Arsenal get out what they put in
Thursday night's clash at the Emirates is a strange one to analyse in many ways. Normally at the end of a match that runs to penalties while containing a goal from the halfway line, 10 shots on target and a red card, you feel as though you've just stepped off a rollercoaster. This one though, barely reached the speed of a Ferris wheel.
It's not that Arsenal didn't care. Alex Zinchenko was geeing up the fans from before kick-off, while Martin Odegaard was constantly raising his arms and winding his wrist to try and answer Mikel Arteta's call for a "big European night" at the Emirates. Gabriel, meanwhile, could be seen yelling towards Fabio Vieira, pointing to his head to encourage the Portuguese midfielder to focus, but ultimately that intensity wasn't there.
