Arsenal 5 Man City 1: Gunners close Liverpool gap to 6 points in spiky showdown as visitors open top-4 door to Chelsea

ARSENAL firepower blew distant Manchester City during a hotly contested crippled astatine the Emirates.

Martin Odegaard retired the hosts up aft 3 minutes arsenic Gabriel reignited his feud with Erling Haaland.

Haaland deed backmost for the visitors aft the interruption with a astute header backmost crossed extremity arsenic helium ghosted successful beforehand of William Saliba.

But the location side's pb was restored aft 38 seconds erstwhile Thomas Partey's changeable took a wicked deflection of John Stones to find the broadside netting.

Myles Lewis-Skelly past earned his ain revenge connected Haaland from the reverse fixture astatine the Etihad by scoring a stunning extremity earlier doing the striker's signature celebration.

Kai Havertz completed the rout successful the 76th infinitesimal arsenic helium made up for a fearfulness archetypal fractional miss.

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