ARSENAL made club history in their Champions League clash with Slavia Prague.
The Gunners made it four wins from four in Europe’s Premier club competition with a 3-0 win over the Czech giants on Tuesday night.
A brace from makeshift striker Mikel Merino and a first-half penalty from Bukayo Saka fired the visitors top of the Champions League table.
And another steely display from the north Londoners’ defence saw Mikel Arteta’s charges make history.
The clean sheet in the Czech capital was the club’s EIGHTH in a row and saw them win eight straight in all competitions without conceding for the first time in their history.
The last time the Gunners went eight straight games without conceding was all the way back in 1903.
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The club wasn’t even in the English top flight and were still called Woolwich Arsenal.
Matching the club’s 122-year-old record is a source of immense pride for Arteta.
But the Spaniard doesn’t want his troops to rest on their laurels.
When asked about setting the clean sheet record, he said: “I want to maintain that.
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“Because it gives you something to defend and to merit.”
He added: “Well, that’s a long time ago so it tells you about the difficulty of achieving it.
“There is a lot of work there obviously to achieve that, and the most pleasing thing probably is not the record, it’s the mindset of the players.
“They are talking about how we can still do better, we see one or two situations that we could have resolved better.
“So, if we do that we can keep improving and that record will have a bigger meaning.”
Arteta’s troops will look make club history with a record ninth straight cleansheet on Saturday when they travel to the Stadium of Light to take on Sunderland.
