The first chant from the away end started within sixty seconds and before 20 minutes were up, we had heard it three times. In Lucas Torreira, Arsenal have an emerging talent to admire.
It has been a while. On TV on Sunday, former Arsenal centre forward Ian Wright said his club had waited five years for a holding midfielder of quality.
For once, the excitable Wright was underselling things. It’s actually 10 years since the Brazilian Gilberto Silva played for Arsenal.
On these pages, another Arsenal luminary made an equally bold claim.