The goals are back but no-one’s home

THERE was a marvellous moment immediately after our second goal against Owen Coyle’s Clarets on Sunday, when Eduardo stood looking up at the replays on the big screen, admiring his own footwork.

It was perfectly understandable, as his side-foot volley was indeed a thing of beauty. In fact we’ve been so starved of goals at our place of late that all three against Burnley seemed like works of art.

It felt as if the Gunners had started to rediscover the dynamism and the energy that’s been on the missing list for much of our lacklustre season on our trip to the Hawthorns. Nevertheless, we badly needed to demonstrate this in a home game, because otherwise one might’ve begun to believe that the Arsenal actually benefit from playing away, liberated by the knowledge that every mistake is not going to be met with the collective groans of 60,000 demanding Gooners.