Trossard leads cruise as Arsenal plot for PSG visit

Mikel Arteta will have spent more arduous Easter Sundays hunting hidden chocolate eggs.

- Ben Bloom

Aside from brief concern for Bukayo Saka's raked achilles - an incident for which Leif Davis received his early marching orders - this was as undemanding an afternoon as the Arsenal manager could have envisaged on the path to the more important matter of a Champions League semi-final with Paris Saint-Germain.

Arteta will put his players through tougher training sessions ahead of that showdown than the exertions required of them at Portman Road.

The upshot of this 4-0 win was that Liverpool are not Premier League champions; not yet anyway. They will be - of that there is only mathematical but virtually no practical doubt.

For now, though, the title remains unclaimed for a little while longer.

Similarly, Ipswich are not yet relegated, but - as acknowledged by Kieran McKenna even before this defeat - their football will be played in the Championship next season.

An implausible five wins to see out the season would likely still send them down on goal difference.

If this match marked the reading of their last rites in the top flight, they appeared to hear them in a stupor.

By the time Davis was shown a straight red card for a tackle that possessed an abundant capacity to injure but no hope of winning the ball, his side were two goals down and staring at a task that appeared near impossible.

His dismissal, with almost an hour remaining, confirmed as much.