Merino keeps it Real for Gunners as Blues fold

But after just four wins in 13 league games, the sands are shifting beneath Enzo Maresca and watching Chelsea has become an intractable chore.
For the Gunners, all roads lead to Real Madrid after the international break, and Arsenal's synonymous scoreline keeps the engine ticking over ahead of their Champions League quarter-final.
For Maresca, too many roads are going up dead ends. He was given a mixed reception by travelling fans on the final whistle and the hanging judges are out in force on social media. Don't mention the chore?
Champions League football is coming to west London next season, but at this rate it will be a few stops down the District Line from Fulham Broadway.
Once a red-letter day in the title race, this was a dance of the also-rans, two gilded rivals squabbling over the left-over sausage rolls, when the bourgeoisie at Wembley were tucking into caviar and lobster thermidor.
Arsenal deserved to win because they were markedly superior in the first half, and the Blues were restricted to only one meaningful shot on target in 90 minutes.
Chelsea's toothless scuffling was alarming and nowhere nea...