It’s easy to look towards the two headlines of Merino and the record-breaking back five from last night’s ultimately comfortable 3-0 win against Slavia Prague, but I have to say that to a man, that Arsenal team showed what a confidence-laden side looks like from minute one yesterday.

It wasn’t all plain sailing yesterday and for the opening skirmishes of last night’s away win Slavia Prague were well worth the title of being on top for the first 15 minutes or so. Their home fans were loud, they were determined to ‘get at’ Arsenal and I wondered if it might be a long night for Mikel Arteta’s men when they forced one or two minor errors in our passing. But this Arsenal team has been built on such strong and solid defensive foundations, that in reality, the minor moments of which I speak of never really amounted to anything concrete anyway. Indeed, it wasn’t until the latter stages of the game that even a shot on target was registered and such is the strength of our back line right now, that I personally was a little affronted that the home team even managed that. I was hoping that for...