Impressive Leeds fall short - analysis

It has been an excellent start to the season for Leeds, and the positive feeling around the team will not be harmed by this defeat against Arsenal.

While there will be disappointment at the result, a five-game unbeaten league start - the club's first in the top flight since 2001 - has given Daniel Farke's side the perfect platform from which to press on from their 14th-place finish last season.

Fortified in defence by the summer arrivals of goalkeeper James Trafford and centre-back Tarik Muharemovic, they had still conceded a joint-league low of three goals after a first hour in which they had bettered the champions.

The Gunners were caught offside four times in the first 16 minutes, with Ben White twice guilty of mistiming his run in attempting to beat a well-drilled Leeds back line.

Leeds' tenacity in defence was personified by midfielder Ao Tanaka's refusal to yield to Bukayo Saka's trickery before ending an Arsenal attack with a disciplined tackle during the first half.

Having been denied on several occasions by David Raya, including close-range strikes by marauding wing-backs Jayden Bogle and Gudmundsson, Leeds looked well-placed to end their long wait for a win at Arsenal following their breakthrough.

But Farke's side ultimately could not reassert themselves once the momentum flipped.