A brace from Alexandre Lacazette and a late Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang volley handed us a 3-1 win over Valencia in the first leg of our Europa League semi-final on Thursday night.
But what did we learn from our outing at Emirates Stadium? Read on to find out...
A RAPID RESPONSE
Slow starts and rapid responses were the theme of the early months of the season, and the trend returned here - squeezed into 25 first-half minutes. Valencia got their tactics right early on, the energetic Diakhaby shielding a defensive line that’s been hard to breach in La Liga and gave us very little room to manoeuvre.