A 3-1 win at the Emirates returned City to the top of the Premier League.
Gavin Cooney Arsenal 1 Manchester City 3 A NIGHT FOR the realisation to run slickly like cold oils down the backs of Arsenal and the rest of the Premier League…it’s learning from its own mistakes!
City floundered for an hour against Arsenal under Guardiola’s pre-game plan but thrived once he tore it up, scoring twice to beat Arsenal 3-1 and return to the top of the league. It’s a caveated lead – on goal difference having played a game more – but plainly a huge shift of momentum. It was Silva off whom Eddie Nketiah ran to flash Oleksandr Zinchenko’s cross wide in the first clear chance of a clash knotted with fabulous, big-game tension. Silva found himself at left-back partly because Zinchenko was wearing the red of Arsenal, allowed to leave for a rival in the summer by City in an act of munificence by Guardiola followed by the packing off of Joao Cancelo to Bayern Munich in the name of squad harmony. But these are the counter-intuitions characteristic of Guardiola.
Arsenal’s responded as they have all season: calmly. They kept on weaving their patterns and starving City of possession, quickly levelling when Saka rolled home a penalty won when Ederson collided with Nketiah. Ederson was fortunate not to be sent off for a second yellow card, with the baying Emirates crowd forced to settle for his embarrassment of seeing Saka slot the ball into the corner he had pointed toward.City were improved in the second half but the transformation came on the hour mark.
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