Premier League result: Gabriel, Odegaard and Martinelli send Arsenal five points clear with dominant win against Fulham at Craven Cottage

Soloman jinks in from the left and swerves a shot well wide of target after doing well to create space for the effort.

It's five in his last five PL matches for the Brazilian.

It's been all Arsenal in this opening half an hour. They've scored two very simple goals which will be disappointing from Silva's point of view.

Can the Cottagers find some sort of spark or will the visitors be out of sight before half time?

Martinelli heads home from close range after a lovely run and cross from Trossard on the left.

Saliba lashes a thumping 25-yard effort just over the crossbar.

Arsenal are hoping to claim a fifth consecutive league win while Fulham have lost their last four home league meetings against the Gunners.

Gabriel shows the most desire to get on the end of a left-wing corner and nod the Gunners ahead.

The hosts are staying focused to repel a succession of Arsenal corners, but they just can't get out at the moment.

The time taken to draw the lines for offside takes far too long. A good two minutes were wasted then with players stood around and fans in the dark.

Eventually the goal is ruled out but surely it wasn't that close that it needed that much time to deliberate over it.

Martinelli plays a slick one-two on the left and forces a fine save out of Leno, only for the hapless Antonee Robinson to knock the rebound into his own net as he tried to get back on the line.

The Fulham hitman has gone eight appearances without netting in all competitions and hasn't notched at Craven Cottage since 20 October.

The Cottagers earn a free kick inside the Arsenal half and look to test that Gunners rearguard that has been shaky at set pieces recently.

The visitors defend it well and the attack eventually fizzles out when Mitrovic pushes his marker in the back and then fires over.

A lovely move from right to left ends with Xhaka reaching an over-hit pass from Martinelli on the stretch, but his attempted cross from the byline is too close to Leno.

Fulham have lost all three games across all competitions when Joao Palhinha (suspended today) has been absent, shipping nine goals along the way.

The visitors have had the majority of the ball in a low-key opening.

Only Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United have clocked up more points than Fulham's tally of 20 since the Premier League got back underway after the World Cup.