If this is at last to be Arsenal’s year, it will have been because of dramatic moments like this. Only bolstering their confidence is that this was just the latest. Declan Rice scored a 97th-minute header for the Premier League leaders to plunder a 4-3 win over a doughty Luton Town team who will feel they deserved more. They again gave the competition an awful lot to contemplate here. This was just the latest in a series of these chaotically entertaining games – many of them 4-3 – on which the Premier League has sold another multi-billion broadcast deal.
It was also the latest in a series of psychologically crucial late victories for Mikel Arteta’s side, whatever the importance in the table. This was the fifth time they had scored a game-changing goal after the 84th minute in just 15 league games this season. It was also the second time they had done it in three weeks. Arsenal, as against Brentford, won by a nose.
