Top of the Premier League and now leading the way in France, too. On Saturday, Arsenal can stretch their advantage to eight points with victory at Everton.
Across the Channel, meanwhile, a foreign envoy continues to douse Ligue 1 in a dash of north London red. Folarin Balogun, on loan at Stade de Reims, has muscled his way above Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Lionel Messi to the summit of France’s scoring charts.
His 20-minute hat-trick on Wednesday, as Reims came from 2-0 down to beat Lorient, took Balogun’s tally to 14. Across the top five leagues in Europe, only Erling Haaland and Harry Kane have more.