Arsenal 4-1 Leeds: Player ratings as Gunners restore eight-point lead at Premier League summit
Arsenal restored their eight-point lead at the Premier League summit with an ultimately commanding 4-1 victory at home to Leeds United on Saturday afternoon. The Gunners will have watched Manchester City close the gap with a second-half dismantling of Liverpool earlier in the day - the match was shown on the Emirates' big screens - and began their game in a fog of hesitancy. Although, their visitors warrant some credit for that. Javi Gracia had lost all three of his previous meetings with Arsenal by an aggregate score of 0-6 but arrived in north London with a plan to frustrate. Jack Harrison on the left and Rasmus Kristensen, a right-back shunted into midfield, were tasked with plugging the gaps between Leeds' full-backs and centre-backs, the half-spaces from which Arsenal have wreaked so much havoc this season. With Arsenal's regular avenues to goal protected by a military blockade of neon camouflage kits, the hosts had to rely upon a returning weapon of their own. On his ...