Arsenal beat Liverpool 1–0 at Anfield on Sunday 1 November, with Kai Havertz scoring in the 16th minute from a Declan Rice assist. Liverpool’s official results page confirms the score and scorer. The visitors then protected a one-goal advantage for the remainder of the match. ESPN’s match record.
ESPN records 17 Liverpool attempts but none on target, compared with ten Arsenal attempts and three on target. That distinction matters when assessing the home pressure: the volume of attempts did not become a registered effort on goal in the statistical record.
Liverpool had 56.4 per cent possession to Arsenal’s 43.6, yet the early breakthrough remained decisive. The league-table snapshot checked on 2 November places Arsenal first with 24 points from nine games, while Liverpool have 15 from the same number. The nine-point separation describes the current table rather than settling the eventual title race.
The match record dates this fixture to 2026-11-01T18:30:00+02:00 (Asia/Jerusalem). Source: ESPN match record, checked on 2 November 2026.
Additional context sources: Source 1 · Source 2.
Archival cover photograph: Archival photograph: Kai Havertz in action for Germany in 2026; not an image of the current event. Photographer/creator: YantsImages. Image source and metadata; CC BY-SA 4.0. The Wikimedia-supplied file is used without raster edits. Image date as recorded by the source: 2026-06-25 17:18:40.
