With a 2-0 win over Manchester United, which coach Nicolas Jover achieved from set pieces, Arsenal reduced the gap to league leaders Liverpool to seven points.

Despite losing talented centre-back Gabriel to injury before the game, the Gunners, who have earned a reputation for their strength from corners, capitalized on that advantage with Jurrien Timber and William Saliba on the scoresheet.

Manchester United did well to frustrate Arsenal in the first half, limiting Mikel Arteta’s side to a couple of half-chances. But after the break the home team improved and emerged as deserved winners.

The manager was delighted with his team’s style of play and the way they broke the shackles after a few tactical changes at half-time.

Here’s what he had to say when taking on the BBC Match of the Day questions…

About increasing performance in the second half…

Yes, we definitely have. It’s a special day. There are 500 games in this incredible stadium. We wanted to celebrate against a team that obviously has a long history. Unbelievable, the way we reacted, the way we played the second half, the goals we scored, two set pieces, we could have scored a lot more goals from the game, we kept a clean sheet. I’m very happy because we lost two strong players in defense, Jakub came in, Alex came in and the team really reacted. Really happy with everything.

About what he said at halftime…

Defensively we had to adjust one or two things from what we were doing, especially we had to do the simple things better, we gave away too many easy balls, we found advantages and gave the ball away, so we got that never done We dominate and attack the spaces and can unite to counter them. We did a lot better in the second half, the game became a little more open, there were a lot of balls in the final third and we looked really dangerous.

On limiting United to minimal chances…

Yes, at the end, after the throw-in, we gave them the free kick that they could have scored and then you need someone like David to save the ball. I think it was 2-0 at the time, but I was very happy. It’s a challenge to play in this stadium with this energy, something incredible.

On the question of whether this was Arsenal’s most effective game from a set piece perspective…

Well one of the best, we could have scored more goals but that happened a few times this season. I’m very happy with that, the team has to be able to score points in many different situations and phases. Today we could have scored points from open play, short counterattacks and a stable build-up of play, but in the end we managed to do that with two set pieces, great.

Won three league games in a row for the first time this season…

We have to do our business, keep playing at the level we are playing at and keep winning games. We’ll see what the rest does.

When he became the first Arsenal manager to win four consecutive games against Manchester United…

Ok, thank you very much!