Nottingham Forest 0-1 Arsenal: Premier League – as it happened

⚽ Updates from the City Ground; kick-off 4.30pm BST ⚽ Scores | Tables | Read Football Daily | Mail Daniel Arsenal spent the summer trying to by forwards and rightly so: they lack elite attacking quality, and well though they’ve done over the last few seasons, it has unarguably cost them.

The best summer acquisition though, was not a player, but the Premier League trophy or, more pertinently, the status of champions, also known as freedom.

It meant they didn’t need to fritter money on someone they knew at the time wasn’t of the standard they were seeking in the hope they might contribute a key moment or two which pushed them over the edge.

Instead, they could attack the season with confidence and without the desperate pressure of flailing failure, developing a style that could made the eyes bleed into a knowing, aggressive flow.

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