Mikel Arteta will have spent more arduous Easter Sundays attempting to hunt hidden chocolate eggs.
Aside from a few minutes of brief concern for Bukayo Saka’s raked achilles – an incident for which Leif Davis received his very early marching orders – this was as undemanding an afternoon as the Arsenal manager could ever have envisaged as he navigates a path to the more important matter of a Champions League semi-final with Paris Saint-Germain later this month. The Spaniard will put his players through tougher training sessions ahead of that showdown than the exertions required of them at Portman Road.
