Brentford have a very tight defense, that has been very hard to penetrate by the Arsenal players, Arsenal where able to score a goal, but it was cancelled as an offside, it was a very close call. Arsenal has to give thanks too because they did not concede even with the mistakes from their goalkeeper Ramsdale who was given a chance today. Arsenal needs to win this game, so I expect a more serious approach in the second half after seeing how well Brentford defended in the first half.
The match has actually ended the way I predicted, although Brighton performance was actually impressive especially there defense that was given Arsenal tough time to break and at last they manages to break it and win Brighton 1-0.
Manchester City has really messed up on there match today's against Liverpool, there inability to win Liverpool has cost them there position on the premier League table by dropping down to second position. However Arteta plans are really come to play because for Arsenal to have entered the first position on the premier League they will try all possible best in other not lose any matches because they wouldn't like to repeat there last season mistake that cost them the premier league trophy.
Kevin de Bruyne's absence is so noticeable. City couldn't make good use of the gaps Liverpool gave, as you can see, they usually attacked from the wing with Doku. I don't think Liverpool would have had much of a chance if de Bruyne was in this game, but it's still hard to get points here with or without de Bruyne. City often failed to prevent Liverpool's attacks when they lost the ball. Defensive weaknesses were more prevalent in both teams than in previous seasons.