Ødegaard's goal finally breaks Hull's stubborn resistance as Arsenal stay top

Arsenal fans know all about waiting. Twenty-two years without a Premier League title teaches you patience. So another 90 minutes of grinding against a Hull side that refused to budge was basically par for the course under Mikel Arteta.

Hull hadn't beaten Arsenal here since 2008. Fourteen attempts. Fourteen failures. You'd think that streak would crumble easily. It didn't. Not even close. Sergej Jakirovic's team came to play, and for most of the afternoon they looked capable of pulling off something genuinely special.

The frustration mounted. Arsenal had a legitimate penalty shout waved away just before half-time when Kai Havertz got shirt-pulled in the box. Weirdly, this happened a week after they got away with basically the same thing against Liverpool at Anfield — a moment that could've dominated every headline if it'd gone the other way. Funny how these things work out.

Then Martin Ødegaard stepped in. His fifth of the season. That's all it took. The Arsenal captain found the breakthrough with 20 minutes left, and suddenly Hull's resistance crumbled. Arsenal heads to the international break sitting pretty atop the table, and honestly, the gap feels significant.

They've racked up 27 points from 10 games — matching their own record for this stage of a season. Chelsea, managed by Enzo Maresca, are the next visitors after the break, and Arsenal's form right now suggests that won't go well for anyone chasing them. The rest of the league should be genuinely worried.