Arsenal’s win over Tottenham took them to their greatest Premier League lead since they final received the title and their highest factors whole at this stage of a season.
With 47 factors from 18 video games, Mikel Arteta’s facet lead second-placed Manchester City by eight factors.
Here, the PA information company seems at how their present place compares to previous champions and the membership’s historical past.
Arsenal’s earlier finest file at this stage was 14 wins, two attracts and two defeats on their approach to the First Division title in 1932-33, which might be price 44 factors when transformed to the trendy three factors for a win system.
Arteta’s facet are three factors higher off than that after 15 wins, attracts with Southampton and Newcastle and a solitary loss to Manchester United.
Arsenal’s final league title got here in 2003-04 and whereas Arsene Wenger’s ‘Invincibles’ have been, by definition, unbeaten at this stage, attracts with Portsmouth, Manchester United, Charlton, Fulham, Leicester and Bolton had Wenger’s facet on 42 factors after 18 video games. They went on to complete with 90 and win the title by 11 factors, with their present eight-point lead being their greatest benefit since then.
They have been one level higher off at this stage in 2007-08 than they have been in 2003-04, after 13 wins, 4 attracts and a defeat to Middlesbrough, however they went on to complete third.
Converting all historic seasons to 3 factors for a win, Arsenal have eight seasons with 40 or extra factors via 18 video games. Those campaigns introduced them 5 league titles in addition to a promotion, in 1903-04 as Second Division runners-up.
Title comparability
The Gunners’ imperious kind sees them forward of back-to-back champions Manchester City’s factors tally at this stage in every of the final two seasons.
Pep Guardiola’s facet had 44 factors via 18 video games final season and 38 the earlier yr, earlier than ending the respective campaigns high of the pile on 93 and 86.
The three seasons previous to that noticed the very best remaining factors totals in Premier League historical past as City and Liverpool battled for high honours, with file tempo at this stage of the season too.
City received 17 of their first 18 video games in 2017-18, taking 52 factors out of a attainable 54, and went on to file the one 100-point Premier League marketing campaign so far. Liverpool matched that begin two years later earlier than successful the title with 99 factors.
Arsenal are forward of City’s 44 factors from the 2018-19 season – although Jurgen Klopp’s Reds had 48 at that stage, finally ending on 97 to City’s 98.
The Invincibles apart, Arsenal’s different two earlier titles within the Premier League period got here after they’d 33 at this stage in 2001-02 and 30 in 1997-98 – the latter leaving them sixth within the desk at Christmas earlier than a run of 18 video games unbeaten, and 10 straight wins from March 11 to May 3, carried them to the trophy.
