Three points separate Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea and Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal after 34 Premier League matches. Without context, this is just a statistic but when adding the background to its significance, it details how impressive a season Arsenal have had so far.
Arsenal watched on last campaign as Chelsea won their second Champions League trophy. Thomas Tuchel managed to take over from the lacklustre showing from Frank Lampard and beat Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Manchester City to lift the trophy.
A squad injected with £200 million-plus worth of talent in 2020 won the ultimate club accolade. This was then built upon with the addition of the £97.5m acquisition of Romelu Lukaku and Saul Niguez arrived on loan from Atletico.