After the first few games, where results were largely influenced by the previous and next factor, the media immediately started to pick up on the pattern. Every matchday the talk was about how few goals Arsenal had scored away from home, or the limited number of wins.

That sort of thing gets in your head.

Similarly, the fact that the team know how strong they are at home has a similar effect. That extra bit of confidence helps with putting chances away, staying focused and switched on at the back, and showing a bit of fight when necessary.

Arsenal keep falling apart in the same way defensively, conceding late goals after getting into good positions. Again, the regularity of that occurrence is going to get in the players’ heads, and it’s also going to give their opponents the belief to keep going.

Now that Arsenal have a new striker to help ease the pressure on Lacazette, and a new attacking setup, the team needs to break out of those patterns and find some defensive solidity as well.

Hopefully they can get a new run going away from home, and for now the best way to do that is by taking things game by game, starting with Brighton on March 3rd.