Leicester City v Arsenal player ratings: Luke Thomas 5, Youri Tielemans 7; Nicolas Pepe 9, Alexandre Lacazette 9

Gunners seal superb 3-1 win against injury-ravaged Foxes

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Arsenal revived their hopes of playing in European competition next season after beating Leicester City 3-1 in an entertaining Premier League clash at the King Power Stadium.

Goals from David Luiz, Alexandre Lacazette and Nicolas Pepe did the damage after Youri Tielemans had put the home side into an early lead.

The Foxes produced another poor performance after Thursday's 2-0 home defeat by Slavia Prague sent them crashing out of the Europa League, where Arsenal progressed into the last 16 with a 4-3 aggregate win over Benfica.

Leicester took a sixth-minute lead on Sunday as Youri Tielemans robbed Willian and Granit Xhaka of the ball on the right flank and was given all the time in the world to cut inside the area before firing a low shot into the far corner.

The Gunners equalised in the 39th when Luiz headed a Willian cross into the bottom right corner and Lacazette turned the tide in first-half stoppage time as he drilled in a penalty after a VAR check showed Wilfred Ndidi had clearly handled the ball in the area.

Poor defending cost Leicester again in the 52nd minute as they allowed the visitors to break through the middle before Willian slipped the ball to Pepe and the Ivorian forward tucked it into an empty net from two metres.