We made an unhappy return to Premier League football on Wednesday night, as Manchester City claimed a 3-0 victory at Etihad Stadium.
After a 102-day interval, and returning to very different Premier League conditions, you might have expected a cagy start – but there was none of that here.
Within five minutes Eddie Nketiah thought he had beaten the City backline to the ball only to be flagged offside, before Kevin De Bruyne forced Bernd Leno into a sharp save – and then Granit Xhaka was stretchered off with an ankle problem.
We were playing brightly with Nketiah at the fore, but another injury, this time to Pablo Luiz, proved a setback for Mikel Arteta as he sought to get one over his former club.