Simon Thomas

They're cranking up the pressure on Liverpool.

We'll focus on the race for those last two top four finishes a little bit later.

Alan Pardew, Niall Quinn with us in the studio.

Alan, was that a performance of class and also character?

Well, Arsenal had to show the other attributes to what we know they have.

They dug in when Stoke put the pressure on second half, defended really strongly, were aggressive.

But the real plus for Arsenal today was them going forward.

They really looked sublime, their passing was fast, they moved Stoke around, they got in pockets.

Sanchez was brilliant, as usual.

And they've come into form at the right time and...

You would think if they had five games left, they would get in there, but they haven't.

They're now relying on West Ham, and West Ham need to do them a big favour against Liverpool because the home game Liverpool have looks favourable.

But they did the job today, and that's all you can do.

Do the job.

They did a great job.

Well, they had to wait 42 minutes now before they've made the breakthrough in the first half.

That movement that Alan talks about, did we see that at work in the first goal?

Yeah, absolutely.

If the movement's good for that goal, Alan, how good is the movement from Arsenal for the second for Mesut Ozil?

Well, I mean, you know, they had a great passing sequence before this throwing, and so they was in a good rhythm.