It was the team all Arsenal fans wanted, for a little while at least, so there was much excitement ahead of the game followed by a lot of sadness, some jubilation and a weird sense of disbelief that Arsenal actually managed to win a match.

Finally.

Some wanted David Luiz instead of Sokratis, nobody even cared that Shkodran Mustafi was nowhere to be seen again, and the attack was organised as it should be – with players playing where they are best.

This was going to be it, wasn’t it?

Here are some things I noticed from the game

Freddie knows Matteo needs time

He’s young. He was brought in to be ‘one for the future’ but Unai Emery picked him as often as he could, starting him in every league game this season.

Since Freddie has taken over, Guendouzi has started one of three games, and he was taken off in that, something that rarely happened under the Spaniard.

Too much responsibility was placed on his shoulders too soon as he arrived as a kid from a league significantly inferior to the Premier League.

It is right that he is guided into the first team, not just thrown at it like he’s a lump of silly putty we hope sticks.

Reports that Arsenal left Mustafi in Norwich are unconfirmed

Once again the German, for the second game after his horror show at Norwich, was nowhere to be seen in the squad.

Arsenal players looked like they remembered how to football

For the first hour or so the nerves throughout the side were palpable. It was explicit football instead of implicit.

Once that first goal went in, however, it’s lie they all suddenly remembered they know how to do this.

Kieran Tierney is harder than all of us

Although he was seen in a sling later in the evening before heading to hospital, Kieran Tierney was having no truck with a stretcher when both his legs were still attached. e simply got up, fashioned a sling from his own shirt and walked off.

Are we all just forgetting about Granit Xhaka and pretending it never happened?

Is that what we’re doing? Just quietly pretending it never happened? It would seem so.

Martinelli could be Arsenal’s saviour this season

He set a new Arsenal record on Monday night and is scoring at a rate that makes Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang look bad.

Many newspapers just make stuff up

You can still kick Arsenal players with impunity

https://twitter.com/arseblog/status/1204142062741929984

This wasn’t even a yellow card.

Arsenal had no shots on target on the first half for the first time this season

Arsenal fans are/were seriously concerned about relegation during the game against West Ham

Sky got their stats wrong and just kept going

Turns out they meant to say ‘away from home’ but they just kept repeating this stat instead.

Arsenal are world politics in football form

Pepe didn’t arrive against West Ham, he’s been here all season

Are we just forgetting the two wonderful free-kicks he scored earlier in the season? Or what he did to Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk?