If Arsenal finish the season with silverware, they might just look back at this month being the moment they proved they're the real deal.

Mikel Arteta has the Gunners flying - they are four points clear at the top of the Premier League, joint leaders of the Champions League group stage and now into the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.

The north Londoners are doing it in style and creating history along the way too. Wednesday night's cup win over Brighton marked the perfect October for Arteta's side and they've etched the club's name in the record books.

They have now become the first English top-flight team in history to win six games in a single month without conceding a single goal. On paper, this run was favourable with five home games at the Emirates - but it's still a remarkable achievement for a team looking to win their first league title since the Invincibles 2003-04 campaign.

This sequence of games has also been a marked improvement from last season, when they fell short in their bid to...