LONDON -- The answer to Arsenal's goal-scoring problems was there all along. Mikel Arteta sought to explain the issue this week by pointing to internal data suggesting they carried more of a threat than recent results would suggest, and Saturday's 5-0 win over Crystal Palace highlighted one key aspect: corners.
Arsenal took control of this encounter through two Gabriel Magalhães headers (the second later credited as a Dean Henderson own goal) which underlined the home side's potency from dead-ball situations.
It provided an invaluable route back into some sort of form here, albeit tempered by Palace's passivity -- only Eberechi Eze emerged with any credit from a collectively insipid performance that places manager Roy Hodgson's future under further scrutiny.