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The Arsenal players celebrated in front of their fans after the full-time whistle and Arteta was asked by BBC Sport in his press conference whether he can take a positive in the manner they won the game.

“That gives you certainly momentum and confidence. Two very important things,” Arteta said.

“We can still come away and find a way to win the game. The team has to find that resilience throughout the season for 10 months, in different contexts, to be able to do that.

“Of course we have to improve a lot of things, and that will happen very soon, but in terms of managing to get that into a very positive result that is a great way to do it.”

Former Crystal Palace and Republic of Ireland striker Clinton Morrison, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, thinks the qualities Arsenal showed could be a sign of a season of success.

He said: “That’s the sign of champions when you don’t play well and still get the three points.

“The difference was goalkeepers. David Raya was outstanding, and Altay Bayindir made a huge mistake.

“Viktor Gyokeres fed on scraps. It is difficult for him. There’s still a lot more to come from him.”

Former Manchester United player and Sky pundit Gary Neville said “Arsenal had to change” because of the way they played in the first half.

He added: “The front three, especially the wide players, were not playing anywhere near good enough in this game.”

“Arsenal really dug in and showed a lot of resilience. Arsenal were never at their best but to come here to Old Trafford, or over to Manchester City, and get three points is big.”

BASSETERRE: Spinner Usman Tariq produced a brilliant bowling spell as Trinbago Knight Riders edged past St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 12 runs in the fourth match of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2025 at Warner Park, St Kitts, on Sunday.

After being put in to bat first, Knight Riders posted a mammoth 231-5 in their 20 overs, displaying an aggressive batting approach from the outset. Openers Colin Munro and Alex Hales set the tone with a 114-run stand.

Hales fell just short of his half-century, dismissed for 47 off 27 balls, including four fours and three sixes. Munro, however, stole the show with a blistering knock, smashing 120 off 57 deliveries with 14 fours and six sixes. 

Captain Nicholas Pooran chipped in with 13 off 11, while Kieron Pollard added 19 from 13 balls. Keacy Carty (16* off 8) and Akeal Hosein (1* off 1) ensured the team crossed the 230-run mark.

For the Patriots, Waqar Salamkheil (2-47) and skipper Jason Holder (2-40) were the pick of the bowlers. Naseem Shah (0-40) and Fazalhaq Farooqi (0-41) remained wicketless.

Chasing 232, the Patriots made a strong start with Kyle Mayers and Andre Fletcher adding 80 for the opening wicket. 

Fletcher struck 41 off 25 balls, while Mayers contributed 32 from 22 deliveries. Rilee Rossouw also kept the chase alive with 38 off 24 balls.

Skipper Jason Holder led the charge with a quickfire 44 off 22 balls, hitting three fours and three sixes, but his dismissal to Mohammad Amir dented the chase at a crucial stage.

Usman Tariq was the game-changer with the ball, finishing with figures of 4-33 in four overs. He claimed the key wickets of Mayers, Rossouw, Mikyle Louis and Jyd Goolie to break the Patriots’ momentum.

Amir went for 51 runs in his four overs but picked up a wicket, while Akeal Hosein and Sunil Narine also bagged a scalp each as the Patriots were restricted to 219-7 in 20 overs.

Colin Munro hit a remarkable 120 from 57 balls as Trinbago Knight Riders beat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 12 runs in the Caribbean Premier League.

The 38-year-old former New Zealand international struck 14 fours and six sixes from the top of the order after his side were put into bat, before he was finally caught in the covers for the joint third-highest individual score in the CPL.

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Munro put on 114 for the first wicket with Alex Hales, who struck 47 from 27, with Knight Riders closing on 231-5 – the seventh-highest score in the tournament’s history.

Kyle Mayers (32) and Andre Fletcher (41) staged their own opening stand of 80, but the pair fell in the space of five balls to spinners Usman Tariq and Akeal Hosein respectively.

Captain Holder struck 44 from 22 balls, but his team were well behind the required run-rate and finished on 219-7.

A win in their opening game puts Knight Riders top of the early table, while Patriots drop one place to third with one win from three matches.

Ruben, did you give any consideration to starting Tom Heaton ahead of Altay, because he’s conceded goals similar to that before?

“Why?”

I think a lot of people might argue that Tom’s a better keeper than him, more experience in the Premier League.

“But, he suffered a goal like this when?”

Tottenham, last season.

“Without VAR. Without VAR. With VAR, it’s a foul. And then, what happens in the next game?”

May I ask…

“What happen in the next game?”

At Wolves?

“No, no, no. Not at Wolves.”

Arsenal?

“The next one [that Altay played], Arsenal. Who saves the penalty, who saves the game, all the game?”

But that was a penalty.

“No, no, no, before the penalty. You don’t remember the game? I remember the game.”

Yes, he saved a penalty.

“Altay was unbelievable in that game. So I considered everything to put one or another, and I choose Altay.”

Long-distance runner Evie Parts has sued the NCAA and Swarthmore College as well as members of its athletic department, saying they illegally removed her from the track team because she is transgender.

Parts’ lawsuit said the NCAA’s ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports did not have legal grounds because it’s not a governmental organization and therefore does not have jurisdiction over Pennsylvania state law or the Title IX federal statute.

She was removed from the team on 6 February, the day the NCAA, US college sports’ largest governing body, issued its new policy on transgender athletes.

Swarthmore men’s and women’s track coach Peter Carroll, athletic director Brad Koch and athletics officials Christina Epps-Chiazor and Valerie Gomez also were named in the lawsuit. According to the complaint, they sent Parts into “such a depressive state that she engaged in self-harm and in one moment told a friend that she wanted to kill herself.”

Susie Cirilli, an attorney who represents Parts, added: “We stand by the allegations in the complaint. As stated in the complaint, the NCAA is a private organization that issued a bigoted policy. Swarthmore College chose to follow that policy and disregard federal and state law.”

Swarthmore issued a statement that it “deeply values our transgender community members.”

“We recognize that this is an especially difficult and painful time for members of the transgender community, including student-athletes,” the school said. “We worked to support Evie Parts in a time of rapidly evolving guidance, while balancing the ability for other members of the women’s track team to compete in NCAA events. Given the pending litigation, we will not comment any further.”

The NCAA chose not to comment.

The NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes to limit competition in women’s sports to athletes assigned female at birth. That change came a day after Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.

Pennsylvania’s state Senate approved a bill by a 32-18 margin on 6 May to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports at the collegiate and K-12 levels. The state’s Democratic-controlled House of Representatives isn’t expected to vote on the bill.

Parts joined the Swarthmore track team in fall 2020 before then taking off the following four winter and spring seasons. She went back to the team in 2023 to compete in the indoor and outdoor track seasons and in cross country.

When the NCAA issued its ban, the lawsuit states, Parts was told by Epps-Chiazor and Gomez that she could compete with the men’s team or as an unattached athlete. She would only receive medical treatment, the complaint says, if she competed on the men’s team.

According to the lawsuit, Carroll and his staff were not allowed to coach Parts, she could not travel with the team, was not allowed to receive per diem or food and had to pay her way into meets. Parts also couldn’t wear a Swarthmore uniform.

Swarthmore “fully reinstated” Parts on 11 April, the lawsuit says, and she competed on the women’s team until graduating in May.

In July, a transgender woman sued Princeton University claiming she was illegally removed shortly before her race in a school-hosted track meet in May due to her gender identity. Sadie Schreiner, who had transitioned during high school, had previously run for Division III Rochester Institute of Technology but was set to compete as an athlete unattached to any school or club in the Larry Ellis Invitational. That complaint seeks unspecified damages for a “humiliating, dehumanizing and dignity-stripping ordeal” in front of family and friends.