The beaming smile said it all. Emile Smith Rowe had just cracked a brilliant strike into the bottom corner and with that decisive swing of his right boot a whole load of frustration seemed to vanish.
Frustration at the groin injury that required surgery and prevented him building on his best season in an Arsenal shirt. Frustration he was unable to gain more senior England opportunities.
Frustration that when he finally returned to full fitness, Mikel Arteta's Gunners team was a winning one and the manager was understandably reluctant to alter it.