Calafiori in the warm-up, meaning left-back Myles Lewis-Skelly stepped into the starting line-up at short notice. <\/p>\n There was some good news, with centre-back Gabriel returning as a second-half substitute following his injury lay-off.<\/p>\n Arteta said his side have been “surviving” the challenges thrown at them for six months and the injuries to key players are “uniting” the squad.<\/p>\n “At the moment we survived six months, so let’s see, there’s another five and a half to go, so hopefully things will get better,” he said.<\/p>\n “The good news as well, we’ve got Gabi [Gabriel] earlier than expected, which is great.”<\/p>\n This is the second week in a row where Manchester City<\/a> have played before Arsenal<\/a> and gone top of the Premier League, with the Gunners having to respond.<\/p>\n But Arteta says his squad are relishing the challenge they face as they try to win the Premier League for the first time since 2004. <\/p>\n “We can only control what we do. We’re doing a lot of good things that I think that we have to improve as well,” he said, adding that playing “every three days is going to be a challenge and we are up for it”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Arsenal #Brighton #David #Raya #save #Gunners #top #table<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arsenal‘s victory over B… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}