# Arsenal win 1-0 at Anfield, their first league win there since 2012, and go top *Liverpool 0-1 Arsenal. Kai Havertz scored after 16 minutes from a low Declan Rice cross, and Liverpool hit the bar but could not find a way back. Arsenal lead the table by three points.* Matches · Published 23:41 CET, 1 Nov 2026 · Match News (https://matchnews.news/matches/arsenal-win-1-0-at-anfield-havertz-goal-takes-them-top/) By Matches desk · Reviewed by Fredrik Jurek Liverpool 0-1 Arsenal (Full time), 17:30 CET, 1 Nov 2026 (2026-11-01T16:30:00.000Z). Prices at BettingBeast before kick-off, last captured 17:23 CET, 1 Nov 2026. Percentages are the chance each price implied, before the bookmaker's margin. 18+ Home 3.04, Draw 3.59, Away 2.45. Arsenal beat Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield on Sunday evening and go top of the Premier League on their own. Kai Havertz scored the only goal after 16 minutes. It is Arsenal's first league win at Anfield since 2012, according to ESPN, and it comes four days before both clubs play in the Champions League. ## How it happened The goal came from a Liverpool mistake. ESPN's report says Alisson, the Liverpool goalkeeper, played a poor pass to Jérémy Jacquet, who could not keep the ball. Arsenal won it and moved it to the right, where Declan Rice ran outside Noni Madueke and pulled a low cross back across the goal. Havertz was waiting at the back post and tapped it in. Liverpool's own match report describes the same move: Rice overlapping Madueke, the low cross, Havertz at the far post. Arsenal came close to a second before half-time. Bruno Guimarães curled a shot wide, Madueke knocked a ball back that Jurriën Timber could not turn in, and Rice forced a save from Alisson, as Liverpool's report lists them. Liverpool had their own moments. Florian Wirtz hit the crossbar with a free kick, and Alexis Mac Allister headed over from close range. The club's report also notes several penalty appeals that were turned down. ESPN says the video referee checked a coming-together between Cody Gakpo and Christos Tzolis, and it questions why there was no action over a pull on Alexander Isak's shirt by Timber as Isak went for a header. The second half followed the same pattern: Liverpool had most of the ball, Arsenal defended well and stayed dangerous on the break. Isak shot over from a tight angle. Tzolis had a first-time shot saved by Alisson at the other end. Andoni Iraola, the Liverpool manager, sent on Dominik Szoboszlai after 58 minutes and Rio Ngumoha after 67, then made three more changes at 82. The last clear chance was a header by Victor Muñoz from a Kostas Tsimikas cross, which David Raya saved. ESPN's view of the night is that Liverpool "lacked composure in the final third" and that Raya was rarely troubled. The crowd was 60,406, according to Liverpool's report. ## What it changes Arsenal now have 24 points from nine games, three more than Manchester City, who lost at home to Brighton on Saturday. Brighton are third on 19, Chelsea fourth on 16. Liverpool stay fifth on 15, nine points behind Arsenal after nine games, with four wins, three draws and two defeats. Two numbers from ESPN say something about the shape of Arsenal's season. They have now won all five league games in which they scored first. And Havertz's goal was his 46th in the Premier League, which takes him past Ilkay Gündogan as the competition's top German scorer. Both clubs are in Europe on Wednesday 4 November. Liverpool play at Fenerbahçe in Istanbul at 18:45 CET, and Arsenal play at Slavia Prague at 21:00 CET. In the league, Arsenal host Hull City on Saturday 7 November at 16:00 CET, and Liverpool go to Crystal Palace on Sunday 8 November at 15:00 CET. After that weekend the league stops for the international break. ## What the market said A betting price is a crowd's opinion written as a number, and dividing 1 by the price gives a rough chance. The last price BettingBeast's feed captured before kick-off, at 17:23 CET, made Arsenal the favourite: 2.45 to win, about a 41% chance. Liverpool were 3.04, about 33%, and the draw was 3.59, about 28%. Arsenal, the shorter price, won. That was close to where the price had sat all week, with the away side a little ahead of the home side at every capture since Friday. ## What was said Mikel Arteta, the Arsenal manager, told ESPN the result was "historic" after 14 years without a league win at Anfield. On the turn in mood from the start of the week, he said: "Four days later you have the opportunity to do something really historic, and we've done it." ## Sources 1. Match report: Liverpool narrowly beaten by Arsenal at Anfield (Liverpool FC) https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/match-report-liverpool-arsenal-premier-league-november-2026 - Read 23:36 CET, 1 Nov 2026 2. Arsenal hold off Liverpool for first win at Anfield since 2012 (ESPN) https://www.espn.com/soccer/report/_/gameId/401879246 - Read 23:36 CET, 1 Nov 2026 3. Arteta says Arsenal 'loved the mission' in first Anfield win since 2012 (ESPN) https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/50349973/arteta-arsenal-loved-mission-anfield-win - Read 23:41 CET, 1 Nov 2026 4. Premier League fixtures and standings (licensed feed, generated 2026-11-01T22:30Z, in data/latest.json) (football-data.org via Match News) https://www.football-data.org/ - Read 23:33 CET, 1 Nov 2026 5. BettingBeast closing prices, captured by this site's odds job (data/closing-lines/2026-11.json) (BettingBeast via Match News) https://matchnews.news/data/odds-series.json - Read 23:33 CET, 1 Nov 2026 --- 18+. 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