Perfect week for Arsene Wenger as Arsenal lay down title marker

Arsenal 2 Manchester City 1: If Arsene Wenger were to honestly describe his perfect week it would almost certainly include Jose Mourinho being sacked and his own Arsenal side producing a performance of consummate maturity to convincingly beat a title rival in a huge game.

Well, Arsene, it really doesn’t get any better than this.

True, Manchester City staged a most unexpected late rally, but otherwise the visitors were largely woeful as they produced a performance that will do very little little to dispel the notion that Pep Guardiola could do rather better than Manuel Pellegrini with this lavishly-assembled side.