Rhode Island FC surrendered three goals to fall for the first time at home this season on Friday night.
Liverpool have turned it around in the second half at West Ham.
Crystal Palace are set to join the race for Maxence Lacroix this summer as European clubs look closely at the Wolfsburg centre-back.
First the North London derby, and then, on Monday, another meeting that could either go some way towards shaping the world to Arsenal’s benefit or indeed the other direction, which is the kind of major fork in the road to which the club has grown accustomed in the last two decades.