Arsenal: 5 talking points from 1-0 win over Norwich

5. Mikel Arteta Marches On, Slowly

The importance of victory could not be understated.

Three points against Norwich lifts the Gunners up to the lofty reaches of 15th place ahead of Leeds and Burnley playing their matchweek four fixtures. The table still makes you cringe.

Arteta can now begin looking upwards.

Had Arsenal have failed to net that crucial goal then even if there were positive aspects of the performance, the failure to earn a result would have plunged the manager into the depths of despair. You’d have got good odds on who would be sacked next, put it that way.

But key to note is that those odds won’t have changed even after Saturday.

It’s pleasant watching the manager smiling in his post-match interviews and discussing positive points. That has to continue.

While Arsenal may have peppered the Norwich goal with 30 shots, the scoreline still reads 1-0 against a winless Canaries. Nobody is under any illusions that this solves anything. It prevents certain narratives. It doesn’t shift the needle.

Arteta lives to fight another day.