And this was deeply impressive at a cagily overcast Emirates, measured yet relentless, nothing resembling stagnation or fear. What, if anything, has changed in the week since stumbling past Newcastle? Yes, Fulham were soft and disconnected, but for much of the past few months that would have been irrelevant to Arsenal. Helpfully this has been perhaps the best week of Gyökeres’s Arsenal career, his ninth and 10th goals in the past 12 league matches, indications he is adapting not just to the team but to the league, finding his place and purpose. But perhaps it is that the finish line is finally visible, the lingering sense that more than victory or defeat, all everyone involved wants now is for this to be over, to think about something different, for the ground to stop trembling. There was something oddly free about the clinicalness with which they comported themselves.