A Paris Saint-Germain side struggling to come to terms with their new manager; Edinson Cavani struggling to recapture form and to come to terms with filling the enormous hole that Zlatan Ibrahimovic left. It was a perfect opportunity for Arsenal, in what was their hardest game of the group phase, on paper, to get their Champions League campaign off to a positive start.
And within 44 seconds, Cavani had given PSG the lead.
Of course he did. This is Arsenal: finding familiar ways to underachieve for around a decade.
