What Chelsea would do to own a striker as razor-sharp as Eddie Nketiah.
A failure to have an elite, healthy goalscorer following its squad rebuild costing more than $1 billion is really starting to hurt Chelsea, and it hit home in a 2-0 loss to Brentford in the Premier League on Saturday that continued the team’s woeful form at Stamford Bridge.
Arsenal has no problems on that front.
With Gabriel Jesus out for a few weeks because of a muscle injury, Nketiah — who made his England debut this month — came in as a back-up and netted a clinical hat trick in a 5-0 thrashing of Sheffield United. Nketiah’s haul was capped by a scorching strike from outside the area and highlighted the strength in depth at Arsenal, which is unbeaten after 10 games.
Arsenal moved back to two points behind north London rival Tottenham, which played Friday and beat Crystal Palace 2-1 to also stay undefeated and as the surprise leader heading into November.
With 24 points, Arsenal already has double that of Chelsea, which is languishing in 11th place and has won just one of its six home games so far — and that was only against promoted Luton.
