Erling Haaland sends Premier League title message to Arsenal rival after Man City thrashing

Manchester City were brought down to world by Arsenal connected Sunday day but City striker Erling Haaland sent a reminder to the winners aft the last whistle

After an day of mockery, Erling Haaland yet spot back.

The Manchester City prima was hounded by Arsenal players passim the Gunners' broad victory connected Sunday - helium scored City's extremity successful a 5-1 decision - but managed to marque his constituent astatine full-time.

The Norway planetary led City to the Treble successful his archetypal play and helped Pep Guardiola's broadside clasp their league rubric past term. It volition instrumentality a occurrence for him to marque it 3 successful a row, though, with City present 15 points adrift of league leaders Liverpool.

Haaland was locked successful a idiosyncratic conflict with Arsenal centre-back Gabriel connected Sunday, but escaped the clutches of the Brazilian to caput City level with 35 minutes to play. However, Arsenal were the ones celebrating astatine full-time with Mikel Arteta's broadside inactive successful the rubric race.

They haven't won a league rubric nether Arteta yet though, and Haaland was speedy to punctual them - and possibly Gabriel successful peculiar - of the fact.

As the Brazilian had 1 last excavation aft the last whistle, Haaland couldn't defy pointing to his golden Premier League badge - symbolising that helium plays for the champions - and that Arsenal's players cannot accidental the aforesaid astir themselves.

City person present conceded 35 goals successful the league, much than they fto successful passim the full 2023-24 season. Their antiaircraft struggles person harmed them successful Europe arsenic well, with a play-off against Real Madrid their punishment for a lowly Champions League points return, and manager Guardiola made his feelings clear.

"I regret the past 15/20 minutes, the remainder was a truly bully crippled for our side," Guardiola told the BBC. "It's hard to recognize erstwhile you spot the effect but this is my feeling.

"It's happened each season, we are giving distant excessively galore things, we are alert this cannot happen, it happened. But we reacted truly good and we played with property and we defended truthful bully and past with the shot we were a menace but unluckily aft the 2nd happened, again galore times we had the momentum. For the deflection and successful different situations we conceded the goals."

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Arsenal's triumph owed a large woody to Myles Lewis-Skelly, who started astatine left-back aft his reddish paper from the triumph against Wolves was overturned. The teen locked horns with Haaland successful the reverse fixture - a crippled which happened to besides beryllium his Premier League debut - and helium came successful for praise from Gunners brag Mikel Arteta aft the game.

"You request large idiosyncratic performances to bushed [Manchester City]," Arteta told Sky Sports. "Myles was surely 1 of them, the maturity helium showed and competitiveness arsenic well. He plays with that property and he's scored a beauteous goal.

"He has been pushing america since helium has been with us. We similar his quality and personality. He has truthful overmuch courage. He has qualities that acceptable into the mode we privation to play. He got immoderate minutes and helium is asking for more. He deserves to play."

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