Tranquillity has returned to the club now that Alexis Sanchez is gone. He wasn’t some villain or anything, but it was impossible to enjoy anything with him in the team.

Every good performance was followed by the dreaded “yeah but” as his future usurped the headlines.

Crucially, his exit was followed by two exciting arrivals and Ozil extending his contract.

That has left the fans in surprisingly good mood in a season short of positive moments.

We know that the Arsenal fanbase can turn in an instant, but for now, it seems there’s a delicate unity among the supporters.

Xhaka’s performance against Swansea was nothing short of a disgrace, so it was a little surprising to see him keep his place against Everton.

The Swiss has been responsible for a decent number of goals we’ve conceded this season.

Meanwhile, Mohamed Elneny had started the last four matches and was looking decent.  The Everton game would have been an opportunity to keep the Egyptian in the side, most likely at Xhaka’s expense.

It’s clear, though, that Wenger is willing to give Xhaka chances to find his form.

On this occasion, he delivered a good performance.

He now has to show that Wenger’s continued confidence in his abilities is not misplaced.

It only took a week out due to illness for Wilshere to lose his place to Aaron Ramsey. He had been enjoying one of his best runs in the side before then, but may find getting back in the team a struggle.

Ramsey is a sure-starter regardless of his hat-trick heroics, while Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan will be the creative hub of the team.

Unless Wenger plans on using Wilshere as a holding midfielder or as a wide player, there’s simply not enough room for him in the starting line-up.

It’s not all bad, though.

Competition for places is a healthy thing for a team to have, and Wilshere gives us an excellent option off the bench. Just as he’s proven his fitness this year, he can prove he’s better than our other midfielders as well.

Iwobi was another surprise inclusion in the starting eleven.

He had a “nearly” game where he produced some fine moments yet also couldn’t quite find the final pass. Still, he didn’t look out of place in this “new” Arsenal.

The Nigerian international is an energetic player who lacks end product yet links-up very well with the players around him. His combinations with Ozil and Mkhitaryan helped unlock the Everton defence, and his willingness to track back and aid the defence gives us better balance on whichever flank he’s playing on.

The fans will have other ideas on who should play instead, but Iwobi can really shine in this new attack.

Three assists on your first start isn’t bad, is it?

Not since Santi Cazorla in 2013 has an Arsenal player managed to set-up three or more goals in a game. Mkhitaryan has earned many comparisons with the Spaniard and you can see why – he just oozes class and intelligence.

Arsenal have so often looked to Ozil for inspiration, but in Mkhitaryan they have a creator who can play anywhere in attack while Ozil drops deep.

The partnership between the two will be crucial to how Arsenal will play from now on.

If the Everton game is anything to go by, it’s going to be exciting.

Even in a 5-1 win, there were problems.

One was was our lack of focus in the second half, which saw Everton take the initiative and get a goal back.

It only proved to be a consolation, but it’s a reminder that Arsenal must remain focused for the full 90 minutes if they want to put a run of wins together.

We can hurt teams in short bursts. Now it’s time to improve how we manage games.

Between his own errors and the rickety defence that plays in front of him, that 200th Premier League clean sheet is never going to arrive.

Even with his team 4-0 up and comfortable, Cech still can’t be confident of keeping a goal out.

It may be petty to laugh at a manager who just suffered a 5-1 defeat, but in Allardyce’s case, he really tempted fate with his pre-match comments.

“It’s about being able to nullify the strengths of Arsenal and then, I’ve always felt, that defensively they are weak because of the amount of players they commit forward,” he said, as reported by Sky Sports.

“They haven’t scored as many goals as they have done in recent years at this stage of the season which gives us an opportunity to try and shut them out.”

The funny thing was, he wasn’t necessarily wrong in his assessment of the team. Had he won, he’d be a genius right about now.

Fortunately, we were spared a smug Allardyce when his team, in his words, played like crap and Arsenal, for once, did not.