Arsenal: Footage of electric Emirates atmosphere emerges from Leicester win

Mikel Arteta is building something special at Arsenal.

The writing was on the wall for great swathes of last season with many a Gooner falling in love with the club all over again despite the race for Champions League football eventually unravelling.

However, in many ways it was besides the point anyway, because finishing fifth has a lot more bells and whistles on it when achieved in an exciting, forward-thinking manner that creates a promising vision for the future.

At the end of the day, battling it out with Tottenham Hotspur until the final day of the season was still a big step in the right direction on the back of two years marooned down in eighth place.

All that, and Arteta achieved it with one of the most youthful squads in Europe, investing faith in the likes of Bukayo Saka, Emile Smith Rowe and Gabriel Martinelli to rekindle the old romanticism of Arsenal.

And what’s important is that the progress seems to keep rising and rising because there’s justified optimism around Emirates Stadium right now that Arsenal are on course for an even better season in 2022/23.

The Gunners looked like a force to be reckoned with in pre-season as the inspired signings of Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko, as well as the long-awaited return of William Saliba, gave them a real boost.

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It wasn’t a false dawn either because the north London club have transferred that summer promise into the season proper, opening up 2022/23 with wins over Crystal Palace and Leicester City.

And although two victories against mid-table opposition might not set the world alight, it’s also the way in which Arsenal secured the six points that has inspired