The Gunners made the trip to Bramall Lane on the back of scoring 25 goals in their opening six top-flight wins of the year, eleven of which had come in their previous two away matches.
Arsenal earned their biggest-ever Premier League road win with a 6-0 slaughter of West Ham United, before hitting Burnley for five and also putting four past Newcastle United on home soil.
Facing a Sheffield United side who had shipped five goals in each of their previous three home games, the script was written for Arsenal to prolong Chris Wilder's misery at Bramall Lane, and the Gunners were in another merciless mood in Sheffield.
A men-against-boys first half saw Declan Rice, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Martinelli and Martin Odegaard register for Arsenal alongside a Jayden Bogle own goal, before Ben White added a sublime sixth in front of the away end.
Arteta's men failed to find a seventh in the short time that remained — thereby missing out on setting a new club record for their most emphatic away league win in history — but a slice of English football heritage now belongs to Arsenal.
By hitting Sheffield United for six, the Gunners became the first team in England's top four leagues to win three successive away matches by at least five goals, and just the second to hit a quintet of strikes in the same sequence of top-tier matches.
Only the Burnley team of 1961-62 — who finished second in the First Division that year — had ever scored five or more goals in three straight English top-flight games away from home, and Arsenal's Premier League record in 2024 now reads seven wins from seven.
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