Arsenal gave 5 goals and 4 of them came in the second half where City managed to score one leaving Manchester with a big trauma for facing a defeat in Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
Arsenal Slams Manchester City With 5-1 Scoreline, Humiliating Pep In Emirates Stadium
Pep Guardiola became 5 matches winless against Arsenal, the last time Pep won 4-1 against Arteta in the Etihad nearly two years ago! Gunners never won with such a big margin against City in the last decade. The Student of Pep smashed his tactics leaving him frustrated in the field.
Very first goal came from the home side due to a horrendous mistake from Manuel Akanji leaving Rice to take the ball instantly to Havertz and Odegaard made no mistake in finishing the pass from the German in the 2nd minute of the game. Hazartz got another open chance to hit the target due to a mispass of City goalkeeper Ortega that he fired outside.
Halaand’s goal gave City a hope that immediately destroyed by Party
In the second half, City got the equalizer from the head of Halaand, who finished a tremendous cross by Savinho, making Pep slightly relaxed. The feeling ended 1 minute as the moment after the goal Foden’s mistake let Thomas Party take a long shot that slightly deflected on Stone’s back before touching the net.
After this, it's all Gunners game leaving City no chance to come back from here. Next goal came from Lewis-Skelly who scored his first goal in the Premier League in a red and white jersey and what an opponent to hit a debut goal for this youngster. After this, Manchester opened with a counter making only two defenders against 3 and Martinelli took the charge to take the ball into the D-box and rest was done by Havertz to make it 4-1 with an outstanding curler.
The young gunners are running riot in the field for their team
The goal was recreated, even upgraded in the dying moment of the match when 17-year-old Nwaneri took an outstanding curler from the edge of the box with his left foot to make it 5-1 completing the humiliation of Pep. The teenager now has 7 goals scored in all competitions for Gunners showing his potential to be part of the senior team.
With the score, Manchester remained in 4th position with 41 points in bag in 24 matches, and Gunners 50 points in the same number of games securing their second position in the league. The league leader Liverpool is 6 points ahead of Arsenal with a game in hand. So, Arsenal needs to work hard and wait for mistakes from Liverpool otherwise the Title would be clenched by Arne Slot in his debut year.
Credit- Arsenal
