Gabriel Martinelli scored the winning goal for Arsenal in their 1-0 victory against Leicester City, keeping them two points ahead of Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table at the end of the day. After the match, Brendan Rodgers hailed Arsenal as an ‘outstanding team’.

Although Arsenal had a first-half goal wrongly disallowed as VAR did it’s best to stop Arsenal, the Gunners dominated possession even as they struggled to hit their fluent best in the final third.

After the game, Leicester’s manager lamented their lack of aggression against Arsenal’s “outstanding” team.

“It was important firstly to stay in the game, Arsenal are an outstanding team,” Brendan Rodgers said.

“I feel that we weren’t aggressive enough in the first-half, they had a lot of the ball.

“Over the course of the game we didn’t concede many opportunities. I felt that we needed to be more aggressive and have more courage with the ball.

“We stay calm, we’ve been on a really difficult run of games. Our last five or six games have been real challenging games for us and we’ve shown enough in those to know that when we can play to our level we can win games.

“It’s very tight, they’re lots of good teams who are down there. We can only concentrate on ourselves and if we can do that and get our performance level to where it can be then we should be able to win the games we need.”

The win gives Arsenal the chance to capitalise on home advantage in their upcoming matches against Everton and Bournemouth.

Leicester remain 14th and face bottom-of-the-table Southampton in their next league match.