Arsenal found themselves on the right side of a nervy, scrappy and deeply underwhelming win at home to Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon. In a meeting between two sides without a fit striker between them and who were also both missing their best player,

There were times when this felt like more of a fouling contest than a football match. A day for petty squabbling rather than pretty passing. In the end, then, it was probably fair that the team who played more football – just about – claimed all three points.