Cech - This victory is 'significant'

Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech has praised his side’s ‘significant’ victory over Leicester City.

It took the Gunners until the dying embers of the game to secure the three points, with substitute Danny Welbeck, returning from injury for his first game of the season, scoring the winner in the 95th minute.

The match winning goal was also Mesut Ozil’s 17th Premier League assist of the season.

Perhaps the most significant moment of the 2-1 victory over the Foxes was Danny Simpson’s second half sending off, after he brought down Olivier Giroud, picking up two yellows in just five minutes of action.

Cech, speaking to BBC Sport after the victory, claimed that due to the Gunners’ opponents going down to 10 men, gaining the three points was ‘tricky’.

Lest we forget this moment of the game. Petr Cech sending Jamie Vardy back to Fleetwood Town. https://t.co/nQyzbksJWg #AFCvLCFC

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We had to concentrate in the final stages because any counter-attack was becoming more and more dangerous as we searched for the winner.

It was tricky. What I like about our win is that it is always tricky when opponents are down to 10 men.

They have good organisation and are fighting for their lives. We managed to break them down and create chances.

We kept missing chances but kept composure and kept coming. We had so many half-chances where we could have scored more.

If you have a cushion of five or eight points, it is a big difference.

We overturned eight points to two – it is significant difference.