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Man City 1-0 Arsenal: Raheem Sterling scores winner

Man City 1-0 Arsenal: Raheem Sterling scores winner
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Raheem Sterling scored his fourth goal of the season for Man City

Stand-in skipper Raheem Sterling scored the only goal as Manchester City returned to winning ways in their Premier League clash with Arsenal.

Sterling, given the armband by manager Pep Guardiola with Fernandinho on the bench and Kevin de Bruyne injured, finished off the rebound after Phil Foden’s 23rd-minute shot had been saved.

Arsenal had chances to level but City keeper Ederson denied them with three excellent first-half saves and both David Luiz and Pepe were off target with free-kicks in good positions after the break.

The result extended a miserable run of away results against their fellow ‘top six’ members for Arsenal. They have now failed to win in their last 29 such meetings, since a success at City in 2015.

Guardiola is yet to drop a point against the Gunners in five encounters at Etihad Stadium since he succeeded Manuel Pellegrini as City manager in 2016.

More importantly for his side, after picking up a single point from their last two games, they were able to claim maximum points in this one.

The three points came even without De Bruyne and with the returning Sergio Aguero restricted to an hour’s action on his first appearance since June after recovering from a knee injury.

Relive Man City’s win over Arsenal

Master beats pupil

As might have been expected from a meeting between Guardiola and the man he spent three-and-a-half years alongside in the City dug-out, Mikel Arteta, this was a tactical blitz.

At one point, Willian was operating as centre-forward and Sterling was sitting deep in midfield. After Aguero’s exit, Bernado Silva briefly went into the false nine role as both men tried to keep the other guessing.

Arteta was able to bring on £45m new-boy Thomas Partey for his debut near the end but the truth is, he doesn’t have the strength in depth afforded to Guardiola.

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Both sides suffered disruption in the build-up, although the loss of Aymeric Laporte and Mendy to injury had less of an impact on City as the delay in finding out the Premier League were prepared to allow Kieran Tierney to play had on the Gunners.

The Arsenal defender had been told to isolate by the local health authority in Scotland due to a ‘close contact’ breach on international duty.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the Gunners then lost defender Rob Holding to a hamstring injury in the warm-up.

This all contributed to a slow start they never really recovered from as City kept their first clean sheet of the season with a defensive performance far removed from the one which saw them concede five against Leicester in their previous home game.


Excellent Ederson

When it comes to debating who has been Guardiola’s best signing as City boss, for all the excellence of Kyle Walker, Bernardo Silva and – briefly – Leroy Sane, Ederson must surely come out on top.

A £35m purchase from Benfica after Joe Hart had been ditched and Claudio Bravo had flopped, Ederson won Premier League titles in his first two seasons and the Golden Glove last term, even though City’s only silverware was the EFL Cup.

With new signing Ruben Dias still settling in, Laporte missing and Nathan Ake only making his fifth Blues appearance, Guardiola needs the Brazilian to be a steady presence.

It may have been that Bukayo Saka’s shot from an angle was going over as the visitors tried to respond to Sterling’s opener but Ederson took no chances.

However, his two saves at the end of the opening period were superb. Saka was again the man denied by a feet-first stop when the teenager found himself clean through after playing a one-two with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Within minutes, Ederson was denying Aubameyang with an even better save. As the flag immediately went up to signal offside, there appeared nothing in it. The true value of Ederson’s work was not apparent until TV replays showed the assistant referee’s ruling was incorrect. Without the keeper’s intervention, Arsenal would have been level.

Ederson made another save, from a Pepe header, at the start of the second period, although compared to what had gone before, that was fairly routine.

With Arsenal unable to find their range with a couple of free-kicks either, Ederson’s efforts mean the Gunners have now lost seven league matches in a row against City, the first time they have done that against any opponent since Ipswich in the 1970s.

Boss Guardiola said post-game that full-back Benjamin Mendy will be out injured for three to four weeks, while centre-back Aymeric Laporte could return within a week.

‘I am upset’ – what they said:

Man City manager Pep Guardiola: “It was difficult but we have won 1-0 and Ederson again was incredibly active like he was against Leeds.

“We are still a little bit away from our best performance that we are wishing but for many reasons it is not possible. The victory helped us a lot, we defended really well deep and up front and it’s a good three points against an impressive opponent.”

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta: “I am upset as I feel we deserved more. I am extremely happy with the performance though, which we put in against a top team.

“I cannot demand more from players apart from we had three chances and had to score.

“Every goal the opponent scores there is something we can do better, we cannot change that. We know everything has to be perfect in both boxes to beat Manchester City.”

Asked if his side need to change their dismal record away at the top six, Arteta said: “Absolutely. You want to go to every ground and win.

“To get into the position you have to do so many good things, throughout 96 minutes, and we did a lot of them but in the end, games are decided in the boxes.

“Against big teams, when you get there, you have to put them away.”

What next?

City are next in action against FC Porto at the Etihad in the Champions League on Wednesday (kick-off 20:00 BST) before taking on West Ham at the London Stadium next Saturday, 24 October (12:30).

Arsenal also have a European engagement, in Austria against Rapid Vienna in the Europa League on Thursday (17:55 BST). The Gunners entertain Leicester in the league next Sunday (19:15).

Arsenal’s nemesis Sterling – the stats

  • Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 10 Premier League encounters with Arsenal (W8 D2), since a 2-1 loss in December 2015.
  • Arsenal are winless in their last 29 Premier League away games against “big six” opponents (D10 L19) since a 2-0 win v Manchester City in January 2015.
  • Manchester City have conceded just one goal in their last six Premier League games against Arsenal, keeping a shut out v four different managers in this run (Arsene Wenger, Unai Emery, Fredrik Ljungberg and Mikel Arteta x2).
  • Arsenal have lost each of their last seven league games against Manchester City, their longest such run against an opponent since losing seven in a row v Ipswich between 1974-1977.
  • Pep Guardiola has won 500 games in all competitions as a manager (including Barcelona B), winning 172 as Manchester City boss.
  • Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson has kept 53 clean sheets in the Premier League since his debut in August 2017; 15 more than any other goalkeeper in this time.
  • Raheem Sterling has had a hand in each of Manchester City’s last five goals in all competitions (4 goals, 1 assist).
  • Man City’s Sterling has been directly involved in six goals in his last five Premier League appearances against Arsenal (4 goals, 2 assists).

Player of the match

SterlingRaheem Sterling

with an average of 7.45

Manchester City

  1. Squad number7Player nameSterling
    Average rating

    7.45

  2. Squad number31Player nameEderson
    Average rating

    7.44

  3. Squad number20Player nameBernardo Silva
    Average rating

    7.09

  4. Squad number3Player nameRúben Dias
    Average rating

    7.03

  5. Squad number6Player nameAké
    Average rating

    6.89

  6. Squad number47Player nameFoden
    Average rating

    6.80

  7. Squad number10Player nameAgüero
    Average rating

    6.79

  8. Squad number2Player nameWalker
    Average rating

    6.78

  9. Squad number27Player nameJoão Cancelo
    Average rating

    6.60

  10. Squad number16Player nameRodri
    Average rating

    6.55

  11. Squad number26Player nameMahrez
    Average rating

    6.39

  12. Squad number25Player nameFernandinho
    Average rating

    6.07

  13. Squad number8Player nameGündogan
    Average rating

    5.97

Arsenal

  1. Squad number7Player nameSaka
    Average rating

    6.54

  2. Squad number3Player nameTierney
    Average rating

    6.16

  3. Squad number6Player nameGabriel Magalhães
    Average rating

    5.90

  4. Squad number34Player nameXhaka
    Average rating

    5.65

  5. Squad number8Player nameDani Ceballos
    Average rating

    5.55

  6. Squad number23Player nameDavid Luiz
    Average rating

    5.53

  7. Squad number18Player namePartey
    Average rating

    5.51

  8. Squad number1Player nameLeno
    Average rating

    5.48

  9. Squad number14Player nameAubameyang
    Average rating

    5.41

  10. Squad number19Player namePépé
    Average rating

    5.41

  11. Squad number9Player nameLacazette
    Average rating

    5.27

  12. Squad number2Player nameBellerín
    Average rating

    5.27

  13. Squad number30Player nameNketiah
    Average rating

    5.26

  14. Squad number12Player nameWillian
    Average rating

    5.17

Line-ups

Man City

  • 31Ederson
  • 2Walker
  • 3Rúben DiasBooked at 68mins
  • 6AkéBooked at 84mins
  • 16RodriBooked at 14mins
  • 26Mahrez
  • 27CanceloBooked at 63mins
  • 20Bernardo Silva
  • 47FodenSubstituted forFernandinhoat 89′minutes
  • 7Sterling
  • 10AgüeroSubstituted forGündoganat 65′minutes

Substitutes

  • 5Stones
  • 8Gündogan
  • 13Steffen
  • 21Torres
  • 25Fernandinho
  • 48Delap
  • 50García

Arsenal

  • 1Leno
  • 2Bellerín
  • 23David Luiz
  • 6dos Santos Magalhães
  • 3Tierney
  • 8Ceballos
  • 34XhakaSubstituted forParteyat 83′minutesBooked at 90mins
  • 7Saka
  • 19PépéSubstituted forNketiahat 83′minutes
  • 12WillianSubstituted forLacazetteat 69′minutes
  • 14Aubameyang

Substitutes

  • 9Lacazette
  • 13Rúnarsson
  • 15Maitland-Niles
  • 18Partey
  • 25Elneny
  • 30Nketiah

Referee:
Chris Kavanagh

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