Arsenal beating Manchester City? In a Premier League game? Is nothing sacred any more? A 12-match losing streak is no more.
Manchester City beating Arsenal was one of the few constants one could rely on in this crazy world. Is nothing now sacred? Here are 16 Conclusions on a game whose football didn’t really merit them but whose potential significance absolutely does…1) Twelve games and 2380 days since Arsenal avoided defeat in a Premier League game against Manchester City. Sixteen games and 2848 days since Arsenal beat Manchester City in a Premier League game.
What he gave Arsenal was an injection of pace and excitement, a player willing to run in behind and stretch City’s previously unflustered and untroubled backline. Gabriel Jesus and Eddie Nketiah worked diligently but never truly convincingly. A draw always looked the likeliest result right up until it didn’t, but throughout the second half Martinelli always looked the likeliest man to make something happen.
The second half was insipid beyond belief and no doubt contributed to the gradual and decisive growth in Arsenal’s belief and confidence that they could not only get something from the game but all three points. Even at 1-0 down, City offered almost nothing. After a first quarter of an hour that hinted at normal service they threw almost no punches at a team they have used as a punchbag for the last six years.8) Erling Haaland, xG 0.00. I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again.
He’s 27. He cannot be playing this minuscule amount of football and relying on international football to keep his minutes up. And now City don’t even have the Carabao to keep him gainfully employed.11) There wasn’t much bad news knocking around for Arsenal today. We suspect they can even live with not quite managing to find a second goal to lift them above their neighbours and into top spot.
What is beyond doubt here, though, is that, having collected that first yellow card, it was astonishing to see Kovacic avoid a second booking for clattering Declan Rice minutes later – VAR of course unable to intervene on this occasion BECAUSE RULES – and more astonishing still to see him emerge for the second half despite presumably being on ice thinner than a gnat’s cock hair. For 22 minutes Pep Guardiola played chicken with Michael Oliver before eventually removing Kovacic from the scene.
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