Arsenal v Fulham, Henderson, Southampton, Lage

It’s already shaping up to be a ridiculous season and this weekend offers the likelihood of more nonsense, like Arsenal going invincible.

Game to watch – Arsenal v Fulham
Two teams who have made pundit-mockingly excellent starts to the season meet in a captivating Saturday teatime London derby at the Emirates.

Arsenal are not just the only team to have won all of their first three matches this season, they are also the only team to have looked convincing throughout.

Fulham, though, may pose the toughest test yet for the Gunners. They have already claimed a deserved point against Liverpool and a first win of the season against Brentford to build on the two draws that began their season. Most excitingly of all, Aleksandar Mitrovic finally seems to have cracked Premier League football having scored twice against the Reds and again last week to secure that thrilling late win over the Bees.

There’s absolutely no way at all that Mitrovic’s goals, like those Arsenal wins, represent an unsustainable purple patch that is doomed to a reversion to the mean before long.

But it’s certainly possible that neither Mitrovic nor Arsenal revert any time soon. You’d certainly expect Arsenal in their current confident mood to continue their winning start to the season but any team that concedes twice to Leicester in their current… not confident mood could certainly find itself needing more than one goal to see off Mitrovic and co.

Player to watch – Dean Henderson
You do almost have to admire the arrogance of Henderson’s purported reason for insisting on a loan deal before pre-season began, reasoning that if Erik ten Hag saw him in training he’d insist on keeping him around to be David De Gea’s understudy.

The oddest part of that is that it is both outrageously cocksure yet strangely unambitious. Why settle for being De Gea’s understudy? Lord knows the man is fallible.

But his move has certainly got him playing time, and also given him plenty to do in goal for an enterprising and watchable Nottingham Forest side that nevertheless asks much of its goalkeeper.

Sunday’s visit of Tottenham is unlikely to offer Henderson a quiet weekend, but it’s also true that Spurs’ high-class attacking trio have not yet fully clicked this season. Harry Kane’s two goals have been close-range headers and Son Heung-min has yet to score at all. Son could even make way for Richarlison on current form.

The point is it looks very possible to frustrate Spurs at the…