{"id":1409,"date":"2026-05-19T20:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:36:11","slug":"a-superarsenal-that-banishes-the-past-and-already-competes-with-the-invincibles-of-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;SuperArsenal&#8217; that banishes the past and already competes with the Invincibles of 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">(Only) <strong>22 years have passed since Ars\u00e8ne Wenger&#8217;s Arsenal won the club&#8217;s last Premier League back in 2004&#8230;<\/strong> of the four it has (98, 02, 04 and 2026). Let us remember that Arteta has been leading the Gunner club since December 2019 (six and a half years), while <strong>Wenger spent 22 years (1996-2018) on the Gunners&#8217; bench.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">An Arsenal that goes <strong>on the way to being the best in its history (Premier champion and Champions finalist), surpassing those &#8216;Invincibles&#8217; who went down in history in 2003-04 <\/strong>with an immaculate season. That eleven from memory (Lehmann; Lauren, Kolo Tour\u00e9, Campbell, Cole; Ljungberg, Vieira, Gilberto Silva, Pir\u00e8s; Bergkamp and Henry) recorded 90 points (<strong>26 wins, 12 draws and zero losses)<\/strong>leading by eleven points the sub, Chelsea, with 73 goals for and 26 against.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Los <strong>Arteta&#8217;s Arsenal numbers can be compared to that great team, <\/strong>although they do not have the label of invincible:<strong> 37 parties (25-7-5), <\/strong>with 69 goals in favor (second after City) and 26 against (the fewest goals scored). Of course, they are missing the last game against Palace on Sunday), with nothing being played.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--video  video-player\"><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-description\">Arteta: &#8220;We have made history together again&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">A team, this one, with a dominant mentality that has stood out, however, <strong>more for its defensive capacity (which does not mean that it is a defensive team): <\/strong>19 clean sheets in 37 Premier games with David Raya already winning &#8216;three golden gloves&#8217; in a row.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">And, furthermore, with another historical fact of this (Art)signal: n<strong>Never before has a team completed an entire Premier League season without a red card <\/strong>nor concede a penalty, something that this Arsenal does register, with the nuance of the remaining day.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">As we already published the other day here,<strong> The supposed defensive &#8216;fame&#8217; (?) of this team is refuted by these data, only considering the Premier: Arsenal is the fifth team with the most possession<\/strong> from England (56% average per game); He is third in actions that progress the game in the final third (61.1); It is the quarter that touches the ball the most in the rival area (32.8); He is the third to score the most goals without counting penalties (1.62); He is the fifth with the most finishes (13.8 per game); It is the second with the most advanced defensive line (64.4 meters); and he is the first to allow the fewest passes to his rival per possession (9.7). All in Premier context. <\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">In short, a &#8216;SuperArsenal&#8217; that is making history 22 years later and that can <strong>break down all barriers with the possible double in Budapest. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Only) 22 years have passed since Ars\u00e8ne Wenger&#8217;s Arsenal won the club&#8217;s last Premier League<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}