Five Positives Arsenal Can Take After Comfortable Win Over Newcastle United

The players are still desperate to play for Wenger

There were one or two absurd suggestions after the Stoke defeat that Wenger had ‘lost the dressing room’, universally recognised terminology for a dead manager walking. There is no sign of that at Arsenal, though – Wenger’s players ran through walls for their manager against Newcastle, an attitude that was summed up by Olivier Giroud’s lavish praise after the match.