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Quote from: tusandii on September 22, 2024, 09:44:18 PM

Arsenal managed to hold Manchester City to a draw even though they lost 1 player in at the end of the first half and they started the second half with only 10 players I think this is a fair result for both of them because they are equally strong this season but I have to admit Arsenal's defense is quite strong even though they don't dominate the ball much compared to Manchester City but the Man City players looked very frustrated because the match was very fierce even Arsenal had a 2 goal lead in the first half but in the end Manchester City scored the final goal created by John Stones and finally managed to get 1 point.

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I was totally blown away away by the team’s performance yesterday, it shows how much the boys are hungry for success as much as to stop Manchester City’s dominance against them. With Odegaard’s absence I expected a different game strategy but Arteta surprised everyone, he started Calafiori and Timber together in the wings. Arsenal were unbelievable strong, it’s really unlucky that they couldn’t secure all three points.

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Quote from: bering on September 23, 2024, 07:39:04 AM

The match against Arsenal has a victim that it is confirmed Rodri gets the injury and it is thought that he has an ACL injury and as far i know ACL injury takes months to gets recover and i think if this really happend then this could be a big lost for Manchester City because just like we all know Rodri position in Manchester City is irreplaceable and we can see it based on his statistics for each season that Guardiola always be rely on him for defensive midfielder position

Luckily Manchester City has Gundogan who bought from Barcelona this summer so he can be played as defensive midfielder to replace Rodri position and i think Gundogan quality too equal to Rodri and Guardiola still waiting the current condition of Rodri and he still hopes Rodri will not gets long term injury

This is the latest information on the 28yo Spanish midfielder. He is set to be out of the season since the injury on his knee is serious. I would say he is a very important player in Manchester Coty, his absence may be felt if at all not in all matches but we all know what he is capable of doing. Rodri has the power shot outside of the 18-yard. By my speculation, if he had been in that match in the second half I would have seen a goal from him because I trust his accuracy.

No doubt Gundogan is a good player and he can fill in the space of Rodri in his absence. Much will be expected from Gundogan because the one who have held that position has done extraordinarily.

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Quote from: KingsDen on September 23, 2024, 08:06:34 AM

I am neither a Manchester city fan nor an Arsenal fan, but the match between Manchester City and Arsenal that ended in draw was not pleasant to me. I feel that football isn't fair to Arsenal. Arsenal deserved 3 points and I strongly feel they were robbed or football isn't fair with the.

We could say it's football, but I really felt bad at Trossard's second yellow, followed by a red card. That is not a type of match to be giving uncertain yellow cards. This was just a good win for Arsenal but it's unfortunate it didn't happen.

A good time to end City's dominance of the EPL. It's funny how Manchester City might get the title again this season.

Both teams are very strong but being a Man City fan I was supporting them and I hoped they could win the match. Although both sides put a lot of effort into the match, their reputation depended on winning this match. Winning a match against a weaker team is not much fun but it is much more fun when you win a match against a team that is equally strong or stronger than yourself. If man city had won the match, they would have been more 3 points ahead of the other competitors. And this would have helped them hold their first position more strongly. But unfortunately the match was a draw

I expected that this was going to be a straight win for man city even though I knew arsenal was coming into the game with a totally different mentality than they've played with against other teams. After the late red card, the natural thing I thought would happen is that is will be a devastating one for arteta but he handled it in a good way. From What arsenal has succeeded in doing, it will be deficult for any other team to do that against man city. Even Liverpool can't draw man city comfortably with thier complete men on ground not to talk of playing with a man down and saka even subbed off. Since arsenal defense was strong and man city couldn't move past it, had it been they brought in foden earlier enough he would have helped made attempt to shoot more from distance since he has good goal scoring record from a distance. With the few time he even played, his impact was hugely felt as he almost caused a deflection that nearly went to the back of the net.

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Quote from: Accardo on September 23, 2024, 09:16:58 AM

It would have ended as a match with an intensive drama, but Arsenal by going all defense in the second half messed the game up. The strategy was poorly formed, not even a striker was outside the 18 yard box to try a counter attack. Why wouldn't they try to attack Man city? Those moment the gunners decided to defend their goal, I knew it'll end up a draw.

I saw the drama coming from the point where Manchester City had a player leaving at the beginning of the game, Arsenal did their best to keep the game in balance but the erratic nature of the game continued because Manchester City wanted to win that game by almost all means because it was the biggest rival they have in England currently but then they didn't get a bad results at the end of the day because they did made sure to maintain a system where their defense remains almost impenetrable by their opponent to a great extent, I want to see what will be like at the gunners home in their next fixture.

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Quote from: imamusma on September 23, 2024, 10:34:22 AM

All contestants are ambitious to break Manchester City dominance this season, and it must be admitted that Arsenal is the team with the most potential to do so. The match in week 5 yesterday, gave an illustration of how Arsenal is very threatening to Pep Guardiola squad position at the top of the standings. Liverpool, Aston Villa and Chelsea also seem to be able to enliven the competition for the trophy. Overall we really enjoy the Premier League matches every week, with unbeaten Brighton and Nottingham Forest adding another attraction. The points gap is still very thin, with the number of matches ahead still very much, it is difficult to guess who will succeed in lifting the trophy this season.

It's too early to guess who will win the trophy as it's only the start of the league season and there are many surprising matches ahead.

But I'm still curious how Man City vs Liverpool will be owned by the new manager Arne Slot, I will not consider yesterday's defeat bad it was just unlucky for Liverpool but when they meet this will certainly be a fierce match and it could be Liverpool stopping the dominance of Man City's victory, who knows right because seeing Liverpool's current performance is quite good.

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Quote from: Accardo on September 23, 2024, 09:16:58 AM

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the match was filled with plenty drama and actions, Manchester City tried to equalize the game but it caused them their key player Rodri. I remember sometime ago when Rodri was not available for several games, it cause Manchester City to lose some games, I just hoe what happened last season would not repeat again, well I trust Pep Guardiola would have learnt from the previous season. Arsenal really tried in that game, playing with 10 men against a big club like Manchester City and not losing is not easy, not every club could do that.

It would have ended as a match with an intensive drama, but Arsenal by going all defense in the second half messed the game up. The strategy was poorly formed, not even a striker was outside the 18 yard box to try a counter attack. Why wouldn't they try to attack Man city? Those moment the gunners decided to defend their goal, I knew it'll end up a draw.

I understand what you're trying to say but Remember that they were playing against Manchester City not any other club but Manchester City with one man down so paying defensively is the best thing they did cause if they had come out to try score another goal or attempt a counter it would had lead to an error and give City more chance to equalize and score another goal, playing one man down against City and ending with a draw is not bad at all, remember it's Manchester City, the best club in the EPL currently not Tottenham or one of those low table clubs in the EPL so my take is that Arsenal really tried to atleast grab a point, since they couldn't win the game and if they had played with all 11 players in the complete 90mins, then chances are that they would've scored more goals or maintained the 2-1 they played before Manchester City equalized, atleast a draw is better than losing and the blame should be on the referee for a wrong call instead of Arsenal players.

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All contestants are ambitious to break Manchester City dominance this season, and it must be admitted that Arsenal is the team with the most potential to do so. The match in week 5 yesterday, gave an illustration of how Arsenal is very threatening to Pep Guardiola squad position at the top of the standings. Liverpool, Aston Villa and Chelsea also seem to be able to enliven the competition for the trophy. Overall we really enjoy the Premier League matches every week, with unbeaten Brighton and Nottingham Forest adding another attraction. The points gap is still very thin, with the number of matches ahead still very much, it is difficult to guess who will succeed in lifting the trophy this season.

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Quote from: Docnaster on September 23, 2024, 09:57:39 AM

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It is not easy to face Manchester City with all the strength and mentality of the players and also the manager (Pep Guardiola). And I think the Arsenal players have given their all to continue playing organized. I salute Arteta who continues to build the squad even though he has not been able to win the Premier League title. We must realize that in the last few seasons The Gunners have indeed become serious challengers and maybe this season they will get their target even though it is difficult.

Before Manchester City's game against Arsenal yesterday, City's midfielder Rodri did tell the media that the reason Arsenal failed to win at Etihad last season was because of their mentality. He believed that Mikel Arteta's men came with the mentality of getting a draw instead of winning and that I think provoked Arsenal players to give their best in that yesterday game. Arsenal were absolutely determined to get the best out of that match but was unfortunate to leave with a draw after John Stones scored the equalizer in the dying minutes of the game.

With that result and performance, I think Arsenal players and manager will be telling themselves that they can win the English Premier League title this season if they remain focused. I love the energy I saw from Arsenal yesterday and I hope they continue to with it

I am happy that Pep has seen that Arteta is improving his squad steadily and that was the tension that Arsenal put on him yesterday even with a man down. The red card was what spoilt the match yesterday if not I am sure that City will not be able to win Arsenal.

If Arsenal can have a winning mentality this season and keep to their consistency Manchester City might be disappointed that they will not be able to win the league. But currently City is currently topping the table and any that still gives them a good advantage over Arsenal on winning the league.

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Quote from: Docnaster on September 23, 2024, 09:57:39 AM

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It is not easy to face Manchester City with all the strength and mentality of the players and also the manager (Pep Guardiola). And I think the Arsenal players have given their all to continue playing organized. I salute Arteta who continues to build the squad even though he has not been able to win the Premier League title. We must realize that in the last few seasons The Gunners have indeed become serious challengers and maybe this season they will get their target even though it is difficult.

Before Manchester City's game against Arsenal yesterday, City's midfielder Rodri did tell the media that the reason Arsenal failed to win at Etihad last season was because of their mentality. He believed that Mikel Arteta's men came with the mentality of getting a draw instead of winning and that I think provoked Arsenal players to give their best in that yesterday game. Arsenal were absolutely determined to get the best out of that match but was unfortunate to leave with a draw after John Stones scored the equalizer in the dying minutes of the game.

With that result and performance, I think Arsenal players and manager will be telling themselves that they can win the English Premier League title this season if they remain focused. I love the energy I saw from Arsenal yesterday and I hope they continue to with it

It is just obvious that Rodri doesn't know what he is saying. From the very beginning of Arsenal's game, they always play defensively and when they are with the ball they also attack with the same energy. What Arteta boys are doing is that when they have the ball they go for a goal and when the ball is against them everyone falls and defends. The reason for doing that is not because they want a draw game is because their pattern is to concede fewer goals and secure the chances of winning. Through set piece and counter attacks.

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Quote from: RockBell on September 23, 2024, 08:52:51 AM

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It is not easy to face Manchester City with all the strength and mentality of the players and also the manager (Pep Guardiola). And I think the Arsenal players have given their all to continue playing organized. I salute Arteta who continues to build the squad even though he has not been able to win the Premier League title. We must realize that in the last few seasons The Gunners have indeed become serious challengers and maybe this season they will get their target even though it is difficult.

Before Manchester City's game against Arsenal yesterday, City's midfielder Rodri did tell the media that the reason Arsenal failed to win at Etihad last season was because of their mentality. He believed that Mikel Arteta's men came with the mentality of getting a draw instead of winning and that I think provoked Arsenal players to give their best in that yesterday game. Arsenal were absolutely determined to get the best out of that match but was unfortunate to leave with a draw after John Stones scored the equalizer in the dying minutes of the game.

With that result and performance, I think Arsenal players and manager will be telling themselves that they can win the English Premier League title this season if they remain focused. I love the energy I saw from Arsenal yesterday and I hope they continue to with it

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Quote from: KingsDen on September 23, 2024, 08:06:34 AM

I am neither a Manchester city fan nor an Arsenal fan, but the match between Manchester City and Arsenal that ended in draw was not pleasant to me. I feel that football isn't fair to Arsenal. Arsenal deserved 3 points and I strongly feel they were robbed or football isn't fair with the.

We could say it's football, but I really felt bad at Trossard's second yellow, followed by a red card. That is not a type of match to be giving uncertain yellow cards. This was just a good win for Arsenal but it's unfortunate it didn't happen.

A good time to end City's dominance of the EPL. It's funny how Manchester City might get the title again this season.

Both teams are very strong but being a Man City fan I was supporting them and I hoped they could win the match. Although both sides put a lot of effort into the match, their reputation depended on winning this match. Winning a match against a weaker team is not much fun but it is much more fun when you win a match against a team that is equally strong or stronger than yourself. If man city had won the match, they would have been more 3 points ahead of the other competitors. And this would have helped them hold their first position more strongly. But unfortunately the match was a draw

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Quote from: KingsDen on September 23, 2024, 08:06:34 AM

We could say it's football, but I really felt bad at Trossard's second yellow, followed by a red card. That is not a type of match to be giving uncertain yellow cards. This was just a good win for Arsenal but it's unfortunate it didn't happen.

What causes Trossard’s red card in the match was lack of discipline, he already knows the rules, and he knows that he is already having a yellow card, he should be cautious and shouldn’t even try crazy things. I don’t know the reason why people keep on saying that the red card wasn’t deserved. At least next time any player with a yellow card won’t try something like that, why did he play the ball even after the whistle has been blown already? Arsenal were just unlucky in the match, even with the red card, they will have been able to maintain the win. Manchester City equalized during the extra time given, which some Arsenal fans still complained that the 8 minutes was too much.

Quote from: KingsDen on September 23, 2024, 08:06:34 AM

A good time to end City's dominance of the EPL. It's funny how Manchester City might get the title again this season.

I don’t think any club will be able to compete with Manchester City for the league title this season, the only club that will try is Arsenal, and I am not yet satisfied with their pattern of play.

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Quote from: MainIbem on September 23, 2024, 08:38:39 AM

the match was filled with plenty drama and actions, Manchester City tried to equalize the game but it caused them their key player Rodri. I remember sometime ago when Rodri was not available for several games, it cause Manchester City to lose some games, I just hoe what happened last season would not repeat again, well I trust Pep Guardiola would have learnt from the previous season. Arsenal really tried in that game, playing with 10 men against a big club like Manchester City and not losing is not easy, not every club could do that.

It would have ended as a match with an intensive drama, but Arsenal by going all defense in the second half messed the game up. The strategy was poorly formed, not even a striker was outside the 18 yard box to try a counter attack. Why wouldn't they try to attack Man city? Those moment the gunners decided to defend their goal, I knew it'll end up a draw.

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Quote from: TelolettOm on September 23, 2024, 08:25:34 AM

We can't deny that controversial.
Starting from the decision that caused the red card and quick free kick. Hmm, the rivalry between the two is increasingly visible and tight. There is annoyance in both, Arteta and Pep. And for Pep himself, regarding the following:

Arsenal probably had no other choice to get at least one point in this match, probably this is the first match when I watched how in such an important match, one of the teams (one of the contenders for the title), spent the whole half in their penalty area with the whole team. It seems to me that Arteta gave a practical guide on how other teams should act against City. Cheesy

Of course I'm kidding, if all matches against City were played according to this scenario, it would be the most boring football, but this match was not boring but very tense, and the fact that City could not equalize for so long made this half very short, the time passed very quickly. I think a draw is a fair score for such a match, City saved first place, and by the way Aston Villa is quite close to City, and Chelsea have risen well.

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Quote from: $anounimus$ on September 23, 2024, 06:38:46 AM

It is not easy to face Manchester City with all the strength and mentality of the players and also the manager (Pep Guardiola). And I think the Arsenal players have given their all to continue playing organized. I salute Arteta who continues to build the squad even though he has not been able to win the Premier League title. We must realize that in the last few seasons The Gunners have indeed become serious challengers and maybe this season they will get their target even though it is difficult.

As the slogan of Arsenal fans every season is "enjoy the moment" and now despite losing but we are quite sure the difference between Man City and Arsenal is getting thinner from season to season Arsenal have always been at the forefront of declaring open war on Pep Guardiola troops. Gradually Arsenal will definitely overthrow the Citizen throne, no one is forever at the top. This draw I feel like a defeat for Man City because when hosting 3 full points is a result that needs to be achieved. Arsenal this season will continue to shadow Man City whenever waiting for the time to slip.

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Quote from: $anounimus$ on September 23, 2024, 06:38:46 AM

It is not easy to face Manchester City with all the strength and mentality of the players and also the manager (Pep Guardiola). And I think the Arsenal players have given their all to continue playing organized. I salute Arteta who continues to build the squad even though he has not been able to win the Premier League title. We must realize that in the last few seasons The Gunners have indeed become serious challengers and maybe this season they will get their target even though it is difficult.

we all watched the game, and there is nothing as if it is not easy to face Manchester City arsenal played well and if it was about who deserved to win then I will say that Arsenal deserved the win yesterday, just that we were having a hard time trying to keep up since were already one man down we even tried to keep up, and it was when the game was almost over that they were able to score their second goal and getting an equal point. arteta tried but I am just satisfied with our new pattern.

And people thought that if we played against Manchester City they were going to win, even I had that mindset that we were not going to be able to win against Manchester City not because I didn't have confidence in Arsenal but just because of this defense game. and we still have more chances to dominate this season but we have to make a few changes to our we are playing because we are already playing the clubs that are going to be a problem to us like Aston Villa and even Manchester City, there is still plenty of hope for us.

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Quote from: Mame89 on September 23, 2024, 08:15:05 AM

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It is not easy to face Manchester City with all the strength and mentality of the players and also the manager (Pep Guardiola). And I think the Arsenal players have given their all to continue playing organized. I salute Arteta who continues to build the squad even though he has not been able to win the Premier League title. We must realize that in the last few seasons The Gunners have indeed become serious challengers and maybe this season they will get their target even though it is difficult.

Arsenal in this match actually died well in the first round they could compensate for resistance from Man City and Arsenal in front of 1-2. But after they got a red card and had to play with ten Arsenal people who were overwhelmed by Man City attacks. Arsenal is better this season than last season if from Permian troops they only need to continue to be consistent to continue to compete with Man City until the end of the season.

But clearly this fight is very interesting and tense can be seen from the unique moments of the two coaches caught on camera in this fight. Pep Gurdiola was angry and kicked his chair, Arteta covered his face because of frustration in a big battle between Man City and Arsenal. In my opinion this is a good result for Arsenal, because it is not easy when they have to play against 11 people while they have to play with 10 people. Still Lucky Arsenal is not inferior to this fight, because Arsenal played with 10 people from the beginning of the second half.

The call from the referee is enough for any coach to get frustrated, the first yellow card should've been a warning cause the foul wasn't something worth yellow card then the second one is the initial yellow cause Arsenal's player was tough on Bernardo Silver but then the referee's excuse was that Trossard kicked the ball after he blew wistle well the mistake had already been made right from when he gave Trossard the first yellow so I believe it was tough for the referee to resist showing him the second one since he defending poorly against Silver. The match was filled with plenty drama and actions, Manchester City tried to equalize the game but it caused them their key player Rodri. I remember sometime ago when Rodri was not available for several games, it cause Manchester City to lose some games, I just hope what happened last season would not repeat again, well I trust Pep Guardiola would have learnt from the previous season. Arsenal really tried in that game, playing with 10 men against a big club like Manchester City and not losing is not easy, not every club could do that.

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Quote from: bering on September 23, 2024, 07:39:04 AM

Luckily Manchester City has Gundogan who bought from Barcelona this summer so he can be played as defensive midfielder to replace Rodri position and i think Gundogan quality too equal to Rodri and Guardiola still waiting the current condition of Rodri and he still hopes Rodri will not gets long term injury

I don't even no why Manchester City sold Ilkay Gundogan on the first place because he was an assets to the club and one of the best midfielder, everybody knows how impressive he has been during this number of years he has been playing for Manchester City, however Manchester City is very lucky to have gotten him back to the team because this is the moment they needed him the most because of the Rodri injury that may likely take more longer time before he would be back on his feet.

So with the efficient performance of Gundogan on the midfield he will perfectly cover up well for Rodri since he has been playing with the club for some years now and there is no need in getting use to the club any longer, so is actually good to have him back because Barcelona was not that good as Manchester City is for him.

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Quote from: tusandii on September 22, 2024, 09:44:18 PM

Arsenal managed to hold Manchester City to a draw even though they lost 1 player in at the end of the first half and they started the second half with only 10 players I think this is a fair result for both of them because they are equally strong this season but I have to admit Arsenal's defense is quite strong even though they don't dominate the ball much compared to Manchester City but the Man City players looked very frustrated because the match was very fierce even Arsenal had a 2 goal lead in the first half but in the end Manchester City scored the final goal created by John Stones and finally managed to get 1 point.

Source: Man City and Arsenal Statistics

Am I the only one who dislike and hate the word manage in this post? Manchester City even at home fought and begged for one point in this game. Maybe they should give praise to Michael Oliver for mishandling this very game. English Premier League officials are not progressing forward truthfully and it breaks my heart to see that they let City players go away with so many wrong decisions they made during the game.

Well, People called this disrespect, I call it rivalry. Maybe it was direct disrespect to Mikel Arteta but, these are the things that makes the league interesting. Not the one Manchester United players did with Liverpool players after they lose 3 nil. Pathetic!!

Well, the news brings no joy to me honestly because this is a player I watch week in and out personally, but Manchester City and Pep Guardiola has big decisions to make for the full season ahead if the news is valid. Can Kovacic do the dirty works alone? Or Rico Lewis would be deployed? Thoughts?!

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Quote from: bering on September 23, 2024, 07:39:04 AM

The match against Arsenal has a victim that it is confirmed Rodri gets the injury and it is thought that he has an ACL injury and as far i know ACL injury takes months to gets recover and i think if this really happend then this could be a big lost for Manchester City because just like we all know Rodri position in Manchester City is irreplaceable and we can see it based on his statistics for each season that Guardiola always be rely on him for defensive midfielder position

Luckily Manchester City has Gundogan who bought from Barcelona this summer so he can be played as defensive midfielder to replace Rodri position and i think Gundogan quality too equal to Rodri and Guardiola still waiting the current condition of Rodri and he still hopes Rodri will not gets long term injury

Rodir didn't recover fully before he was brought in to that game yesterday and that was one of the reasons he was falling at almost every touch, but later left the pitch and so he could get the needed attention, he wasn't looking happy to leave, I saw his expression how he was really wishing he could stay some more and play but he's health wasn't permitting him to staying that further, thanks to the replacement they have on ground already els they wouldn't have been able to get a good result from that game.

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