Arsenal looked more worried about the wind and rain.
Category: Arsenal
Brighton vs Arsenal: testing afternoon awaits Gunners on south coast
I would be surprised if it was anything less than an incredibly uncomfortable afternoon.
Arsenal 3 Spurs 1: Clinical Gunners starting to take shape
Instead of facing the chop, the manager has bought himself breathing space and time for this project to develop and what a way to do it.
Arsenal 3 Wimbledon 0: Slow and steady wins the race
It's a game that will hardly go down as a classic, much more a routine win
Why youthful Arsenal will need Granit Xhaka this season
When defending a single-goal lead away at Turf Moor, a centre midfield pairing with a combined average age of about 22.5 and just a single full international cap between them does little to improve confidence.
Burnley 0 Arsenal 1: Young Gunners show they have the stomach for it
Goals win games, of course, but on Saturday it was the defence who took all the plaudits - and rightly so.
Burnley vs Arsenal: How far will Dyche’s men push it?
If PGMOL really wanted to preserve fluidity of the game, it might have looked at working on its appalling implementation of VAR, which had served only to make the game a sideshow, but, alas, it settled on a re-imagining of 1990s football thuggery instead.
Arsenal v Norwich: Well, it’s a start !
Among the crowds of fellow fans, the tension was more palpable, the mood more on edge, the sense of nervousness more profound.
Arsenal v Norwich: the time for excuses is over
Seldom has an Arsenal team looked so vulnerable as the one we have seen recently.
There’s gas in the tank, now it’s time to get this club moving
The personal travails of the manager aside, he will surely be pleased with the crop of players he now has at his disposal, a group fast-approaching the sort of dynamic, focussed, willing-to-work collection of players he seems to favour. These are a group of young leaders in the making, a young group that seems willing to listen and learn and with the capacity to do so.
