Mikel Arteta welcomed the deserved criticism raining down upon his Arsenal side after their slip-up against Wolverhampton Wanderers in midweek. “We need to go through the pain,” he warned his players. “We need to keep all that in our tummies to show it on Sunday.”
That hurt burst forth in the form of a 4–1 thumping against Tottenham Hotspur, which represented Arsenal’s largest league victory away to their arch rivals since 1978.
