Terrace Talk: Arsenal - Up there with the best and worst of our heroic defeats

“We’ll be punished if we play like this on Saturday.” It’s not often the crowd at the Emirates grumbles in agreement, but that was the general sentiment in N5 just before 9pm last Wednesday.

Having strolled to an early one-goal advantage against Huddersfield, Arsenal were doing their utmost to gift the visitors an equaliser. Time and time again we casually ceded possession in dangerous parts of the pitch triggering counter attacks that left our defence brutally exposed. For 20 minutes either side of the break, Petr Cech’s goal led a charmed life.

Then, in the blink of an eye, Wenger’s jazzers, led by Mesut Ozil, found their rhythm again. Three goals in four minutes settled the nerves and a further strike, with three minutes remaining, added a gloss to a typically Jekyll and Hyde performance.