Timber seals cagey win for Arsenal
Arsenal restored its five-point lead at the top of the Premier League with a 2-1 win over 10-man Chelsea.
Jurrien Timber's 66th-minute header proved decisive at Emirates Stadium, where all three goals came from corners.
Arsenal went ahead in the 21st minute, with Gabriel Magalhaes meeting Bukayo Saka's corner to set up his fellow centre-back William Saliba, whose header found the net via a deflection from Mamadou Sarr.
Chelsea caused Arsenal problems of its own from corners, though, and after David Raya had made a superb save to deny Jorrel Hato – who was been held by Declan Rice – Piero Hincapie scored an own goal to restore parity on the stroke of half-time.
Joao Pedro saw a penalty appeal turned down and then had a header saved on the line, but Arsenal's set-piece proficiency came to the fore again when Rice dropped an inch-perfect delivery onto Timber, with Robert Sanchez in no man's land.
Pedro Neto was booked for dissent in the aftermath of Timber's goal, and he saw red less than three minutes later when he scythed down Gabriel Martinelli.
Raya had to come up big late on, parrying wide Alejandro Garnacho's cross, and though Liam Delap had the ball in the net deep in stoppage time, Joao Pedro had drifted offside in the build-up.
