Arsenal v Manchester City: The Opposition

Manchester City takes a trip to northern London and a confrontation at the start of the season with the contenders for the Arsenal title at the Emirates Stadium. Freshly beating of Manchester United and Napoli, City will imagine its chances of the Gunners, which are third in the Premier League table, but also need the points to follow the pace of Liverpool leaders.

After Thursday’s victory against Napoli, manager Pep Guardiola said his team “ was going to hike. ”

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But the blues will have to be on their guard at the Emirates Stadium if they want to avoid another beat in the hands of Mikel Arteta. City lost 5-1 at Arsenal last season and the Blues will be impatient to avoid another heavy defeat against a title rival.

Form

Arsenal entered the match in third place in the Premier League, after winning three and lost one of his four opening games. They started the season with a 1-0 victory in United, then beat the new boys Leeds United 5-0 at the Emirates a week later.

Arsenal went to Liverpool before the international break and lost 1-0, but returned to the Premier League by beating Nottingham Forest 3-0 at home.

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The Gunners experienced a mixed pre-season, winning three and losing two of their warm-up matches, including a 1-0 defeat against the bitter rivals. They have scored 8 goals at home and have not yet conceded the opposition to the Emirates so far this season. Arsenal is the third highest scorers with new, but have the tightest defense, conceding a single goal so far in the Premier League and in the Champions League.

Danger of men and new signatures

Arsenal was very active in the transfer market this summer, signing the Swedish striker Viktor Gyoking of Sporting for 55 million pounds Sterling, Martin Zubimenddi of Real Sociedad, also for 55 million pounds Sterling, Christian Nordgaard for 10 million pounds Sterling by Brentford, Christian Mosquera for £ 13m.

The Gunners also denounced 49 million pounds sterling on the winger Noni Madueke and 60 million pounds Sterling on Ebelechi Eze de Crystal Palace. Blues fans will not have good memories of Eze, who marked the winner in the FA Cup final. And while Aek, if he plays, will be a player that the city will have to stop, they will also have to look at Gyokerres like a hawk.

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The Swedish star has already scored three goals on four games and had seven shots on goal, giving him a goal conversion rate of 43%. Jurrien Timber also weighed with two goals of four games, just like Zubimendi.

Riccardo Calafiori is the man to stop helping. The Italian has obtained two in four games and has tried 103 passes so far, with 88 completed, giving it a precision note of 85%. Timber has a decisive pass but has a better precision of 89% pass and Leandro Trossard also has a help in his name.

The boss

Mikel Arteta is always the man in charge of returning the right times to Arsenal. Now in his sixth season with the Gunners, Arteta will be under pressure to deliver the title of Premier League after a series of quasi-rare, finally losing against City and Liverpool. Its only success so far is a victory for the FA Cup in its first season at the Stadium Emirates and two victories on the community shield in 202o and 2023.

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Since leaving City, Arteta has supervised 295 Arsenal games, winning 173 and losing 55, giving it a 59%victories ratio.

Last time

It was not a day to remember for City because they lost 5-1 against Arsenal in February. Martin Odegaard had put the artillerymen before two minutes, but Erling Haaland equalized ten minutes in the second half. Thomas Partey restored the advance of the local team a minute later, then added three others to city day and summarizes their season.