After waiting 101 days to play a match of competitive football again, it took Bukayo Saka only seven minutes of action to make a decisive mark. This is what big players do, seizing the moment when all eyes are upon them, and at Arsenal there is no player bigger than the academy graduate who has become a world-class attacker.
In the eyes of Arsenal’s supporters, there is not a footballing star who can shine as brightly as the England winger. The love for him in north London is so extreme that his arrival as a second-half substitute against Fulham prompted an even louder cheer than Arsenal’s first goal of the night.