When you concede a goal in stoppage time, you always have to say you’re disappointed with the result, but perhaps in the fullness of time this 2-2 draw we had at Sunderland yesterday won’t be seen as the dropped points it feels like this morning.

I was impressed with Sunderland as a side. They are well organised, they sit in a deep low block with bodies in and around their penalty area, but they also press high and intelligently. This isn’t a side that just push everyone up and press when we have the ball in our own defensive third; they pressed only at certain trigger points and it made for a frustrating first half for Arsenal for sure.

And the big worry once they’d gone ahead, was that we were going to get a ‘horseshoe of death’ game, in which we don’t create chances, we huff and puff, but the opposition just sit in their shape and head crossed balls away from their box. That was certainly what happened in the first half and with the first goal of the game it was certainly an industrial one that befitted the first half. Long ball, not challenged well by...