Arsenal’s impressive Manchester City at Emirates Stadium with a 5-1 victory.
Mikel Arteta’s team took a 1-0 advantage in the middle after Martin Odegaard opened the scoring, the game exploded in life at the time in the middle.
Erling Haaland matched a giant head but, only 38 seconds after restarting, the arsenal again in front of a deviant strike discovered the bottom of the network. And six minutes later, Myles Lewis-Skelly scored his first purpose in the Premier League to succeed in 3-1.
Kai Hvertz, who lost a possibility of previous gold in the game, added a room and replacing it, Ethan Nwaneri finished the score with good appearance in time.
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Arsenal Five Manchester City 1: The moment of Lewis-Skelly, Nwaneri’s magic and so many errors in the city
Arsenal took a genuine impulse with today’s victory, and will want all Wednesday night.
They have a 2-0 deficit to resort to the semifinals of the Carabao Cup opposed to Newcastle, and have to do it far from their home. Make sure you register for us in athletics for that because we are going to live it.
As for Manchester City, they have a full week to recharge before a draw in a faster FA. Pep Guardiola’s appearance will face the third point Leyton Orient on Saturday afternoon.
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It became a cathartic on the early night for arsenal as the shouts of “Olé!” It sounded around the Emirates with its advance of 3 intact goals. And then they added another.
In addition to the needles surrounding Haaland, Gabriel and Arteta, it is the first time that Arsenal scored five opposites to City since February 2003, and a fourth champion fits the highest category.
Today’s result expects City to win a fifth consecutive title, but maintains the possibilities of its first arsenal since 2003-2004.
The confidence that this victory will give them underestimate and, with two games opposed to the groups in the last six to come in their next two champions games in 16 games.
All they can do is what City has done to them in past seasons, in contact with leaders.
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After his recommendation of “humble stay” to the players of the full-time arsenal in this 2-2 draw in September, Haaland brought the weight of the pride of space enthusiasts on Sunday.
Given what happened the game, in terms of celebrations and songs, the Norwegian point was probably very well, but when you make a comment like this, you will have to wait for your own form to be in order.
Haaland lives and dies regularly through the service he obtains, and today. Today, the company did and can only see the mistakes of the teammates wasted their intelligent work.
However, Arsenal enthusiasts will appreciate the fall of their city and beyond.
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There were the bones of intelligent functionality of the city here, given the disorders they had this season, but their mistakes have gone through all the hopes of taking some flight.
This Foden pass directly to the party was the genuine murderer of the city, admitting such an early purpose and if to a decrease in the load after returning to the adjustment to 1-1, the game of foden his role, got rid of the wind of his candles.
They controlled to worsen things for themselves, even if things are fine, and granted goals like never before Pep Guardiola.
The players continue to fight and continue to review to play the type of football that would take them to the top, however, this habit of individual errors (and granted the objectives of immediate succession) to any threat of progress.
Today, the city has to dig holes for themselves.
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In some aspects, this Hvertz functionality has demonstrated the complexity of the situation of the Arsenal attacker. The most important theme of discussion of the first half, apart from Odegaard’s first goal, the possibility of making 2-0 that Havertz returned.
Arsenal can have a more clinical No. 9. It is remarkable that, in Havertz and Gabriel Jesús, they ended with two countertops that percentage unusual and non -unusual weakness: the end.
With Jesus now marginalized, Arsenal has spent a giant component of the winter window to continue a new central center. Now they have a little more than 24 hours to visit to fill this void before the deadline GMT (6 p. m. He) from 23:00 morning.
What is curious is that, even if Arsenal manages to win an attacker before the window closes, the new guy will be difficult to dislodge Hvertz from the team. When a more difficult opportunity to score came here, Hvertz ended up with aplomb.
All in Arsenal want an attacker. But can Arteta locate one in the next few hours that will appreciate more than Hvertz? It is more complicated to say it.
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With the dangerous pass of Stefan Ortega to Mateo Kovacic halfway, the first half, presenting Hvertz a possibility on a golden edge, City reached a dark monument in northern London.
It was his number 23 that led to an opposition shot in the Premier League 2024-25, even with 14 games to play, is more than what each of their 10 past seasons made.
In addition to the apparent risks, the technique of the city to collect the entire game of today was rarely creative enough to reach the bottom of the arsenal defensive form. With the champions still so fragile in their defensive third, the errors in the property are the last thing they need.
But the inability to locate its path through the first two tension lines is equally negative to its difficulties in controlling such giant games.
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In September, Arteta gave Lewis-Skelly his higher beginnings when these two groups met in the adjustment invested in the Etihad stadium. It is a massive statement of the manager’s religion in Lewis-Skelly, after 17 years.
Since then, Lewis-Skelly has increasingly forced. For this game, Arteta decided before 42 million pounds sterling ($ 52 million at existing prices) Riccardo Calafiori signal. It will be difficult to move. The multitude of Emirates Stadium has a new hero.
He also joined the enthusiasts through the reproduction of the Meditation of Meditation of Haaland, a reminder of a brief inflammation point between the Norwegian striker and Lewis-Skelly this 2-2 draw in Manchester.
The appearance of Lewis-Skelly and his colleague Nwaneri one of the positive problems of the Arsenal season. Nwaneri even discovered the time to put the cake with its magnificent moment of the week to do it 5-1.
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A statistic about Wonderkid Ethan Nwaneri, 17: Wonderkid Ethan:
Only Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney, with nine each, obtained more objectives for a Premier League team when she 17 or less than Nwaneri, who has seven for Arsenal.
The Arsenal young man has until his 18th birthday on March 21 to pass over those two!
The 5-1 setback today the heaviest defeat in the city in an attack of the doors of the Premier League from the 4-0 defeat in Everton in January 2017, while the Arsenal registered its greatest victory ever made in The festival opposed to the reigning champions.
City has now granted 53 goals in 36 games in all competitions, so this season, only one less than in 59 games last season (54).
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta lost nine of his first 10 managerial meetings with Pep Guardiola (one win).
But after today’s victory, only the third manager to attend five undefeated games in all competitions opposed to the Spaniards (two victories, 3 draws), after Thomas Tuchel (2016-2021) and Jurgen Klopp (2021-2022222222 ).
Arsenal remained undefeated in 14 consecutive games in the Premier League (nine victories, five draws) for the first time since December 2018, the predecessor of Arteta Unai Emery (also a series of 14).
With the teenagers of Arsenal Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly on the FIT sheet, it is only the fourth time that two players greater than 18 or less had scored for the same team in a Fitarray of the Premier League
This is the first time he has Fulham from Everton in April 2007 (James Vaughan and Victor Anicebe).
They are the youngest players to score the reigning champions since Wayne Rooney brought to Everton opposite to Arsenal in March 2003 at 17 and 150 days.
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Another massive functionality through Myles Lewis-Skelly today and Mikel Arteta questioned the 18-year-old.
“You want wonderful individual performances to overcome this team in the way we have done it. And Myles in fact,” he told Sky Sports.
“The adulthood that has demonstrated, competitiveness too and, in addition to that, marks a goal. Great. And he plays with this personality. He has been pressing us since he is with us. We love the character, the personality and he has a lot courage.
“It is very well prepared, intelligent and has qualities that correspond to the need to play. Then he won the right to be a good reputation through his teammates, he won a few minutes and deserves to play. “
And now, the winning manager, who obviously on the moon with the final results of today’s game.
“It’s a great day for us, especially with the desire we had to win the game and tension (in Liverpool),” said Mikel Arteta de Arsenal in Sky Sports. “And the way we did this is actually, really pleasant.
“You want everything in those games; moments when we dominated, moments that we had to suffer and moments when you want a little luck. In general, a very satisfied day. “
Like Stones previously, Pep Guardiola asked if his team suffered because they are in an era of transition between two times.
“We’ll see,” he told Sky Sports. “Obviously, our age, the manager is aging!
“It is normal, however, we are still in February, there are still many games to play and senior players are very important. And the new players can return to us. “
The interview after the Pep Guardiola match with Sky Sports with him in anger in the locker room that John Stones discussed previously.
“It will have to be when you lose a football in this way, especially the last 25 minutes,” said the city director.
“It is not simple to start the game to make it 1-0 as if we oppose Chelsea, however, the team really reacted, very well until the 60th minute. After that, we have lost what we will have to do.
“I don’t have the defense to protect my players or myself, of course, during the last 20, 25 minutes. The rest of the game played well, it is my feeling. “
It is never simple to go back in the Premier League. And Manchester City was also discovered this season.
Odegaard’s first purpose in the third purpose they admitted in the first 3 minutes of a Premier League League this season: no team has a worse record for this campaign.
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After a quiet first part of this season, Phil Foden will have filmed a corner with six goals and a decisive pass in 4 Premier League games in 2025.
But he returned to this first component of the Crusade this afternoon. The 24-year-old did not play the game almost enough and it was his bad pass that was selected a few seconds before the Arsenal did it 2-1.
In fact, Foden cannot blame the sadness of the city this season, however, his inability to recreate the brilliance of last season did not put Guardiola at a time when the champions were desperately inspired.
When Arsenal is in front of halfway at home, it is very much that the battles.
Today 30 times since January 2, 2022 who took an advantage of the Premier League in part time at Emirates Stadium.
And they have not lost any of those 30 games.
The last team to overcome Arsenal in the League when it is in front of the break? It would be Manchester City on New Year’s Day 3 years ago.
As the previous graph shows, Manchester City admitted objectives to a much higher rate than in any other premier league season under Pep Guardiola.
The reigning champions leave an average of 1. 46 objectives consisting of the adjustment in the 2024-25 crusade, while before that, they had an average one consisting of the game since 2016-2017 (the first crusade of the ‘Spanish in charge).