Arsenal must be 'on it' against remarkable Leicester, Aaron Ramsey says

Arsenal will need to be "right on it" this weekend to slow Leicester's surge towards the Premier League title, Aaron Ramsey says.

Claudio Ranieri's side cleared another hurdle on Saturday as they won 3-1 at Manchester City to open a five-point lead at the top ahead of a Super Sunday trip to north London.

Leicester's form has forced Sky Sports' pundits to reassess the title credentials of a side that were 5,000-1 outsiders at the start of the season, but Arsenal can cut the lead to two points if they follow up Sunday's win at Bournemouth with victory at the Emirates.

Goals from Mesut Ozil and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain ended a run of four league games without a win, and Ramsey said: "It was important to bounce back from the few important results we have had of late. We needed to do that, especially with the result that Leicester got.

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"It was important to stay within touching distance of them. It is going to be an interesting game next week now. What they have done this season is quite remarkable. We have got to be right on it to get three points."

Laurent Koscielny, captain at Bournemouth with Mikel Arteta and Per Mertesacker left out, said: "We didn't play well during January and we didn't win a lot of points.

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"We needed to start a good run with this game and we stayed strong at the back, and scored two goals with our first two opportunities. We had three games without scoring so it was important for our players."

Arsenal are one of just two teams to beat Leicester in the league this season having won 5-2 at the King Power Stadium in September.