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League Action

Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday The Athletic discusses three of the biggest questions posed by the weekend’s Premier League action.

This was the weekend when, dare we say, Arsenal took the handbrake off to motor past a post-Nuno Nottingham Forest, German giant Nick Woltemade headed Newcastle United to victory, Aston Villa went a fourth game without a goal and West Ham’s woes continued with a miserable home defeat by Tottenham Hotspur.