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Careless Arsenal just about extended the title race another four days, but it’s all over bar the sausage rolls and vol-au-vents.

With Liverpool players, watching on TV at their Kirkby training ground, ready to break open the bubbly, the Gunners kept the party streamers on standby.

So it was a major surprise, not least to the latecomers who missed it, that the Gunners went in front inside three minutes from a familiar provenance - the good old set piece.

Apart from Declan Rice bending it like Beckham against Real Madrid, Arsenal’s favourite source of goals had gone quiet of late.

But when Martin Odegaard swung a free-kick to the near post, Jakub Kiwior was hopelessly unmarked to plant a firm header beyond Dean Henderson.

Number crunchers make that 66 goals in four seasons from dead-ball restarts since set piece coach Nicolas Jover joined the Arsenal payroll(

Since Granit Xhaka’s monumental strop in the dying days of Unai Emery’s unlamented reign at the Emirates, an aggregate score of 20-4 in the Gunners’ favour in the last six meetings read like a ransom note.

But moments after Rice was a whisker away from making it 2-0 with a rasping 20-yard shot, Palace’s spirited response yielded an equaliser after 27 minutes.

Oliver Glazer’s progressive side were undone again three minutes before the break, Leandro Trossard taking Jurrien Timber’s crisp pass in his stride and threading his fourth goal in as many games just inside Henderson’s left-hand post

But the indefatigable Eagles came back for more after the break, Raya expertly parrying Marc Guehi’s effort before substitute Ismaila Sarr somehow missed an open goal from three yards by failing to connect properly with a simple header.

At the other end Gabriel Martinelli’s ‘goal’ was correctly ruled out, after an interminable VAR seance, before William Saliba’s slapdash pass presented Mateta, who had only been on the pitch two minutes, with a gift 30 yards out
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