Eight minutes, three touches and a corner of net. That is all Bukayo Saka needed on his return to Arsenal’s line-up on Sunday to breach the Premier League’s best defence and simultaneously restore a sense of energy and calm to the Emirates Stadium.
He had missed just two club matches with an injury picked up on international duty, but that had felt an age for a player whose durability is renowned, and whose workload and work rate in his young career have at times bordered on the obscene.
