If a routine Europa League group stage win is remembered for anything in a few months’ time, Arsenal’s fans might recall the mesmerising run along the byline by Gabriel Jesus that allowed Fábio Vieira to garnish the scoreline late on. Yet the most telling sequence arguably came shortly after the hour. Bodø/Glimt had improved since the interval and a dangerous raid down Arsenal’s left was their latest attempt, conviction growing each time, to erode a two-goal deficit. Busting everything to stop them was the blistering figure of Jesus, making up 60 yards and finally cutting out the danger inside his own box.
“When he does it, and he’s won everything in the last five years, imagine what the rest have to do,” Mikel Arteta said of a player who has driven performances, belief and standards since his summer arrival. “So follow him, because he’s always in the right spot.”
