We can all accept that Arsenal are going to walk to the Premier League title and so the rest of us must try and find some entertainment in whether they can break any records in the process.

Manchester City’s impending doom, along with other usual title challengers being in ‘transition’, makes it hard to see any team other than Arsenal lifting the Premier League crown.

But could Arsenal at least do us a favour and make it record-breaking? Here are some of the long-standing achievements Mikel Arteta’s team could surpass this season…

Biggest Premier League title-winning margin
If we all presume City will be hit by a big points decision, you are looking at the rest of the Premier League table and wondering where the challenge will come from.

Brighton are our best/only hope but this is their first season challenging for a title alongside European football, while usual contenders Liverpool and Chelsea both look flawed.

Arsenal are very close to maximum points so far this season with just one stumble, and could feasibly win the title by a great margin.

The biggest title-winning gap in terms of points is City in the 2017/18 season with 19. If you are of the opinion that City’s achievements from that time should be null and void, then you are looking at the 18-point gap of Liverpool in 2019/20, which extends to 33 points if you remove City from that season.

Setting aside the logistical nightmare that is City, the number to beat is 19 – not impossible for Arsenal this season.

If the top four, excluding City, continued at their current points-per-game ratio, Chelsea would be on 61, Liverpool on 68, Brighton on 84 and Arsenal on 103, equaling the 19-point gap.

Would that be unlikely? Yes, but it is possible.

In doing so, they would also likely get close to another record: the most matches remaining after winning the title, which currently stands at seven, set by 2019/20 Liverpool.

Fewest points to win a Premier League title
If you are, say, a Spurs fan who has accepted Arsenal are going to win the league, you may try and take some solace in hoping they do it in a historically poor way.

The lowest tally ever recorded by a Premier League champion is the 75 set by Manchester United in the 1996/97 campaign.

Having won the Premier League last season and ended the domestic drought, the Champions League may be Arsenal’s biggest focus this campaign.

You could easily imagine a scenario in the new year where Arsenal have a comfortable cushion at the top of the league and put their focus on Europe instead. Their league form could suffer as a result.

Fewest goals conceded in a Premier League season
The Sistine Chapel of good defences is Jose Mourinho’s 2004/05 Chelsea; we are on record as saying that tally will never be broken.

In the self-dubbed Special One’s first season, Chelsea conceded just 15 goals.

They were accused of playing boring football, although critics would say it was positively giddy compared to this current Arsenal, but they exactly halved the number they have conceded the season before. Eight teams have already conceded more this season after just 10 games.

There’s your bar, Arsenal.

In comparison, Arsenal were practically porous last season with 27 goals going in and they’ve already shipped five this season, three of which came against Brighton.

Chelsea at this stage had conceded just one and if Arsenal want to at least equal the tally, they can afford to concede no more than one goal every 2.5 games.

It’s probably not going to happen but with William Saliba returning to the fold, it is a possibility.

Fewest goals scored by a Premier League champion
In fairness to Arsenal, City and Liverpool set a very high bar of what is expected from a Premier League champion and so maybe Arsenal not hitting those heights is actually a regression to the mean.

It’s also a perception thing. When you imagine Leicester winning the Premier League title in the 2015/16 season, you see Jamie Vardy hammering in volleys. You see Riyad Mahrez tricking his way to the edge of the box before curling one into the top corner. And yet the Foxes are the joint-second lowest scorers as a Premier League champion.

The lowest goes to Manchester United of the 1992/93 season. And that was a 42-game season! Mark Hughes was the only player to reach double digits, while Ryan Giggs and Brian McClair were one off. Defenders Steve Bruce and Denis Irwin were joint fifth top scorers at the club. Does that remind you of anyone?

Arsenal could easily hit fewer than 67. They currently have 15 from 10, giving them a 1.5 goals-per-game ratio. Extrapolate that for the rest of the season and it is 57 goals come the end of the year.

Fewest goals by a Premier League champion’s top scorer
Look at the Premier League top scorers list this season and you will have to scroll a long way down to find an Arsenal player.

Kai Havertz, Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka are all joint top scorers but have got just three this season, putting them joint 14th in the league.

It’s nothing new either. Top scorer Viktor Gyokeres was only seventh in the league last year with 14 goals but Arsenal have shown you do not need a free-scoring forward to win the Premier League.

Given Gyokeres has been banished to the shadow realm and Havertz is very injury-prone, you would fancy Arsenal to beat the record for the fewest goals by a Premier League champion’s top scorer.

That unwanted accolade is currently shared by Frank Lampard in the 2004/05 season and Ilkay Gundogan in the 2020/21 campaign with 13 goals.

But those two both played teams that spread the goals around. For Chelsea, Eidur Gudjohnsen and Didier Drogba both got over 10 while Joe Cole, Arjen Robben and Damien Duff scored six or more. Chelsea had 12 different goalscorers in total.

It was a similar story with City. Raheem Sterling joined Gundogan on double digits. Gabriel Jesus, Mahrez and Phil Foden all scored nine. City had seven goalscorers hit five or more. 16 different players scored for a team that ended on 83 goals.

Last season, Gyokeres was the only player to score more than 10 while Saka and Eze were next best on seven. They did spread the goals around with 19 different scorers, but own goals contributed their joint eighth-most goals.

Most 1-0 wins in a Premier League season
‘1-0 to the Arsenal’ they like to sing, and for good reason.

Arsenal registered seven 1-0 wins last season, their most frequent result, and you would not put it past them to do it again this year.

The record number of 1-0 wins is 11 set by, you guessed it, Mourinho’s Chelsea team in 2004/05. Arsenal themselves got seven 1-0 wins during that season.

It may not be very enjoyable for the neutrals, but Arsenal won’t care if it wins them the title, and they already have four this season.