It was Manchester City who moves up to the second place in the Premier League table as it defeated Arsenal in its second successive game. The Etihad Stadium was full packed with supporters of both the teams enjoying a thrilling match. Alexis Sanchez’s pass was comfortably converted to a cool fifth-minute finish by Theo Walcott and puts the Gunners in control at the interval however the second half brought just a similar painful fate for manager Arsene Wenger and his players.
The city was completely on a roll and was in a different form altogether where the winner coming 19 minutes from time when Raheem Sterling was the beneficiary of Kevin de Bruyne’s brilliant pass to arrow a low finish past Cech at his near post. The city was always in the game since the beginning of the match and the second half goals from Leroy Sane and Raheem stunned Arsenal on Sunday. Now, Manchester City has come from behind to win 2-1 and move seven points behind leaders Chelsea.
City came out for the second half of the game completely transformed and it was evident from the way they were playing. They were hitting back almost immediately as David Silva found Sane with a precision pass that allowed the German to score his first goal since his 46 million pounds ($57.49 million) move from Schalke.
Pep Guardiola said Arsenal was lucky to survive first half against Man City. He was rather sure that his side has all the capability to pull a win out of the bag at home. He said after the game “I didn’t say anything to them at half time.” “I told them not to think about the score, I told them to keep going. Arsenals were lucky in the first half.
“It was similar to the game against Chelsea – then we played well and lost and today we won. “The guys give everything in every game. I’m happy to be City coach. In terms of spirit, it’s always there.
“We liked to play today but it’s not easy because of high pressing from Arsenal and they defend compact. “When we have some of our players back we will hopefully score more goals.”
Raheem Sterling said, “It was good to get on the score sheet,””We stayed in the game and got the winner.”
With this result, Arsenal is dropped to fourth place.
