To roll out one of the tiredest, most hackneyed footballing adages... there truly isn’t a single easy game in this league.

It feels an enormous ask for our players to turn up to every fixture with a cup final mentality, and for us to continually demand statement victory after statement victory from them.

Forest away is an established banana skin for our boys, and it was a hugely satisfying relief to see the Gunners come away with three points.

But Sunday is echelons above it. Sunday is as big as they come. It’s a vital, vital, vital, vital game. It’s massive.

Sunday is massive for Liverpool

As if they needed any buoying, the news of Jurgen Klopp’s imminent departure has of course only further stoked the fairytale fire in their bellies.

The footballing script writers are seemingly at it again. Five points clear at the top of the table, and an uninspiring Chelsea easily dispatched, Liverpool must feel perfectly situated to push on to the title. And they know that a victory against the Gunners on Sunday will all but end our League ambitions. The Liverpool bandwagon needs a good few dents put into it, and it needs them urgently.

Sunday is massive for Man City

Thirteen points from their last possible fifteen, and a famously inflated, expensive squad (*cough cough* 115 charges) now almost entirely injury-free, City are a constant, malignant, headache-inducing presence at the top end of the table.

A slip-up on Sunday from either Arsenal or Liverpool would serve as an invitation (that City simply don’t need) to further propel them towards the relentless back-end form that has become their signature under Pep. God, I hate them so much.

Sunday is massive for the Emirates

Here comes another spin on the broken record. Reduced Ashburton Allocation, ballot changes, last year’s precedent, and so on, and so on, and so on.

The discourse around the atmosphere at the Emirates this season is loud. But, come Sunday, the noise from the Arsenal faithful has to be louder. If there is a fixture that we know we absolutely need to get up for, it’s this one.

We’ve heard Arteta, Odegaard and the entire squad speak regularly in junkets and pressers on the capacity of the home crowd to lift their performances.

And we cannot ignore that the atmosphere at statement victories this season (United and City to name a few) have equaled the dizzy heights of the very best days of the Emirates era. Our home has to be an arena where the league’s best teams are put to the sword.

As I watched from my sofa, I could barely believe how easily and how consistently the Forest fans were being drowned out by our inevitable, incredible away support. I have no doubt that the Emirates crowd will be similarly exceptional on Sunday, from The Angel to minute ninety.

And Sunday is massive for Arsenal Football Club

Can you do it, boys? Can we take that step? A win puts us two points off the league leaders, it cements our standing in

the title race, and it sends a clear message to the entire roster that we can, and will, beat any opposition in this league.

Can we spoil the party? I believe. If there’s one thing that this squad of players has more than earned, it’s my belief.

Go well, Gunners. Enjoy the game, and dear God... please... let us come away with three massive points.