Long-time Premier League leaders Arsenal passed the first real test of their title credentials after briefly being overtaken ...

Viktor Gyökeres' first-half penalty -- his first goal in six games -- was enough to restore the Gunners' two-point cushion but in truth they had to do little else for the 1-0 victory.

Missing Iliman Ndiaye and Idrissa Gueye, at the Africa Cup of Nations, the greater loss was that of the injured Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, their best player of the last two months.