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Arsenal - Manchester City: the realism of the Citizens, the mistakes of the Gunners

2023-02-15T22:35:16.576Z


Manchester City overthrew Arsenal from their Premier League throne on Wednesday night with a 1-3 win in London. Here are our highs and lows.


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Manchester City's attacking efficiency

For long minutes, we could wonder about the offensive performance of the Citizens who were slow before turning to the attack.

Long abused, having had difficulty getting the balls out properly, Guardiola's recipe was ultimately much more than successful.

By framing six of nine attempts and with only 38% of possession, Manchester City have almost always been dangerous as soon as a rare opportunity presented itself.

They took advantage of the slightest error to worry the Arsenal defense as on Kevin De Bruyne's opener against the run of play (24th).

Even in the first period, Rodri finds the crossbar on a free kick taken by Mahrez (45th + 6).

The Mancunians accelerated in the last quarter of an hour to get to the

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This poster was on paper one of the most awaited this week on the football planet and the two teams responded with many twists and turns but above all energy, intensity and aggressiveness.

We clearly felt the stakes of this part.

On returning from the locker room, the pace intensified with several well-felt mistakes by the 22 players.

Moreover, Mr. Taylor had work with a total of 26 cumulative fouls and no less than 6 yellow cards distributed.

A rough tactical battle with interesting momentums.

And this result promises great things since the race is relaunched more than ever!

Read alsoLIVE - Premier League: Manchester City strikes a blow by overthrowing Arsenal

FLOPS

Tomiyasu and Gabriel at fault

Arsenal can harbor many regrets.

If the Gunners dominated by producing a good offensive copy, in cruel lack of realism, it was the defense which was mainly at fault this evening by offering two of their opponents' three goals.

On De Bruyne's opener, the Japanese side Takehiro Tomiyasu, put under pressure on his flank, completely missed his discount for his goalkeeper - recovered and concluded by the Belgian face-to-face (24th).

On Jack Grealish's saving goal, it was defender Gabriel Magalhães who gave the ball back to Bernardo Silva, missing his header (72nd).

Ederson far from reassuring

Manchester City's victory should not make us forget the rather worrying copy of Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson.

Warned quickly in the match (36th) for repeated time savings in clearances, he completely missed his exit, thus hitting Edward Nketiah, which caused the penalty converted by Bukayo Saka on the equalizer (42nd).

Ederson also missed several outings, delivering avoidable corners or dangerous touches to the Gunners.

In general, he did not exude an imposing serenity.

He ends the game with zero saves and only 50% successful passes.

Source: lefigaro

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