"We had to wait and be patient in the last part of the game to make the difference and win the game. We kept generating chances, the final pass was missing or the last shot was blocked. We said at half-time if this is the case it will go all the way to full time but at some point it would come.

"We have some great moments, we need to put the chances we are creating against the opponent into the scoreline, That is what we need to improve."

• Arsenal have 27 points from their opening 10 Premier League games this season (won nine, lost one), only Chelsea in 2005-06, Manchester City in 2011-12, Manchester City in 2017-18 and Liverpool in 2019-20 have had more to begin a campaign in the competition (all 28).

• Arsenal have kept a clean sheet in each of their last 4 games in the Premier League, their last longer run of games without conceding a goal in the competition was a run of 5 games from 26th December 2005 to 14th January 2006.

• This was Arsenal's 34th 1-0 win under Arteta in the Premier League, more than any other side in the competition since his first game in charge in December 2019.