As navigate their path to the finish line, they must feel on a far steadier footing now their trip to Manchester City is behind them. The Etihad is where legs so often go to jelly and the ground gives way, even for the best teams. To emerge unscathed is no mean feat. Advertisement Last season, the journey to Manchester came a month later, but Arsenal were barely standing by the time they got there.
They were a zombie version of the team that had raced into a 10-point lead at the top of the Premier League, fatigued by weeks of energy-sapping drama and a squad over-reliant on too few players. This time, Arsenal look steadfast, cold-blooded. The way they were able to execute a second-half rope-a-dope strategy on Sunday without looking mentally or physically stretched suggests they have energy conserved for these final two month