Late, late strikes give Gunners vital win against Leicester - after City drop points at Newcastle

Arsenal 4 (Martinelli 20, Trossard 45+1, 90+4, Havertz 90+9)

Leicester City 2 (Justin 47, 63)

Two goals in second-half stoppage time saw Arsenal beat Leicester City 4-2 - after the Foxes had fought back from two goals down at half-time.

Two second half goals from James Justin - the second a goal of the season contender - appeared to have earned a point for the east Midlanders - cancelling out first-half strikes from Gabriel Martinelli and Trossard.

But the Belgian turned home a corner four minutes into stoppage time, sending the Emirates crowd wild, before Kai Havertz stabbed home a fourth.

Justin saw an effort from just inside the box blocked early on - a play which was to prove Leicester's only attempt of the half, as thereafter it was all Arsenal in the first period.

The Gunners' first decent chance of the game came on 15 minutes when Bukayo Saka drew a save from Mads Hermansen from just outside the penalty area.

But Gabriel Martinelli should have opened the scoring a minute later. Played in down the left he had a free shot on goal but leant back on the ball and fired well over.

However Martinelli atoned for his miss soon after, sweeping home a right-wing cross from Jurien Timber.

Arsenal pushed for a second. The Foxes gave the ball away in the middle of the park and again a chance fell to Martinelli, who this time forced a fine save from Hermansen.

Arsenal were having joy down the right and fashioned yet another chance to make it 2-0 on 37 minutes.

Trossard got free on the overlap and hung up a delightful cross, Havertz rose to meet the ball and headed back across goal. Hermansen was rooted but the ball dropped just wide.

But Arsenal did finally get the second goal their first-half dominance deserved.

The goal was almost a carbon copy of the first - but from the other side of the pitch.

Martinelli found space down the left and pulled the ball across the box, where Trossard was on hand to poke the ball into the bottom-right corner to give the Gunners breathing space at he break.

But Leicester were back in it almost immediately after the restart. A free-kick from the left-hand side by Facundo Buonanotte was headed on by Justin and took a crucial deflection off the head of Havertz which sent it past David Raya.

Hermansen then produced a superb double save following a corner from Saka. First he kept out Gabriel's header then palmed away a second headed effort - this time from Riccardo Calafiori, before the third attempt was smashed over by Timber.

The game opened up as Leicester pushed for an equaliser. Trossard saw an effort graze the outside of the right-hand post for Arsenal after good work by Saka down the right.

Arsenal were looking slightly more vulnerable at the back than of late and Buonanotte, attacking down the Leicester left, was allowed a shot which flew wide of the near post - before forcing a save from Raya after a shot from inside the box soon after.

And the Foxes' equaliser came just moments later. Wilfred Ndidi's cross from the left was met perfectly on the volley by Justin and the ball flew past Raya via his right-hand post to send the travelling fans crazy.

Back came Arsenal. Saka's shot from the right was blocked but fell to Havertz just three yards out. Havertz spun and volleyed the ball goalwards, but somehow Hermansen threw out an arm and clawed the ball away.

Calafiori was fortunate to escape a second yellow card soon after for a trip - before Hermansen saved again, this time from Trossard.

Then Oliver Skipp was lucky to escape a second yellow, bringing down Saka just outside the box.

Etan Nwaneri then drew another fine save from Hermansen just seconds after coming on, before tipping over a header from Calafiori.

And just as it appeared time had run out, it was Arsenal who were to benefit in stoppage time this week - with two late, late strikes to take the Gunners level on points with Manchester City.

Teams:

Arsenal: Raya, Saliba, Partey (Nwaneri 85), Gabriel, Saka, Martinelli (Sterling 74), Timber, Trossard (Jesus 90+7), Havertz, Calafiori, Rice

Leicester: Hermansen, Justin, Faes, Okoli (Fatawu 90+8), Ndidi (Edouard 90+8), Winks, Vardy, Mavididi (De Cordonva-Reid 90), Kristiansen, Skipp El Khannouss 90), Buonanotte (Ayew 85)

Referee: Barrott