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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akimu Lurie.

Another week, another clean sheet for Arsenal.

That's three goals conceded in nine games.

So, does a solid defence win you the league?

Here with us for this one, we have James McNicholas.

We've also got Adrian Clarke as well.

Adrian, Arsenal, a top of the Premier League.

Four points ahead of Bournemouth in second.

Also an important win for them against Crystal Palace with Liverpool,

Chelsea and also Manchester City dropping points

on the weekend.

Yeah, it's a big weekend, wasn't it, for Arsenal.

They'd seen Liverpool drop points.

Obviously, played at the same time as cities, they weren't aware of what was going on there.

But it was just a game that they had to win to sort of just keep this momentum going.

And it was a hard game.

I made Mikhail Ateta right afterwards

when he said I value this victory more than any other. I think it was our sort of best win of the

season. Even though it wasn't the best performance of the season, for me, Palace had the best team

I sort of played. Definitely the best team out of possession. It's so hard to find any space against them.

And I thought they did a really good job for most of that game. But Arsenal and a set piece

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