Five Key Takeaways after Arsenal beat Burnley to move seven points clear 

Here's Gooner Fanzine print columnist Charlie Ashmore with his must-read take on Arsenal's win at Turf Moor 

1 - 2-0 is much less stressful watch than 1-0!

As the game wore on and Burnley started to exert some pressure, I felt strangely relaxed.  I have got too used to stressing through the last period of a match in which we are in control and leading but only by the one goal such that a single mistake could cost us points. 

This time the stress just wasn't there. 

It is interesting looking back on games afterwards or talking to fans of other clubs who have watched these matches.  They will say things like "you were never under threat" or "xx never looked like scoring".  and in the cold light of day they are right and you can see that looking back at a game. 

But at the time it just doesn't feel like that so my key takeaway from this game for the team is never be satisfied with just the one goal and let's try and make it all a bit more comfortable.

2 - A perfect performance?

At this stage of the season the priority is getting through matches with the minimum fuss - no cards to haunt you later in the season, no injuries and three points all while expending as little energy as possible to ensure reserves are available later in the season.   

OK so we picked up a single yellow card - deserved I think for Gabriel's late mistimed challenge on the edge of the box - but in all other respects the boxes were ticked. 

The more games we can have like this the better, and the implications for the final stage  of the season when you need a full squad, fit enough to take it to the last game if needed are huge.  

3 - Half price excellence

The danger of consistent excellence is that is all too easily overlooked or shrugged off as if to say it's just normal. Well, it may be normal but this performance typified what Declan Rice is all about. 

He has this uncanny ability to be wherever he is needed on the pitch at any given moment.  At one moment making a crucial intervention at the back, and the next appearing in the opposition box. 

Look at that second goal again - it comes from a Burnley throw in which passes over Rice, doing his marking job, before being cleared.  In the blink of an eye the play progresses to the other end. 

Throughout the passage of play Rice is making his way upfield, arriving in the box at exactly the right moment for Trossard to pick him out.  Look again at the passage of play immediately before Gabriel's foul at the death. 

Rice takes a corner.  Burnley bring it away and counter-attack.  The ball is played towards the box and who is there in the last line of defence heading the ball away?  Rice, of course.

His set piece delivery is remarkably consistent and everything he does he does with simplicity. 

But that simplicity belies its underlying excellence. 

4 - A word for Gyokeres

That half of football from the big man was everything you want to see from a striker.

Unquestionably his best half in an Arsenal shirt, he was brilliant in everything he did.

His hold up play, the way he linked with other players, his occupation of defenders and yes even his flashes of skill were top notch and I just love seeing a proper striker scoring from a yard out - easy yes, but it requires know how and instinct to be in the right place at the right time. 

This bodes really well and let's hope there was nothing serious behind his non-appearance for the second half.

5 - The defence

Another game without a shot on target which makes four in a row in the PL. 

Yes, I know Palace were credited with one but have you seen it?  It's a moment when David Raya and Eddie Nketiah go for the same ball and Raya plucks it off Eddie's head.  If that's a shot on target, well...... 

Anyway it's goals that matter of course and that's seven on the bounce with a clean sheet (four in the League). If you want a moment which encapsulates why we are so good defensively, watch again that passage of play that leads to Rice heading the ball away shortly before Gabi concedes the last second free kick. 

It starts with a corner for us.  We have nine players in the section of the pitch from the edge of their box to the goal line. 

They break and a few seconds later the ball is played towards the edge of our box.  By that point we already have seven players between the ball and the goal line with two more not far behind.  That's at 2-0 up in the 96th minute. 

That's a team that takes its defensive responsibilities seriously. 

That's a team that does not want to concede a chance let alone a goal. 

That's a team that has glory in its sights.