Opening night or an encore? There will be significantly tougher games ahead for Arsenal, but all indications from this one would suggest complacency will not be among any shortcomings in their defence of the title.
This was vicious and savage and effective in all the right ways. Had the Micky Quinn of 1993 been summoned by Coventry City, chances are he would have been dumped on his backside along with the rest of Frank Lampard’s men.
Naturally, there should be no rushes to judgment about what it all means, except to say that Mikel Arteta’s side kicked off this Premier League campaign
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