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Sam Dean
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Football reporter for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.
Attacking stats at half-time.
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Keith Andrews was Brentford's set-piece coach last season. They were the best team in the Premier League on set-pieces. #BrentfordFC 🐝
June 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
📍Parc des Princes
May 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Parc des Princes. Arteta and Rice speaking shortly.
May 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Djugarden v Chelsea. I’ll be honest, the plastic pitch does not look great. At all.
May 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yes.
April 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Bukayo Saka is walking a little gingerly. Presumably from the Davis tackle.
April 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ipswich Town v Arsenal
April 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
📍Santiago Bernabéu
April 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Arsenal are arriving into a proper rainstorm in Madrid. Chucking it down.
April 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Craven Cottage ☀️
April 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Left foot, edge of the box, far corner. Ethan Nwaneri has scored this goal four times this season (so far).
March 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Arteta said yesterday that the emergence of Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly has made the club “rethink” some of their recruitment plans. #AFC
March 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Forest v Arsenal. Third v second.
February 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Kai Havertz has made at least 45 club appearances in each of the last five seasons. Arsenal will need him to be as resilient as ever in the coming months.

Here’s what Mikel Arteta said about the German’s robustness:
February 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Estadi Montilivi. Girona v Arsenal.
January 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Midweek NLD. Big night.
January 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
At the Amex. Snood weather ❄️
January 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Brentford v Arsenal. The weather is truly vile.
January 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is a proper Premier League midfield three. Lovely blend of artful scheming and bar-fight bruising. Must be truly vile to play against.
December 30, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Emirates Stadium. Arsenal v Ipswich.
December 27, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Selhurst Park.
December 21, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Have Arsenal and Arteta put too much emphasis on control and not enough on attacking flair? The spending shows how they have built from the back. (Obviously this is partly because they already had Saka and Martinelli in the building)
December 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Palace have followed Monaco’s lead by leaving three players upfield for an Arsenal corner.
December 18, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Arsenal's attack has become increasingly right-sided over the past few years. Which makes sense, considering their quality in those areas.

But when opposition teams are targeting Saka & Odegaard, #AFC need more end product and quality from their left wingers.
www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
December 9, 2024 at 5:05 PM