Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno believes a battling 1-0 loss to Manchester City is evidence of their improvement.
The Gunners have enjoyed a good start to the season, but it has now been six years since the club beat a "top six" team away from home in the Premier League.
They lost 1-0 to CIty at the weekend, but were in the contest throughout, and could have gotten a point.
Leno feels that is a sign they are going in the right direction.
"On one hand we're disappointed, but on the other we played a good game," said Leno to reporters.
"We competed against City and at the end you can see that the gap was very small.
"I think when you compare the first game after the lockdown how we played that night when we lost 3-0 to City with how we played on Saturday there's a big, big difference.
"We are going the right way and next week we have to be confident to play like this again.
"I think we missed a little bit of the lucky punch.
"We tried set-pieces and crosses but we couldn't finish the action. That was our main problem in the end because I think we were better in the second half and controlled the game."
