It was only in stoppage time of this increasingly frenetic tie that Arsenal could truly breathe easily. Alexandre Lacazette, sent on from the bench when authority appeared to be on the wane, leapt to nod a ball over Brentford’s centre-halves before wriggling clear and finishing crisply into a corner. It was a goal to confirm a sixth successive win in all competitions and add gloss to the scoreline, but it said much that the celebrations which followed were tinged with relief.
Brentford, upwardly mobile in the Championship and hugely impressive once they had shed the anxiety which rather inhibited their first-half display, had provided Unai Emery’s team with a real test.
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