Pep got it spot on, played the game to expose their weak points and not play into their hands for once and we made it look simple in the end. Little tweaks like haaland actively cutting off supply to VVD and forcing konate onto the ball are details we don't typically see, that has ljinders inner know how all over it for me, he knows their weaknesses better than anybody.
We were fantastic in large parts, mainly first half but most of the second half, especially once it went to 3 we dropped off and gave away many really good chances that the dippers inexplicably failed to convert.
I'll put that down to us playing the scoreline though. At 2 and then 3 up we didnt need to be dominating, just had to keep them out and we did exactly that. Just need to work on prolonging our good periods in games. The pleasing thing to me is that is nowhere near the highest level we can reach, feel like there's at least 2 more gears for us to find and that's before adding Rodri back into the mix.
Statement result right on the heels of arsenal dropping points is exactly what we needed, they'll have 2 weeks to shit the bed every night thinking of us coming up behind them now. Hope pep sends him a friendly text during the week, arteta comes across as the type who would let that eat at him all week. Wibble wibble Mikel.