With a full week off from football for those Arsenal players, this week must feel like quite the blessing, it has to be said. If you want to understand the importance of finishing in the top eight of the Champions League, it’s this moment of time we’re in right now, and you could see why Arsenal and Arteta would have been very appreciative of the form in the European Cup. It affords him the opportunity to give his players some rest, but also for some of them to recover from the inevitable fatigue that had crept in, in recent weeks.

We’ve all seen the stats about Timber and Zubimendi, as the first two cases in point, and both of them haven’t quite been their imperious selves as of late. Indeed, for the NLD, we learned afterwards that Timber was carrying something, hence being taen off during that second half. He had been clearly on ‘the edge’ in the Wolves game, with perhaps the adrenaline of the NLD getting him through it, and I will admit to having some very real concerns that a trigger-card happy Peter Banks would show him marching orders at some stage after he picked up...