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ARSENAL brag Mikel Arteta masterminded different superb triumph successful the rubric contention arsenic they thrashed Manchester City connected Sunday.
The 5-1 scoreline mightiness person flattered them but it was their awesome precocious property which acceptable them connected their way.
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Here, Dean Scoggins — from SunSport’s Tactics Exposed amusement — looks astatine however Arteta’s “double press” baffled City.
DOUBLE PRESS
NOT conscionable 1 property but two.
Arteta sets up his Arsenal broadside successful a 4-4-2 signifier erstwhile they are defending, with Kai Havertz and Martin Odegaard arsenic the furthest foward.
Those 2 orchestrate and pb the press. But what Arsenal did against City, was unit the visitors to play the shot into areas wherever they were acceptable to property again.
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So aft Odegaard and Havertz artifact disconnected 1 transmission and the walk is played — Leandro Trossard, Gabriel Martinelli and Declan Rice complaint towards the subordinate astir to person the ball.
It worked perfectly arsenic Manuel Akanji was robbed for Arsenal to people their archetypal extremity — with Trossard pinching it, Rice playing to Havertz and the German mounting up Odegaard to pat successful aft 2 minutes.
Havertz should person scored different erstwhile Rice swarmed each implicit City midfielder Mateo Kovacic successful the archetypal half. It made the visitors jittery successful possession and was conscionable 1 of the battles Arteta’s broadside won.
CITY'S MISSING MEN
Man City's set-up fundamentally made it look similar it was 11v9 astatine the Emirates.
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Arsenal decided aboriginal successful the lucifer that 2 City players were not going to beryllium a menace to them.
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Matheus Nunes failed to make overmuch connected the right, adjacent erstwhile helium was fixed plentifulness of space.
Following his aboriginal mistake which resulted successful Odegaard's opening goal, the Gunners were besides blessed to fto Akanji instrumentality the shot throughout.
Mikel Arteta enjoyed each infinitesimal of Arsenal's thrashing of Man City
To Arsenal, those 2 players were not going to origin a menace oregon immoderate harm - they were astir redundant.
That made it look similar City were playing with conscionable 9 players.
As a result, the Gunners were capable to absorption much connected the likes of Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden and Erling Haaland, nullifying immoderate menace they could person produced.
SIX & THE CITY
Man City's caller set-up didn't rather enactment retired this week.
The Prem champions had six attackers but they failed to signifier Arsenal.
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City had 3 astatine the backmost with Josko Gvardiol dropping successful due to the fact that Nunes was precocious connected the right.
However, it proved to beryllium a occupation for Gvardiol - 1 of the club's champion attacking defenders - who struggled to determination past the halfway line.
As a result, Guardiola's broadside appeared to play with six midfielders astatine times which took abstraction distant from caller signing Omar Marmoush, who has looked precise promising since completing his January determination from Eintracht Frankfurt.
In contrast, Arsenal besides played with a six but done the centre with 3 pairs - an attacking duo, a midfield duo and a antiaircraft duo.
They were past capable to power and predominate a circumstantial portion of the transportation - 1 that they considered to beryllium the astir dangerous.
Man City truthful were incapable to make galore bully chances.
A SURPRISE PARTEY
Arsenal had a program - and it was Thomas Partey.
One of the midfielder's cardinal roles was simply to basal successful beforehand of Haaland, preventing the nonstop passes from Stefan Ortega.
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Partey softly had a large crippled successful midfield, stopping the shot from getting to the feet of Haaland.
As for his goal, Partey was hiding down the referee erstwhile Foden was astir to marque that walk crossed the centre.
He was subsequently capable to measurement retired and intercept the shot earlier scoring Arsenal's second.
SMILES LEWIS-SKELLY
Myles Lewis-Skelly is playing 2 positions successful 1 arsenic that inverted full-back.
He is carnal and speedy successful those antiaircraft positions but his tactical consciousness of knowing erstwhile to spell into midfield makes him basal out.
The 18-year-old knows precisely erstwhile helium needs to displacement based connected his team-mates' positioning.
His extremity came arsenic a effect of his question wrong from the left, receiving the shot from Rice earlier firing his changeable into the top-right corner.
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Arsenal subordinate ratings vs Man City
ARSENAL stunned Man City 5-1 astatine the Emirates connected Sunday evening.
It was an unthinkable effect against their rivals of caller years.
Here, we instrumentality a look astatine however the Gunners rated...
David Raya - 7/10
Had precise small to bash successful the archetypal fractional but made a superb prevention successful the 22nd infinitesimal to contradict a goalbound header from Josko Gvardiol. Made different stunning prevention 2 minutes from the half-time interval, stopping a deflected Savinho changeable from adjacent range. Powerless to halt Erling Haaland's 55th-minute header from concisely levelling the scores.
Jurrien Timber - 6
Didn't connection his accustomed attacking menace going guardant but was coagulated defensively. Picked up a pointless yellowish breaking up a harmless counter-attack successful the 24th minute. Almost scored precocious successful the 2nd half.
William Saliba - 5
Didn't person overmuch to bash successful the archetypal fractional but won each his aerial battles successful the archetypal 45 minutes. Marshalled the defence good aboriginal successful the 2nd play but was embarrassingly outjumped and outmuscled by Haaland for City's equaliser - a large flaw of his that continues to beryllium exposed.
Gabriel Magalhaes - 6
Like his antiaircraft partner, helium was seldom called into enactment successful the archetypal half. Dominant successful the aerial successful his battles with Haaland, who helium trolled aft Odegaard's goal.
Myles Lewis-Skelly - 8
Continues to endear himself to the Emirates faithful with composure and tenacity beyond his years arsenic helium brilliantly floated betwixt near backmost and midfield. Put existent daylight betwixt the 2 sides with a thumping decorativeness conscionable aft the hr mark. This young lad is simply a existent agleam imaginable for some the Gunners and England.
His trolling of Haaland by copying the Norwegian's 'Lotus' solemnisation went down a tempest with fans.
Thomas Partey - 7
Steady successful the bosom of midfield and broke up play good erstwhile required. Fired the Gunners backmost into the pb successful the 57th infinitesimal with a deflected changeable from extracurricular the box.
Martin Odegaard - 7
Was successful the close spot astatine the close clip to payment from the aftermath of an uncharacteristic Manuel Akanji mistake and interruption the deadlock. Was astatine the bosom of everything bully the northbound Londoners did going forward.
Declan Rice - 6
Combative, arsenic always, successful the mediate of the parkland and played a relation successful the location broadside taking the lead, teeing up Havertz who squared the shot to Odegaard.
Leandro Trossard - 6
Was peculiarly lively connected the near successful the archetypal half, giving Matheus Nunes a existent tally for his money. His extremity product, however, wasn't the best.
Gabriel Martinelli - 6
Lively connected the close helping successful the aboriginal goings. Found the backmost of the nett successful the 5th infinitesimal aft immoderate beauteous play from Odegaard but was needlessly offside. Forced a bully prevention retired of Ortega with a rasping effort successful the 68th minute.
Kai Havertz - 6
Lively aboriginal doors, investigating Stefan Ortega with a tame changeable successful the archetypal minute. Teed up Odegaard for a pat successful a fewer moments later. Missed a aureate accidental to treble the pb successful the 25th minute, dragging the shot wide with the extremity astatine his implicit mercy. Made amends for his howler by finishing an adjacent harder accidental successful the 76th minute. He good and genuinely needed that arsenic helium looked perfectly devoid of confidence.
SUBS
Ethan Nwaneri - 83 (on for Trossard) - 7
Put the cherry connected apical of the barroom with an outrageous effort successful second-half stoppage time.
Mikel Merino - 83 (on for Odegaard) - 5
Raheem Sterling - 89 (on for Kai Havertz ) - N/A
Riccardo Calafiori 89 (on for Lewis-Skelly) - N/A
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