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📅 27/12/25🕒 15:00🏟️ Emirates Stadium🧑‍⚖️ John Brooks, England
Home team

Arsenal

Score
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2-1
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Away team

Brighton

Biggest Swing+1.63 xT52' G. RutterCards5

Arsenal 2-1 Brighton — xTears 12.25 (27/12/25)

Arsenal won 2-1 against Brighton on 27 December 2025 during Matchday 18 of the Premier League, even with the xTears split tilting slightly the other way. Total damage: 12.25 xTears.

Even with the xTears split leaning slightly the other way, the heaviest moments for Arsenal still ran through D. Gómez at 64' goal (+1.14 xT) and M. Ødegaard at 14' goal (+1.41 xT).

The scoreboard and xTears did not tell exactly the same story: Arsenal punished better without fully owning the emotional volume.

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How it unfolded

Timeline
  1. 14'

    Goal

    M. Ødegaard - Arsenal

    Assist: B. Saka

  2. 52'

    Own goal

    G. Rutter - Arsenal

  3. 64'

    Goal

    D. Gómez - Brighton

Absolute chaos

🧨

5.59

52'

Own goal

+1.63 xT

G. Rutter - Arsenal

14'

Goal

+1.41 xT

M. Ødegaard - Arsenal

Assist: B. Saka

64'

Goal

+1.14 xT

D. Gómez - Brighton

87'

Substitution

+0.51 xT

C. Kostoulas for D. Gómez - Brighton

All-out war

🟥

4.64

90'

Yellow card

+1.00 xT

P. Hincapié - Arsenal

45+1'

Yellow card

+0.93 xT

B. Verbruggen - Brighton

50'

Yellow card

+0.93 xT

L. Dunk - Brighton

56'

Yellow card

+0.93 xT

D. Coppola - Brighton

Late drama

🔥

2.41

90'

Yellow card

+1.00 xT

P. Hincapié - Arsenal

87'

Substitution

+0.51 xT

C. Kostoulas for D. Gómez - Brighton

87'

Substitution

+0.51 xT

T. Watson for D. Coppola - Brighton

82'

Substitution

+0.39 xT

Gabriel Martinelli for L. Trossard - Arsenal

Cruelty

😈

1.63

52'

Own goal

+1.63 xT

G. Rutter - Arsenal

Referee scandal

🧑‍⚖️

Barely left a bruise

0

Nothing big fed this one.

Crushed hope

💔

Barely left a bruise

0

Nothing big fed this one.

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