Arsenal narrowly surpasses Hull City and strengthens its lead in the English Premier League

Defending champion Arsenal struggled to overcome its guest, Hull City, 1-0, on Saturday, and stay at the top of the English Football League in the 10th stage. Despite its almost complete control of the match, Arsenal waited until the 72nd minute to translate the advantage through its Norwegian captain, Martin Odegaard, after he followed up on a ball blocked by Nuno Mawicki, which was returned by Greek goalkeeper Konstantinos Tzoulakis. Arsenal raised its score to 27 points at the top.

Tzoulakis played a prominent role in confronting Arsenal throughout the match, but he was unable to avoid the team’s third loss in a series of 9 matches in various competitions in which it did not taste victory.

Mikel Arteta's team played without international winger Bukayo Saka, who will be absent "for several weeks" due to injury, according to what the Spanish coach announced on Friday.

After the international break, Arsenal will play two difficult matches in the Champions League against Germany's Borussia Dortmund, then Spain's Real Madrid, on November 24 and December 9. Between these two summits, the team will host Manchester City in the English Premier League, before competing in the North London derby against Tottenham.

A series of 3 consecutive victories for Tottenham ended with their loss to host Leeds United 0-1 in a match that witnessed an arbitration controversy. The positive march of Italian coach Roberto De Zerbi's team stopped at Elland Road Stadium, in a result that seemed logical given the great control of Leeds in the second half, a half that witnessed the home team scoring the only goal of the match. But the London team will feel a lot of bitterness, and perhaps anger, because of the controversial shot that forced Frenchman Matthijs Thiel to leave the field injured at the end of the first half. As for the dangerous tackle, Jayden Bogle, he was only punished by calling a foul against him.

Bogle targeted the back of Till's left ankle, and surprisingly escaped a yellow card, and then a red card after a lengthy review by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR).

As for the French striker, he did not survive the injury. He remained on the field for a few minutes before he had to limp off.

Substitute Dominic Solanke saved his team when he blocked, with his thigh and from the goal line, a header from Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the 50th minute, during a second half that Leeds largely controlled.

Czech goalkeeper Antonin Kinski also excelled with his brilliant save with his right hand of a flying shot from Sean Longstaff in the 75th minute, but he was unable to do anything in front of the perfect shot from which Swiss Noah Okafor scored the goal of the match in the 79th minute, just seconds after entering the field. Newcastle United settled for a 1-1 draw with its host Fulham. Jacob Murphy scored for the first in the 80th minute, and for the second, Brazilian substitute Rodrigo Monis, in the 83rd minute.

Max Verstappen, the Rapid Bull driver, recorded the fastest time in the third and final free practice of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix in the Formula 1 World Championship, on Saturday, beating Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli, who won the championship title.

The Dutch driver, who won the title four times, recorded a time of one minute and 11.622 seconds, 0.025 seconds ahead of the 20-year-old Mercedes driver, who topped the second free trials at the Interlagos circuit on Friday.

Verstappen is scheduled to start Sunday's race from late positions on the starting grid, after receiving a penalty for changing the engine, while Ferrari drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc also face penalties that include a drop in their starting positions for using new internal combustion engines.

After taking first place in the first free trials, McLaren driver Lando Norris came in third place on Saturday, 0.131 seconds behind the leader, while Mercedes driver George Russell took fourth place. Russell will receive a five-place penalty at the start, also due to a change in the engine.

Leclerc finished fifth, while his teammate Hamilton finished the session in 12th place after engine problems. The 41-year-old Briton informed the team via radio of “strange” vibrations in the engine and smoke in the cockpit before he stopped.

Aston Martin's Lance Stroll completed just seven laps due to a problem believed to be related to the energy recovery system, finishing last.

Before his first participation in a Formula 1 race, Brazilian Rafael Camara, a Haas driver, ranked 15th, ahead of his teammate Oliver Biermann. Another Brazilian, Gabriel Bortoletto, an Audi driver, came in tenth place.

The qualifying trials will be held later on Saturday, in light of expectations of rain that has not yet reached the Brazilian circuit, which has a distinctive atmosphere.

Leipzig achieved a major victory over its guest Augsburg, 5-2, on Saturday, in the ninth round of the German Football League.

Leipzig turned a goal deficit into a massive five-point win, as Anton Kidd had taken an early lead for Augsburg in the first minute, only for Leipzig, the host, to punish him with three goals in the first half, which came from Ezekiel Banzozi in the 33rd minute, Christopher Nkunku in the 35th minute, and David Raum in the first minute of stoppage time.

Romulo added a fourth goal for Leipzig in the 60th minute, and six minutes later Christoph Baumgartner completed the five-pointer for Leipzig, finally reducing the gap for Augsburg's Ochena Ogundu in the second minute of stoppage time in the second half.

Leipzig's score rose to 18 points in third place, while Augsburg has 9 points in twelfth place.

In another match, Paderborn tied 2-2 with Eintracht Frankfurt, with Jonathan Burkadt scoring both goals for Frankfurt, which played with a numerical disadvantage since the 75th minute due to the expulsion of its player Elias Böhm, while Rafael Obermayer and Marvin Beringer scored for Paderborn.

With this draw, Frankfurt reached 12 points in eighth place, while Paderborn has 10 points in eleventh place.