© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Nick Potts/PA Cup finals have offered the only shafts of joy for Arsenal since 2006 and all three of their wins in the 2010s – the comeback against Hull, the evisceration of Villa, the knife-edge affair in which they pipped Chelsea – have brought memories that stand alone.
But none are stitched into a story of gathering momentum; Arsenal missed their opportunities to build on each one and it is among the reasons an overview of the past 10 years presents itself as a litany of false dawns.Sánchez arrived following the Hull final in 2014 and there was frustration that, had Arsenal not taken half a season to get going after what Per Mertesacker later described as a “post-World Cup trauma”, they might.
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