As he reflected on his side's late defeat at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday, Erik ten Hag would have been wise to stop for a second to take it all in.
Arsenal should, after all, be a perfect template for what he is trying to achieve at Manchester United, where his work is bearing fruit during a first season which has been a lot more encouraging than many predicted, or indeed looked like it would be a couple of weeks in.
But with the Arsenal defeat surely strangling any hopes of gatecrashing the title race, what now for Ten Hag and United?
