Those Manchester United supporters of an optimistic persuasion – and they must be dwindling in number – could tell themselves they almost won this.
With two minutes of normal time remaining, their young substitute Alejandro Garnacho had the ball in the net. An awful lot happened in the ten minutes or so that followed but had that marginal offside call not gone Arsenal's way the outcome of this absorbing contest would in all likelihood have been very different.
However, the sobering statistics for United and their manager Erik ten Hag are as follows.