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"publishedAt": "2026-03-16T18:00:08.000Z",
"site": "https://defector.com",
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"Everton",
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"textContent": "Arsenal's blunt-object dominance of the Premier League has given non-Gooners little to enjoy this season. It's not much fun to watch a team set-piece and defend its way to a title, even if the whole point of soccer is to win games by any means necessary. I don't have to like it, and I don't have to respect it, but Mikel Arteta has cracked the code that has eluded so many previous Arsenal sides: score more goals than you concede. I know, real rocket surgery here, but Arsenal has almost entirely abandoned the aesthetic pursuits the club used to hang its hat on in favor of a win-at-all-costs mentality that has earned the club disdain and points in almost equal measure this season.\n\nOf course, if it were not for the so-called haramball deployed by Arteta and his band of soon-to-be Premier League champions, would Max Dowman's maiden Premier League goal have hit quite as sweetly as it did on Saturday?\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-yK6-zQsjM",
"title": "Teenager Max Dowman Gave Arsenal A Major Coolness Boost"
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