{"id":853731,"date":"2026-09-19T23:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853731\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T23:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:28:17","slug":"brighton-beat-arsenal-3-0-as-man-city-top-premier-league-without-playing-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853731\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton beat Arsenal 3-0 as Man City top Premier League without playing | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal in shock 3-0 loss at Brighton to lose top spot in the Premier League on goal difference to Manchester City.<\/p>\n

Published On 19 Sep 202619 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

Arsenal slumped to a first loss in their Premier League title defence \u2013 and it was a heavy one at Brighton.<\/p>\n

After four straight wins for the champions, the 3-0 defeat<\/a> at the Amex Stadium on Saturday came out of nowhere. Conceding the third goal from a corner \u2014 typically an area of strength for Arsenal \u2013 summed up an unusually sloppy performance from Mikel Arteta\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

Pascal Gross and Charalampos Kostoulas scored in the first half with shots from outside the penalty area, before Chema Andres completed the win with a header at the back post from Gross\u2019s corner.<\/p>\n

The victory will have been especially sweet for Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler, who said \u201conly one team tried to play football\u201d after his team\u2019s narrow home loss to Arsenal last season.<\/p>\n

Arsenal have often struggled against Brighton, which was the last team to inflict such a heavy defeat on the Gunners in any competition \u2014 winning 3-0 at Emirates Stadium in May 2023.<\/p>\n

It completed a brilliant week for Brighton, after beating Coventry 5-0 in the league last weekend and coming from two goals down in midweek to beat Manchester United 3-2 away in the English League Cup.<\/p>\n

Manchester City \u2014 the other team to win their first four games \u2014 can now move three points clear in the standings by beating Sunderland on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The size of Arsenal\u2019s defeat means City take top spot without kicking a ball on Saturday due to a superior goal difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal in shock 3-0 loss at Brighton to lose top spot in the Premier League on goal difference…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1076,399,1079,99,1049],"class_list":["post-853731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}