If this was a fairy tale for Slovan Bratislava, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to face one of the giants of European football in the Champions League, they forgot to bring an axe with them to try to fell Manchester City.
There was a time when a small group of clubs with the wealth of Paris St-Germain threatened to leave an old heritage piece like Arsenal behind, but this was a night when the scope of Mikel Arteta’s rebuild of the club was clear again.
The Bluebirds earned their first win of the season with a triumph over Millwall