By the end, there was the unmistakable feeling that all Arsenal were doing was delaying the inevitable. Chelsea could have wrapped everything up by Wednesday if they had won here and followed it up with the same against Leicester City. Now the earliest they can do it as at home to Crystal Palace next Sunday and, if not then, the following week against Liverpool. The only question is when the coronation happens but the victory parade is already pencilled in for 25 May and there was nothing Arsenal could do to make that feel even the slightest bit premature. Instead, we had the result that everybody could probably have predicted when they saw José Mourinho had started with a team...
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