This was the kind of no-frills away win title winners need to specialise in ticking off. If Arsenal are rejoicing in May they will remember higher-octane afternoons, but no three points can be sniffed at: they were comfortably superior to a pallid Leicester who hardly hinted at a response to Gabriel Martinelli’s winner.
Martinelli took his goal superbly less than a minute into the second half and it meant Mikel Arteta could, if he wished, save his breath about the earlier chalking-off of a strike by Leandro Trossard. At that point Arsenal might have feared a hard luck story and Arteta, as animated as ever, raged at the perceived injustice. But his players were cool and composed, while rarely at full throttle, in recording their second away win in a week. With Everton next up at the Emirates on Wednesday, they are well en route to rendering their home defeat to Manchester City an irrelevance.
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