Arsenal 2-0 FC Porto

My beloved Arsenal further proved their resurgence tonight in a clinical 2-0 victory over FC Porto. While Porto's fortunes have waned since the glory days of Jose Mourinho's reign, they are just the type of opponent that can be dangerously underestimated and thus wreak havoc upon a European campaign. With last season's loss in Paris still haunting the team, a confident start in the Champions League was an absolutely necessity. Fortunately, the Gunners are starting to show their quality:

Arsene Wenger celebrates 10 seasons at the north London club on Thursday - and the Gunners boss firmly believes he has never had more potential within his squad, despite what had been a sluggish start to the new campaign.

There was certainly plenty of evidence of what a free-flowing Arsenal side are capable of, having finally made superior possession count when captain Thierry Henry headed the hosts in front with his 50th European goal eight minutes before half-time.

Alexander Hleb also got on the scoresheet at the start of the second half as the Gunners made it two wins from two in Group G, where another maximum-points haul from the trip to CSKA Moscow in a fortnight's time would all-but mathematically secure a place in the second phase for last season's European Cup finalists.

Henry is a goal machine, of course, but it great to see him scoring with his head, and being a creative playmaker as wel. It is great to see Hleb put one in the net, he deserves more credit than he gets, and it also seems Toure and Van Persie could easily have added another pair.

This game really illustrates just how many diverse tools Arsenal can attack with when they play their best, particularly when you add names like Ljungberg, Rosicky, Fabregas and Baptista to those already mentioned. It is still a young team, with several additions that have surely not yet fully settled into the side. It is frightening to think of their potential if they can further improve on the form they've shown over the past several games.