Arsenal winger Kieran Gibbs says his game has stepped up a level while on-loan at Norwich City.

"I have learnt how intense it is paying at a professional level," he revealed on arsenal.com. "The amount of games you have, you don't realise it until you are at that level that you have to look after yourself properly.

"Playing in the Reserves at Arsenal, there are one or two games per month so you have a lot of time to recover. Here you can often have just a couple of days so you have to know how to recover properly and effectively.

"You can also look at players like Dion Dublin and I cannot imagine how he is still going. His knowledge of the game is superb. He is always talking to us about how to approach the games and what to expect from the different environments we will play in. He has certainly hoped me a lot."