TERRACE TALK: Arsenal - International interlude can’t come soon enough

Rarely can I recall being more relieved at the prospect of break from the relentless run of fixtures and hopefully a fortnight of international games which might afford some of our players much-needed recuperation.

Admittedly Spurs were likely to have been no less fatigued in advance of their short trip to the right end of the Seven Sisters Road, after having played Monday and Thursday. But they weren’t coming to our place on the back of the sort of psychological midweek battering that we endured in Munich.

Moreover, in the likes of Delle Alli and Dier and so many of the relatively new faces in Pochettino’s line-up, Spurs benefit from the fact they don’t carry the same baggage of some of their old stagers, who’ve grown more accustomed to playing second fiddle to the Arsenal. By contrast, judging by our comparative lack of intensity in the first half, doubtless some of the Gunners were guilty of taking our long-standing superiority for granted.