Liverpool visit perfect chance to show Arsenal have bucked old stereotypes

Unable to beat the big four? Well, that’s the one box still to tick for Gunners

Arsenal's Alexandre Lacazette celebrates scoring his sides second goal from a penalty during the Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium, London. Picture date: Sunday March 13, 2022.

With Liverpool arriving at the Emirates on Wednesday, there’s a real sense building in north London that Mikel Arteta’s side are finally ready to put themselves back amongst the big guns and jettison the myriad of negative stereotypes attached to them by critics over the last few years.

Victory over a Leicester side that had won four games in a row in all competitions was vibrant, confident and assured - and Arsenal, sitting fourth, are now building the kind of consistency that has proved elusive for so long.