Unai Emery wants to write a new history at Arsenal. It is one of his buzz phrases and he reaches for it at every available opportunity. On a frenetic night in north London, the club’s new manager could delight in a performance of intensity and old-fashioned guts.
Would the team of the later Arsène Wenger years have fought back to equalise in the closing stages? Would they have continued to believe against opposition as streetwise as Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool? The point was no more than Arsenal deserved and it came when Alexandre Lacazette nipped on to a pass from the substitute Alex Iwobi and outfoxed Alisson, who had been lured off his line, before curling home.
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