A focus battle in the 21st round of the Premier League began, Arsenal played at home against the leader Manchester City, after a full game of competition, Manchester City completed the kill and reversal, 2-1 win, won 11 consecutive league games, beat the Gunners for 5 consecutive times, and set 2 records. The result of this game is good news for Manchester United, with 4 points behind Manchester United seeing hope of entering the top four with two fewer games than Arsenal, which is also good news for Cristiano Ronaldo. Arsenal have created shame, having been unable to beat Manchester City in the league for six consecutive years.
In the first 20 rounds of the Premier League this season, Guardiola's Manchester City took 50 points, 8 points ahead of Chelsea and top the league table. Arsenal also performed well, scoring 35 points in 19 games, ranking 4th in the league. Prior to this game, Manchester City were full of momentum, winning 10 consecutive league games, of course, the Gunners were in good shape, winning five consecutive games in all competitions, including four consecutive league wins.
Manchester City are Arsenal's nemesis, with the Blue Moon winning all four of their last four games against the Gunners. Arsenal's last league win was back in 2015. In the 30th minute, Arsenal broke the deadlock on the field, Tierney sent a cross from the left, Saka grabbed the point in front of the goal, the score came 1-0, the Gunners took the lead, and the team coached by Guardiola needed to fight backwater.
In the first half, Arsenal had 32% possession, but the efficiency was very high, the number of shots on goal was 5, and the number of shots was 2, while Manchester City, although Guardiola's team sat on 68% of the possession, but only 4 shots on goal, of which the number of shots on target was 0. It has to be said that the Gunners played better in the first half.
In the 53rd minute of the match, Xhaka brought down Bernardo Silva in the penalty area and the referee watched the VAR replay for himself before giving City a penalty. Xhaka also received a yellow card, and he was dissatisfied with the penalty and went to the referee to protest. In the 57th minute, Mahrez scored a penalty and the score came to 1-1, the camera turned to Guardiola, and the Manchester city manager was not very happy.
City had just scored, the performance of the team's backline made Guardiola scratch his head, 40 seconds after Mahrez scored, Laporte almost swung himself in front of the goal, and Acker broke the siege on the goal line. Dramatically, City attacked in front of the field, gabriel then fouled Jesus, received a red card directly, and was sent off. The Arsenal players were not satisfied with the penalty and surrounded the referee. Within 1 minute, the situation on the field was very exciting.
In the 80th minute, City continued to besiege their opponents, and Canselo scored a left-footed arcing shot from outside the box, but unfortunately hit the ball high. In the 87th minute, Mahrez got a chance in the box, but unfortunately his right-footed push was blocked off the line, in the 93rd minute of the game, Manchester City completed the kill, Rodri pushed in front of the goal to break the goal, Guardiola raised his arm to celebrate, very happy, the score was fixed at 2-1!