Arsenal was clinical when they won a 5-1 victory against Manchester City on Sunday, which marked the last overwhelming defeat of the Pep Guardiola team in a season full of them.
The Gunners took the lead just two minutes away when Martin Odegaard scored, capitalizing during a moment of official for the defense of the city. Erling Haaland scored an equalizer in the 55th minute, but this regularity was short -lived, Thomas Parte marking only two minutes later. The young person by Arsenal Myles Lewis-Skelley made three in the 62nd minute, while the next blow came in the 76th minute graceful of Kai Havertz. Ethan Nwaneri added a fifth in the 93rd minute to close things.
Here is an overview of the major moments of the Sunday match.
Game moment
Arsenal and City had played a fairly uniform game when Lewis-Skelley scored, which means that the game could go in many different directions, even if the Gunners led 2-1. Each team had seven shots and four on the target, while City barely won the expected goals from 0.94 to 0.86. However, when Lewis-Skelley, 18, marked, he managed to suck the energy of the city and tilted the match of a close victory to an x-ray. The 18 -year -old also scored his very first objective for Arsenal in the process, which did him in style.
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Havertz had an impact from start to finish, scoring the assistance on the goal of Odegaard, then grabbing a goal on his own half in the second half.
What the result means for the arsenal
Arsenal can still be six points behind Liverpool – which has a match in hand – in the title race, but they remain one of the most coherent teams in Europe while they extend their undefeated race to six.
What the result means for Manchester City
Manchester City is still in the top four of the Premier League, but Chelsea can exceed them on Monday with a victory over West Ham. Sunday’s defeat against Arsenal, however, only acts a bad season for the title champions of the Premier League. They collapsed in a long list of high -level matches this season, and although They won a notable victory over Chelsea just a week agoIt remains as clear as never that Guardiola has not been able to solve the problems of his team.
What is the next step
Sunday’s match against City was not the only big match for Arsenal this week. They go to Newcastle United on Wednesday for the second stage of the semi-finals of the EFL Cup (live Paramout +), And the Gunners have a deficit of 2-0 after the Magpies surprise victory in northern London last month. Arsenal then had the weekend after being eliminated from the FA Cup and resumed its Premier League campaign on February 15 against the favorites of relegation Leicester City.
As for Manchester City, they have favorable equality in FA Cup against Leyton Orient on Saturday before resuming their campaign from the UEFA Champions League on February 11 Paramount +. The European Champions 2023 play Real Madrid in the eliminations of the KO phase, marking another important test for the Guardiola team in a season full of them. They return to the Premier League on February 15 against Newcastle.