This was not the reunion that Arsenal envisaged. On a night when West Ham’s discipline turned the Emirates Stadium into a pit of frustration, the narrative moved away from Declan Rice and shifted to Konstantinos Mavropanos haunting his old club with a goal that raises further questions over the hopes of winning the title.
Arsenal were desperately lacking in conviction when a win would have taken them back to the top of the league. Mikel Arteta’s side remain two points behind Liverpool and, perhaps more pertinently, only three above an apparently resurgent Manchester City.
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