Something we didn't have last year, maybe?

Yeah, I mean, I think that, if you consider as well that they hadn't conceded a goal this season.

And, you know, it would have been a bit of a shock for everybody.

But, yeah, I think that it's something that is built up over, you know, you get that confidence from winning a title and you just can't buy that kind of thing.

You know, it's like an injection of confidence into every single player.

And there's just this belief in the team.

That's another thing about the continuity of the side that Mikel Arteta's built up over the last six years.

Now, I know Konza is a good replacement, but is there still a slight worry there, do you think, with Saliba?

What does a typical Arsenal week look like for you as a, as a journalist covering the club?

For me, because I live in South London, it's quite a lot of, uh, driving to, or getting the train to St Albans and, uh, to the training center.

Uh, so normally, yeah, we have a press conference the day before the match, go to the match, and, uh, you know, I mean, by the time Mikel Arteta must be sick of the, sick of the sight of us.

[laughs] By the end of the...

If we have three matches in a week, you know, we've had six press conferences with him.

Um, but generally for me, I, I try to...

I don't, I do go to all the press conferences, but I try to just take a step back as well.

Mm

Yeah.

It's such a perfect goal, the way that we want to play, the, the, the tactic.

And so there, the few moments when we had the chance to string a few things together was brilliant.

And some of the, you know, the defending was, was unbelievable as well, you know, like the putting, putting their bodies on the line.

Adam Wharton was like throwing himself around.

I just loved his performance.

And then obviously ended up in hospital having a concussion check, so which was a bit sad for him.

like of, for in history, of course there have been great players but actually in terms of the manager and the setup and the, and the, the players sort of back to front, th- this is the one that is worthy of winning something.