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ALAN SHEARER picked lone 4 Arsenal stars successful his combined XI with Manchester City.
City big the Gunners successful what poses arsenic a conflict for the Premier League acme that could find the eventual rubric victor this Sunday astatine the Etihad.
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And it seems similar Shearer, 54, believes that the Citizens clasp an vantage successful presumption of prima prime arsenic helium picked 7 of Pep Guardiola's aces to his combined line-up.
The Newcastle fable opted for Ederson implicit Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya betwixt the sticks.
Kyle Walker made it astatine right-back with the Gunners' comeback leader Jurrien Timber connected the different side, portion his team-mates William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes spouse up astatine centre-back.
The BBC pundit past went for a afloat City midfield with Rodri teaming up with Bernardo Silva and Kevin De Bruyne, portion the Gunners' superstar Declan Rice was near out.
Arsenal prima Bukayo Saka earned a spot successful the close helping up beforehand with Phil Foden connected the different broadside and Erling Haaland spearheading the attack.
Kai Havertz was omitted contempt a agleam commencement to the run with 2 goals and 1 assistance successful 4 Premier League matches.
Many expect an entertaining brushwood betwixt the 2 biggest favourites to assistance the Premier League trophy successful May.
However, Shearer has a antithetic sentiment arsenic helium expects Arsenal and City to gully successful the weekend.
And the Premier League's grounds goalscorer is adamant that wouldn't beryllium a atrocious effect aft Liverpool's nonaccomplishment to Nottingham Forest past week.
Shearer told Betfair: "I americium going for a gully successful this one.
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"It’s a agelong week with some teams having played successful the Champions League arsenic well, truthful a gully for some teams isn't a atrocious result, adjacent though Man City are astatine home.
"Liverpool person dropped points already, Arsenal person dropped 2 points already astatine location to Brighton, but I don't deliberation a gully would beryllium a catastrophe for either team."
Arsenal ratings vs Atalanta arsenic Raya saves uninspiring Gunners successful Italy
ARSENAL had immoderate David Raya heroics to convey for a points successful the Champions League opener.
Raya’s stunning treble prevention conscionable aft the interruption spared Thomas Partey's blushes aft the midfielder gave distant a penalty.
And that was the closest either broadside came to a extremity successful the 0-0 draw.
Here's however SunSport's Joshua Jones rated Mikel Arteta's men...
David Raya - 9
Produced a simply stunning treble prevention to halt Mateo Retegui's punishment and past flung himself crossed to propulsion distant the follow-up rebound header - adjacent amended than his effort to contradict Ollie Watkins.
Robbie Savage labelled it the "best prevention I've ever seen" portion Gunners fans lauded their Spanish hero, who has conceded conscionable erstwhile successful 5 games truthful acold this term.
Ben White - 7
Given the daunting task of trying to support Ademola Lookman quiescent wrong a rocking Gewiss Stadium but completed the occupation with his classical relaxed, languid demeanour.
William Saliba - 8
One of the world's apical centre-backs but did not request to beryllium anyplace adjacent his champion - coagulated capable erstwhile called upon, including fantabulous precocious sliding tackle successful ain box.
Retegui showed large question but Saliba volition person acold sterner tests this season, nary much truthful than up against Erling Haaland connected Sunday.
Gabriel Magalhaes - 7
Like his spouse Saliba, Gabriel helped guarantee the Arsenal defence came retired connected top.
Starting to tally retired of words to accidental astir this brace who conscionable concede truthful fewer chances.
Jurrien Timber - 7
Adds an other magnitude to this Arsenal broadside - showing conscionable however overmuch helium was missed erstwhile sidelined past season.
Arguably had the easiest evening's enactment of the 4 defenders.
Thomas Partey - 4
Martin Keown described the Gunners' retraction en masse during the modulation arsenic Arteta putting up his ain "Thames Barrier".
But Partey astir allowed the floodgates to unfastened by giving distant the punishment 3 minutes into the 2nd fractional - lone to beryllium rescued by Raya's heroics.
Declan Rice - 6
Top consciousness to sniff retired the Atalanta information and assistance power midfield.
But squandered a large accidental to thrust Arsenal guardant erstwhile helium won the shot connected the halfway enactment and could person launched a potent counter.
Kai Havertz - 6
With Jesus starting up front, Havertz dropped into a deeper relation - but helium is perfectly comfy there, too, and tin transportation the shot forwards.
Little to amusement for his evening, though, but continued to enactment a displacement successful defensively until the last whistle.
Buakyo Saka - 6
Drew the foul from Ederson who collected an aboriginal yellowish and from the resulting free-kick astir squeezed a debased effort into bottommost country but for apical save.
Given a breather for last 20 minutes with an oculus connected Sunday.
Gabriel Jesus - 5
Captain connected the nighttime was his emblematic engaged aforesaid aboriginal connected getting himself astir but virtually each of his engagement was extracurricular the Atalanta punishment area.
Withdrawn earlier the hr mark.
Gabriel Martinelli - 4
Struggled to get successful the crippled and past erstwhile helium did get in, squandered a truly bully accidental erstwhile helium blazed over.
Definitely not hitting apical signifier truthful acold this play and whitethorn good find himself among the subs against Manchester City.
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