'It wasn't the most beautiful game, but it helps to win': Arsenal relieved to be climbing table

Arsenal's Martin Odegaard celebrates

One swallow does not a summer make, and in the case of Arsenal successive single-goal victories over the Premier League’s bottom two in no way indicate that the Gunners are in any shape or form ‘back’.

And do not expect at this stage any of the league’s bigger beasts to be losing sleep about the achievements of Mikel Arteta’s side in the space of a little over a week.