Unrecognisable. A 12-month transformation, the table flipped on its head. Then: three games, no goals and bottom. Now: three games, goals flowing and top. True, the fixture list has been much kinder than this time last year, but it is the nature, the style of this Arsenal side that has heads turning. A confidence, a pazzaz missing for years.
Their new captain, Martin Ødegaard, set them on their way with a brace inside a dozen minutes, William Saliba adding second-half gloss. Bournemouth were simply dismantled, a south-coast battering that they did not have the defences for.
