For Arsenal, it had to be from a corner and, after the week that had gone, it had to be Leandro Trossard who made the difference. The fallout from last Sunday’s explosive 2-2 draw at Manchester City had raged, a prominent talking point being the moment that shaped Arsenal’s darkly impressive rearguard action, namely Trossard’s second yellow card, for kicking the ball away. Here, he rescued his team.
It looked like being a story of Arsenal throwing away two points from a winning position for the third time this season. That, and a sensational second-half goalscoring cameo by the Leicester right-back, James Justin, plus the defiance of the goalkeeper, Mads Hermansen. Having made it 2-1 with a deflected header, Justin produced a volley of irresistible sweetness to equalise. Hermansen made 13 saves – the most in a Premier League game since David de Gea here against Arsenal in 2017.
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