London – Arsenal VS Manchester City was always going to be a hinge of the season for the two teams and it turned out to be a brilliant game in northern London on Sunday.
With a 5-1 victory, Mikel Arteta Arsenal made a huge statement that they are there to stay in the title race. The man of Pep Guardiola collapsed.
The atmosphere was crackling, the teenagers marked and dragged the superstars of Man City and the supporters of Arsenal revealed the volume while City withered in the Caudron and the race for the title of Arsenal won a new energy.
After taking an early advance by Martin Odegaard, Arsenal sat down and Erling Haaland did 1-1 at the start of the second half. This led to an incredible response from Arsenal while Thomas Parte’s shooting died and Myles Lewis-Skelly scored six minutes later to do it 3-1. Kai Havertz marked a beauty to make four and Ethan Nwaneri marked a beauty to make it 5-1 while Guardiola looked amazed.
Here is an overview of what we have learned from another epic arsenal confrontation against Manchester City.
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Mikel Arteta’s arsenal now has five undefeated games against Manchester City and they had this match there for the first minute. Arsenal removed the foot of the gas on each side of half-time to let the city go back there, but when they needed to get started on the city of Bulldozer. Declan Rice’s Arsenal Trio, Thomas Partey and Martin Odegaard ran all over Mateo Kovacic and Bernardo Silva in the midfield. We know that City misses Rodri badly, but even he would have had trouble helping City to stem the tide of the energetic trio of Arsenal. Add the full back Lewis-Skelly and the wooden middle and the overload of the midfield and the sting in the challenges and it was a horrible physical game for the city. Arsenal has done their type of game and has done to City what the city has often done to them in the last decade. Arsenal simply mastered and crossed the city.
The trembling city cannot manage the heat
Manchester City cannot have real arguments with their result. Yes, they had more possession and went back to the game at the start of the second half, but it was more than Arsenal lets them go back. Whenever Arsenal showed the heat on the defense and the midfielder of the city, they collapse. Ederson missed badly and Ortega gave the ball several times when he was taking too many risks. Kovacic was restless. John Stones and Manuel Akanji were full of mistakes and dragged everywhere. Just like so many defeats this season, including recently at PSG, City has withered in the heat of the great moment. Their mini-revival gave them a chance to finish in the first four this season, but when they came up against PSG and Arsenal in recent weeks their previous levels. Against the two best teams they have faced in recent months, they have collapsed badly.
The title race is indeed lit
Arsenal is six points behind Liverpool, who has a match in hand, but the manner of this victory has proven that they will hang out in the title race until the bitter end. Arsenal is undefeated in their last 14 Premier League games, the first time they have done it under Arteta, and remain the only undefeated team in the Home League this season. The intensity and the hunger they showed, especially in a big moment after Haaland was 1-1, proved that they were ready to face the reverse by the end of May. After their semi-final of the League Cup in Newcastle on Wednesday, Arsenal has the luxury of a warm-up trip to recover and prepare for a large final push in the Premier League and in the Champions League. With Bukayo Saka who should also be back later at the beginning of March, Arsenal will have their main threat of in shape and ready to ride. We are all ready to make a right piece between Liverpool and Arsenal for the title. Arsenal has shown that they will be there so Liverpool weakens.
