One game doesn't make a season and it's still way too early to get carried away, but if that is a taste of things to come just maybe I've been wrong about Bilic?
On the evidence of the Europa league games the players didn't seem to be buying in to his style of play and actually looked worse than some of the bad games last season.
But this was a supreme performance with everyone playing well even players like Zarate and subs Jarvis and Maiga who I thought should have been offloaded in the summer.
Reece Oxford has grabbed the headlines, but Noble, Kouyate, Sakho and Payet were brilliant and the defence was solid as a rock.
Arsenal were poor, but we made them look that way and it did help having agent Cech in goal (Mourinho must have been pleased).
I liked the comment in the commentary that Bilic was a master of the "dark arts", and the possible arrival of Joey Barton makes me wonder if there is a plan to make us compete with the diving, cheating players that most of the top teams have?
So a big smile for the rest of the week and who knows?
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