I hope I can come on here after another 28 matches just like yesterday, because the keyword of the day will be this every time if I do:

Routine.

That needs to be the definer of Arsenal this season with games like this and if Arsenal can continue to put in performances like they did against a functional, not terrible, but ultimately limited Burnley side, then we will indeed receive that glorious pot of Premier League gold at the end of the proverbial rainbow.

Arteta brought back the big guns for this one following the League Cup rotation at the weekend and the impact was obvious. Where – understandably – the team on Wednesday who had not played together allowed Brighton a few opportunities to capitalise, this first XI gave absolutely no quarter. Burnley got nothing and for the third time this season in the Premier League, Arsenal reduced a team to speculative hopeful half chances, with not a single shot on target. The closest they came was when the ball struck the post on 96 minutes but by then the game was done.

But perhaps, in reality, the game was ‘done’ as early on as 14 minutes, when...