Arsenal: Exciting pre-World Cup prediction emerges at the Emirates

Arsenal have a great chance of going into the World Cup as Premier League leaders, according to journalist Paul Brown.

The Gunners continued their outstanding start to the season with a 1-0 victory at Leeds on Sunday, which saw them move four points clear at the top of the table.

With Arsenal going great guns and Leeds enduring a difficult run of results, on paper it looked like being a comfortable win for the visitors.

But three points are never easy to come by in the Premier League, as Mikel Arteta's side discovered at Elland Road.

Bukayo Saka might have scored for the third game on the bounce to put them ahead, but the Gunners had to weather several Leeds storms after the break.

And they rode their luck massively on two occasions, with Patrick Bamford unfortunate to see his goal ruled out by VAR before the ex-Chelsea striker missed a penalty.

Arsenal then had to rely on another VAR decision going their way after Leeds were awarded a late penalty and Gabriel was sent off, although a Bamford push seconds earlier meant the Brazilian was only booked and the spot kick was overturned.

Regardless, Arsenal managed to hold on to collect another three points, which ensures they've won nine of their first 10 games for the first time ever in the Premier League.

Another four wins from their next four games will ensure they head into the break next month sitting pretty at the top, and Brown reckons they have every chance of achieving that feat.

He told GIVEMESPORT: "It's a nice little run for them and you'd expect them the way they're going to keep putting the points on the board.

"The other teams around them haven't really found much consistency either yet, so there's no reason to think that Arsenal won't be top of the league by