Arsenal passed the biggest test in the defence of their ⁠Premier League title so far in style as they hit back from conceding inside two minutes to ⁠beat Chelsea 2-1 .Morgan Rogers volleyed the visitors ahead after 77 seconds but Arsenal’s response was emphatic with Kai Havertz equalising after 25 minutes, by which point Riccardo Calafiori had already had a seeming equaliser ruled out for Ezri Konsa’s offside.The impressive Martin Odegaard then finished off a flowing move shortly after the break for the decisive goal. Chelsea were ⁠never fully out of it in an absorbing high-octane duel and substitute Estevao was denied a late equaliser by a superb save from David Raya.Victory leaves Arsenal level with Manchester City at the top of the nascent Premier League table, with both sides on a maximum nine points after three games.Relive all the action from Arsenal v Chelsea with our live blog below:Martin Odegaard’s carbon-copy goal shows why Arsenal will be different this seasonHang on. We’d seen that goal before, hadn’t we? We’d seen Martin Odegaard just there, lurking undetected in a pocket of space between defence and midfield.We’d seen Christos Tzolis drive inside and fire that exact pass into the centre. We’d seen Riccardo Calafiori’s decoy run and Kai Havertz intelligently leave it. We’d seen Odegaard’s little dart, the velcro control, the poise as he waited just a beat before pulling the trigger.If Odegaard’s winning goal against Chelsea felt familiar, that’s because he’d scored a carbon copy against Manchester City in the Community Shield four weeks earlier. The same players, the same movements, the same outcome, with a world-class goalkeeper – then Gianluigi Donnarumma, now Emiliano Martinez – left beaten on the ground as the ball hit the net.Lawrence Ostlere at the Emirates Stadium7 September 2026 08:00Pundits rule Chelsea out of the Premier League title race after narrow defeat to ArsenalXabi Alonso’s side were tipped to challenge the champions this season after a promising start to the new campaign that saw them win 3-2 and 4-3 against Fulham and Brighton in their opening two games, and they got off to the perfect start at the Emirates as Morgan Rogers opened the scoring within 90 seconds.However, the Gunners dominated proceedings from there, with an equaliser ruled out before Kai Havertz fired past Emi Martinez to level it before half-time.Chris Wilson7 September 2026 07:00Arsenal 2026/27 Champions League fixtures: League phase opponents revealed for GunnersWith the first game of the Champions League campaign coming up this week, here’s a look at Arsenal’s fixtures...Arsenal are set to play the likes of Real Madrid and Bayern Munich in the Champions League’s first phase this season, as the Gunners aim to bounce back from their final heartbreak.As they bid to reach a second consecutive final – and third overall – the reigning Premier League winners will this season take on Real Madrid and their Spanish colleagues Real Betis, as well as German duo Bayern and Borussia Dortmund.Chris Wilson7 September 2026 06:00Go beyond the game with Miguel Delaney’s award-winning Inside Football newsletter – get one month freeThe football fixture calendar is relentless, and the news cycle feels nonstop – spanning everything from results and matches to tactics, competitions, transfers, politics, global expansion, and even the geopolitics and greater forces now reshaping how the very sport is played.In short, there’s a lot to keep up with – and to make sense of. That’s where my award-winning newsletter Inside Football comes in.Landing in your inbox every Friday, Inside Football delivers insight, opinion, and the under-the-radar details you love.Think of my newsletter as the game’s answer to Popbitch: a space to go deeper and share what I’m seeing and hearing as I cover the game around the world.Chris Wilson7 September 2026 05:00Why was Riccardo Calafiori’s goal disallowed by VAR during Arsenal vs Chelsea?Arsenal failed to adequately clear a launched free kick from Reece James, which eventually fell at the feet of Rogers on the edge of the area. The £117m man caught the ball on the volley and although it wasn’t necessarily a truly clean connection, it thudded beyond David Raya into the bottom corner.Chris Wilson7 September 2026 04:00Anderson, Fernandez, Rogers: Can a player ever be worth £100m to a football club?There is a reason eight of the most expensive 10 transfers between English clubs this summer involved central midfielders.Of all the factors that go into valuing a footballer – age, length of contract, performance metrics, injury record, Tottenham’s desperation – the starting point for any negotiation is to benchmark a player against the market. Once Spurs bought Mateus Fernandes for a club record £85m from West Ham in June, and then broke that record buying Sandro Tonali from Newcastle for £100m four days later, the reference points were set for Bruno Guimaraes, Morgan Rogers, Elliot Anderson, Carlos Baleba and Enzo Fernandez later in the window.Lawrence Ostlere7 September 2026 03:00Alexander Isak kick-starts Liverpool career with first Reds brace at helpless IpswichThree minutes: is that all it takes to kickstart a career? For all the pre-match talk and excitement surrounding Liverpool’s star signing of the summer in Bradley Barcola, Friday night under the Suffolk lights was finally time for the joint-most expensive purchase in English football history to make his first significant mark in Merseyside red. It’s only taken him 12 months.What a morale-boosting evening this was for Alexander Isak at Portman Road. Loitering tantalisingly on the shoulder of a beleaguered Ipswich defence, the Sweden international notched two goals in three first-half minutes here – his first brace for Liverpool and just his fifth and sixth Premier League goals since that £125m move from Newcastle – to set Andoni Iraola on his way to a comfortable first Premier League victory in the Reds dugout. “With Alex, if he is fit, if he is available, if he is in good shape, I think he will produce the numbers,” Iraola said. We shall see.Kieran Jackson7 September 2026 02:00How cheaper buys outshone £125m Enzo Fernandez on Manchester City bowThe previous time Enzo Fernandez had started a match, he exited in disgrace. A few weeks and £125m later, some Manchester City fans stood to applaud their most expensive debutant ever.From being sent off in the World Cup final to being parachuted in for an unexpected start, it has been an eventful few weeks for the Argentinian. Relatively speaking, this was the calm after the storm.The taunts from the Coventry fans as he was substituted are a sign of a growing notoriety, even if Fernandez was on his best behaviour as he turned in a performance that was more encouraging than astounding. Yet if City could thank one deadline-day signing for victory, it was not him but Gianluigi Donnarumma, who arrived at the end of the window last summer and who made three terrific saves.Richard Jolly7 September 2026 01:00No Balogun, no problem: Everton forget transfer shambles with dramatic Man United drawForget, for a minute, the signing Everton did not make and concentrate on ones they did. Their deadline day ended in shambolic fashion, but the last buy they made conjured a spectacular, sensational end to his debut.First to equalise was Tyrique George, proof that, while Everton left some of their business too late in the summer, they got much of it done early. Then it was Ainsley Maitland-Niles, whose arrival was only announced 45 minutes before the deadline.Richard Jolly7 September 2026 00:00Premier League resultsHere’s the full set of results from this weekend then!Newcastle 2-2 BournemouthBrentford 1-1 SunderlandNottingham Forest 0-0 TottenhamFulham 2-3 Crystal PalaceBrighton 1-1 LeedsHull City 0-0 Aston VillaChris Wilson6 September 2026 23:00