Arsenal 2 - Burnley 1: Sanchez and Chambers fire Gunners into fifth round

ARSENAL made it 15 FA Cup wins in a row by beating Burnley to move into the fifth round.

 

Alexis Sanchez fired Arsenal into the fifth round

 

Alexis Sanchez and Calum Chambers either side of Sam Vokes’ header was enough to put Arsene Wenger’s men back on course.

It wasn’t simple at the Emirates but Wenger’s side seem to have that cup steel about them these days and are enroute to win it a third time in a row.

Here they made nine changes, with the tricky tie on Tuesday against Southampton in mind, but that included the return of Francis Coquelin and Sanchez.

Both were important alongside a nervy, at times, times looking backline and their back up keeper.

Arsenal, as always, dominated with their subtle passing and neat footwork but they nearly had a wake-up call early on.

Andre Gray had a decent chance in the 11th minute after he beat Laurent Koscielny to a ball over over the top. 

 

He drove into the box but side-footed his shot softly towards David Ospina who parried it away.

Chambers opened the scoring with a beautiful curling effort with the outside of his right boot from the edge of the penalty area.

It sailed beyond England’s third choice keeper Tom Heaton into the corner of the net in the 19th minute after a typical Arsenal edge-of-the-box move tied together with subtle passes and flicks. 

Vokes levelled it up juts after half an hour, towering above Gabriel and Chambers to power beyond Ospina after a whipped cross from Tendayi Dawrikwa from the right hand side.

Sanchez, on his first start since injury, put Arsenal back ahead after a breakaway from the Gunners eight minutes into the second half as Oxlade-Chamberlain crossed into the box.

Theo Walcott missed a late one-on-one after being slid through by Oxlade-Chamberlain but in the end it didn't matter.

 

Arsenal: Ospina, Chambers, Gabriel, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin (Arteta 71), Elneny, Iwobi (Rosicky 71), Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis (Walcott 78), Giroud

Subs: Cech, Monreal, Bellerin, Campbell, 

Burnley: Heaton, Darikwa, Keane, Mee, Ward, Boyd (Kightly 80), Jones (Barton 67), Ulvestad, Arfield, Vokes (Hennings 75), Gray

Subs: Robnson, Duff, Taylor, Lowton,