Arsenal's Dream Realized: Historic Champions League Title!

Minimum fuss in the end, as Arsenal still go for the maximum. It could genuinely be a unique season, as they also may end up the only English club left in the Champions League . For now, an already good week got even better, as this 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen didn’t just put them into the Champions League quarter-final; it puts them in a good place ahead of Sunday’s Carabao Cup final, which may yet be the first of four trophies this season.

Winning the actual quadruple is of course still a fantasy – the sheer number of games tend to catch up with you – but every match right now is making the vision that bit more real. Arsenal’s win over Leverkusen was lit up by Eze’s strike (PA) Perhaps the most important thing about this last-16 second leg, though, was that it was also Arsenal’s best attacking performance in some time – maybe weeks, maybe since the second half of the 4-1 over Aston Villa . It also featured what could be the club’s goal of the season: a perfect strike from Eberechi Eze .

He may be finally coming into his own, which could be crucial to Arsenal doing the same. They were far from fully free-flowing, and there were extended spells when an encouraging Leverkusen team put it up to them, but they were back to penning an opposition side in; to moving the ball around at an increasingly disorienting pace. That was most true of the period before Eze’s goal, which went some way to deciding the tie.

That itself may well have been shaped by Saturday against Everton . Max Dowman didn’t get to follow that up by coming on here, but his influence was arguably all over this game. That substitution may yet come to be seen as a before and after in the season.