After all the focus on Erik ten Hag, and all the impressive defiance of Cristiano Ronaldo, it was a Granit Xhaka day.
That doesn’t just apply to his thunderous 70th-minute winner. It was that his personal redemption seemed such a fitting peak for a hurricane of an occasion. It was not quite that Arsenal won a “football match” against Manchester United 3-1, but that they managed to force their way through the gale-force winds of this 90 minutes.
