Arsenal returned to winning ways in emphatic style with a 4-1 victory over Fulham on New Year's Day
Looking to bounce back from a 5-1 drubbing at Liverpool, Arsenal punished Fulham for two missed Ryan Sessegnon chances when Granit Xhaka broke the deadlock (25) at the Emirates
Alexandre Lacazette then scored Arsenal's second (55) after the break following a fine team move, and though substitute Aboubakar Kamara gave the visitors hope (69), it was only short-lived
Aaron Ramsey (79) restored the two-goal advantage before Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (83) added a somewhat flattering fourth
 Arsenal move two points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, while Fulham remain 19th in the Premier League table
It was a tale of three chances in the opening 25 minutes, with Sessegnon firing wide of the far post when one-on-one with Bernd Leno before the 18-year-old then missed a cross completely six yards out
Xhaka duly punished Sessegnon for those missed opportunities, with the Swiss midfielder controlling Alex Iwobi's cross before stabbing an attempt beyond Sergio Rico for his first Premier League goal from inside the box
Arsenal could have extended their lead further before the break, but a valiant block from Tim Ream denied Xhaka, while Rico kept out Lacazette's low drive after Aubameyang headed wide
Lacazette doubled Arsenal's lead 10 minutes into the second half, adding the finishing touch to a quality move which saw Iwobi, Sead Kolasinac and Aubameyang link-up brilliantly down the left
Fulham got back into it thanks to Kamara -  - with the forward coming off the bench to tap in Sessegnon's cross
Ramsey then came on for Lacazette, and though the tactical switch brought about jeers from the home fans, it was the Wales midfielder who added Arsenal's third from inside the area before Aubameyang saw his heavily-deflected effort sail past Rico to seal the three points
 "We worked well
 We wanted to win like this
 It's a good result, we need to take confidence here with a match like today
 We struggled in some moments, but the team continued to push and create chances
 We can be happy today
"It's normal at 2-1, there can be some doubt, but we continued to show confidence
 The team continued to work and kept to their plan
"We can score with different players - it's good
 We can continue creating our identity with different players and different systems
""If you analyse you think, okay, the first half-an-hour before their first goal, we created two great chances
 The Arsenal crowd was, 'Oh! What happened?' and started to boo their players
"But they scored with their first chance because we made mistakes in the middle of the box
 In the second half, other little mistakes
"After we reopened the match and had two chances to draw
 But when you make mistakes against a big team, and then also we were a little tired, we don't have the quality of Arsenal
 Four goals, but I do not think our performance was bad
 We could have drawn
"No goals for Iwobi, but he was a constant menace along with Kolasinac down the left, which is where Arsenal found most of their openings against Fulham
The Nigeria international assisted the first for Xhaka and was key in the build-up to Arsenal's second
 He does not always receive the plaudits with Aubameyang and Lacazette for company up front, but Iwobi deserves recognition for his telling New Year's Day contribution
Arsenal are in FA Cup action at Blackpool on Saturday before heading to West Ham the following weekend, live on  on January 12
 Fulham host Oldham in the FA Cup on Sunday before heading to Burnley next Saturday
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