This match will also be shown on Prime Video, rather than Sky Sports or BT Sport, after being rescheduled to accommodate Arsenal’s Europa League tie with PSV in October. Going one better and achieving an elusive Champions League return was generally regarded as Arsenal’s ceiling this season. They have emphatically smashed through that already; now the question is not whether Arsenal will finish in the top four but if they can go all the way and win their first league title since 2004 and the glory days of Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Arsene Wenger’s Invincibles.

Their form has been uncharacteristically patchy post-World Cup and Joao Cancelo’s out-of-the-blue move to Bayern Munich was interpreted by some as evidence of a breakdown in harmony in the dressing room. Cancelo’s departure has left City light on full-back options too and brought into sharp focus the baffling decision to sell Oleksandr Zinchenko to Arsenal last summer.

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