Rice and the 'Arteta Time' with which Arsenal wants to win the Premier

Arsenal sent without a prize in the last Premier League. The Gunners were leaders in 30 of 38 matches and were up to eight points ahead! However, they could not keep up with a Manchester City team that came back to win its third consecutive English League title, the fifth in the last six years.

However, Mikel Arteta had already detected the weak points that he had to strengthen to face his second assault on the heavenly throne. We have already regenerated the squad, with a very young average that will generate performance and value. The goal is to build a winning team that can be sustained over time, but the demand is increasingly greater and we have to go to the market to find what we don't have to continue improving, he confessed.

No sooner said than done. Arsenal spent 235 million euros in the summer on Rice, Havertz, Raya and the injured Timber to give their team a plus in key positions. This team is different. It is part of the evolution, of the transition. We want to continue being competitive and winning games, warned Arteta, who kept his stars (Saka, Gabriel Jesus, Martinelli, Odegaard, Saliba...) and managed to raise the level of his block. If you want to win the Premier League against City you have to reach to April-May with all the players available and in their best moment. And we, due to injuries, didn't make it last season.

A plan that is working, the Gunners are leaders with two points ahead of Liverpool, four over Aston Villa and six over City after 15 games. A remarkable start that has its main ingredient in the goals in added time. We don't want to tie... We want to win! And that's why you can see the drive, the energy, the risk and the emotion that we put on the pitch, Arteta summed up after winning (3-4) in Luton with a goal in the 97th minute.

Overtime leadership

Declan Rice, with a header, scored the winning goal as he had already done in the victory (3-1) over United in the 96th minute. Because of our attitude we never give up. We kept pressing, fighting until the end and I think it was the fifth goal we scored in added time. Winning in injury time shows what we are made of, declared the former West Ham player.