Critics, says Emery

– but it is a style that can prove hard for defenders to manage.

“He is young,” said Emery. “He has a big commitment. He needs to improve, tactically maybe also, some things, but above all he needs to be calm with the ball in the attacking third, to have more assists and create more possibilities to score.”

Despite those jeers, Iwobi remains a long way from being the problem for Arsenal. That prize goes to the defence, which continues to exude an air of nervousness. Huddersfield had not scored in 597 minutes of football before Sead Kolasinac toed in a late own goal, and the worrying truth is that the home side could easily have had two.

Arsenal remain the only side in the Premier League without a clean sheet away from home this season. “We have to work on this because the defence, for me, is the most [important] thing to enable us to get back into the top four,” said goalkeeper Bernd Leno.

For Huddersfield, the end appears near. “If it [safety] is mathematically possible then we have to believe it can happen,” said Karlan Grant, who impressed off the bench in his second appearance since signing from Charlton Athletic. A second hat-trick in the space of just eight days means the Argentine has now moved level with Alan Shearer with the most in the Premier League – 11. They keep stacking up for Jose Mourinho’s compatriot and as much as Everton want stability, Silva looks like a man working with his hands tied behind his back.