LONDON -- If you want to understand what makes Arsenal by far the best out-of-possession team on the planet, you could start with the small details. It's four players lined up at the edge of the box for the corners that are Arsenal's greatest weapon. They're not there to work a short corner but to make sure that if Crystal Palace try to counter, it's snuffed out at source.

It's Gabriel Magalhaes blocking two more shots, the rock on whom Arsenal have built their backline, utterly immovable, no matter how hard Jean-Philippe Mateta tried to give him a shove. It's Myles Lewis-Skelly just letting his left arm float in the direction of Christantus Uche as Palace tried to charge up the right. You wouldn't often see a Premier League referee give a foul for it, but in bending the laws of the

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