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Haaland scores 100th Manchester City goal; Calafiori levels with stunner before Gabriel heads visitors in front
Trossard gets second yellow card for kicking ball away; Stones levels in 98th minute
Rodri off injured after 21 minutes
City looking for fifth successive win, Arsenal unbeaten
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Ninety-nine minutes dripping with drama, controversy and excitement.
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Image source, Rex FeaturesFT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta speaking to Sky Sports: "Absolutely I am proud. The way the players played in the normal conditions was excellent, it was difficult, which is why they have not lost here for fourty-something games.
"Then the context that we are thrown into playing as ten men for 55 minutes. That tells you the story and the character of our players and I am extremely proud of them."
On coming so close to the win: "When you have survived that long, 97 minutes, and then it went to 99, very disappointed but I could not be prouder of my players and the way that they competed today."
Did Arsenal purposely slow the game? "That is not for me to comment."
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
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FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC MOTD: "A big compliment to Arsenal as they defended every ball until the end. We created chances, maybe not clear.
"They have Calafiori, Saliba, Gabriel, Partey and Rice -you know the commitment was so difficult.
"We did really well. They wanted to stop the game. We were patient enough. At the end we were fortunate and we tried to win in the second half.
"I admire my team. My team started well after interruptions for many things and after the first goal the referee asked the captains to talk.
"We defended really bad for the second one and they are incredible. Gabriel is so strong in that position."
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Image source, PA MediaFinally from Riccardo Calafiori, speaking to BBC MOTD: "I am so happy to have scored and I am a bit disappointed that we didn't win.
"It was so tough. We reacted really good and the second half was extremely tough, more mentally than physically."
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Image source, PA MediaFinally from Man City defender John Stones, on his instructions from Pep Guardiola: "To play close to Erling [Haaland] and get more crosses into the box. We controlled the game outside the box so well and it's so difficult to break them down when they have 10 players so close to their goal.
"The goal came from a quick corner. I tried to stay within the width of the goal. I didn't get the cleanest strike and that is sometimes how the ball goes in."
On whether he thought the game was over: "No. Prime example a few years ago against Villa [3-2 comeback] here. I think that sums it up. We have that belief we can win any game and never stop fighting."
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Paul: Today is a positive for Arsenal. Still unbeaten too. If we don’t win a title it’s not because of going away to Manchester City and drawing. If we don’t win a title it will be because of sloppy results like drawing at home to a pretty average Brighton team.
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Image source, Getty ImagesMore from Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta, speaking to Sky Sports about Jeremy Doku kicking the ball away and Leandro Trossard's red card: "It is very obvious, I don't need to talk about it. I think the red card is very clear, very obvious what people think.
"It is not my job to come here and judge what happened. My job is to survive in one of the most difficult environments there is in football for 55 minutes and try to get things done to survive.
"The rest is not my job, but it has already happened twice in five games which is very worrying to see in the best league the Premier League. "[The red card] makes the situation impossible. It is very, very hard to play with 11 players, with ten it is impossible. With ten you have to defend your six yard box time and time again."
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Image source, PA MediaErling Haaland is the first player in Premier League history to reach 10 goals in as few as five games from the start of a season in the competition.
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
More from Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: "I don't know how many [Arsenal] players went down with cramp, but that can of course happen in a demanding game.
"We crossed and crossed and had Ruben [Dias], Manuel [Akanji], Erling [Haaland] but when you cross they have Declan Rice, William Saliba, Gabriel, Riccardo Calafiori, so it is so difficult. There were ten players there. In the end we got what we deserved."
On Arsenal time-wasting: "Maybe I would have done the same because it is with ten men. You have to ask Mikel [Arteta] what the tactic was. They were good with the long balls into Kai Havertz who is so strong and they go for the second balls. In the end we were patient, had the chances and got the goal. That's all."
On Rodri: "I don't know how he is. I did not speak with the doctors."
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Neither Jurrien Timber nor Kai Havertz completed any of their passes today, the first outfield players on record (from 2003-04) to play 89+ minutes of a Premier League match and not successfully pass to a team-mate.
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Craig Smith: So proud of that defence. Heartbreaking in the end. But to salvage a point away against Manchester City, take a bow.
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta, speaking to BBC MOTD: "I am so proud of the team. We played the game in a difficult context. Playing against the best team in the world.
"After what happened we went 2-1 up - it was a different story and I prefer not to make any comment about that [Leandro Trossard's red card].
"Obviously, it is already a miracle we played 56 minutes at the Etihad with 10 men. It is unbelievable what we have done.
"It is obvious what happened when they made that decision, but it doesn't deserve my comment. I don't want to ruin anything else off the pitch."
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Julien Laurens
French football expert on BBC Radio 5 Live
Image source, PA MediaArsenal defended so deep and so much.
Ten against 11 at the Etihad against one of the greatest teams in Premier League history and they kept them so quiet.
Manchester City needed a deflected shot to score a goal.
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Simon Turner: In the bigger picture, those are points dropped by Man City but will Arsenal feel they’ve dropped points by conceding at the death? They would have been happy with a point after giving up that early goal. Football - what a game.
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Manchester City’s equaliser in the 98th minute was their latest goal scored on record (from 2006-07) in a Premier League match. It was from their 28th shot of the second half.
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Leon Osman
Former Everton and England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live
Image source, Getty ImagesWhat an afternoon of entertainment we have had.
We have had decisions go right, we have had a bit of drama and late goals - we have had it all.
We have had two managers who can embrace and be friends at the end of it. They know they'll be in the run for the Premier League race.
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Image source, Getty ImagesMore from Manchester City goalscorer John Stones, speaking to Sky Sports: "It was a difficult afternoon for both teams, how they stop the play, how they use the side of football that not many teams do. They slow the game down, they get the keeper on the floor so they can get some information onto the pitch.
"We had to control our emotions during those tough times and I felt like we did. There were a lot of tough tackles, some silly decisions but we did well."
Have Arsenal mastered the dark arts? "I wouldn't say they have mastered it but they have done it for a few years now so we knew to expect that. You can call it clever or dirty, whichever way you want to put it, but they break up the game which upsets the rhythm. They use it to their advantage and we dealt with it very well."
FT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
The return match at Emirates Stadium is more than four months away on 1 February 2025. Four months! Can't they bring it forward? That was such a good watch.
Image source, Getty ImagesFT: Man City 2-2 Arsenal
Pep Guardiola says he does not know how serious Rodri's injury is.
The influential Manchester City player was forced off in the 21st minute.
John Stones' equaliser came in the 98th minute, at the very end of a second half where Manchester City struggled to create openings against their 10-man opponents
John Stones scrambled home an equaliser seconds from time amid chaos and controversy to deny Arsenal a famous victory against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium.
Arsenal had mounted a magnificent rearguard action following the first half-dismissal of Leandro Trossard - and stood moments away from arguably the finest moment in manager Mikel Arteta's reign - until substitute Stones forced in following a well-worked short corner at the end of seven minutes of added time.
There will be pride as well as pain for the Gunners, who went behind early on to Erling Haaland’s 100th goal for Manchester City but turned a thrilling encounter on its head to lead before the interval.
In moments of huge significance, City lost talisman Rodri with a knee injury after 21 minutes, manager Pep Guardiola's mood worsening even further when Arsenal defender Riccardo Calafiori swept home an angled finish high past Ederson seconds later.
Match of the Day 2: Red card chaos & Erling Haaland 'housery'
Arsenal's set-piece expertise was in evidence again as Gabriel, in a replica of his winner at Tottenham last week, headed home a corner at the far post seconds into first-half stoppage time.
The most contentious incident came seconds before the break when Arsenal's Trossard was given a second yellow card for kicking the ball away, leaving the visitors nursing a sense of injustice after City's Jeremy Doku had escaped punishment for a similar offence.
It set the scene for a City siege after the break, but Arsenal defended with courage, resilience and organisation, aided by the heroics of goalkeeper David Raya, only to be denied right at the end - as they were on the brink of inflicting the first home Premier League defeat on the champions since Brentford won at Etihad Stadium in November 2022.
Stones' dramatic intervention means City stay top of the Premier League.
For a long time it looked like Gabriel would score the winning goal for Arsenal for the second Premier League game in a row
Arteta may have won the FA Cup against Chelsea in 2020 - but if they had survived just a matter of seconds longer in a frantic finale at Manchester City, this may just have been the best win of his managerial career.
The Gunners were simply magnificent in defence of a 2-1 lead, their task made harder by Trossard's foolish decision to effectively invite a second yellow card from referee Michael Oliver seconds before half-time when he kicked the ball away following a needless barge into Bernardo Silva.
City camped out in the Arsenal half in what became an exercise in attack against defence but, with Ben White replacing Bukayo Saka at the break as a defensive reinforcement, Arteta's team were brilliantly drilled and played without a hint of panic as the Premier League champions became ever more desperate in search of an equaliser.
Arsenal keeper David Raya was again flawless as he commanded his area and repelled all City's attacks, so it was perhaps inevitable they were only broken down amid a pile of bodies and a last-second scramble at a corner.
Arteta and his players could rightly point, as they did when Declan Rice was sent off recently for a second yellow card after kicking the ball away against Brighton, that there was inconsistency in Oliver's failure to punish Doku for doing the same thing earlier in the first half, but it was needless from the Belgian and put Arsenal under the sort of pressure they were eventually unable to resist.
Arsenal were on top, in the lead, and playing against a City side robbed of their talisman Rodri through an early injury. It left the Gunners, who had posed real attacking threat, with a backs-to-the-wall task.
What is without question is that Arsenal have once again proved, as they did when winning at Aston Villa and Tottenham, their mettle and stomach for this title fight, pushing City right to the edge and within seconds of their first win at Etihad Stadium since January 2015.
Man City 2-2 Arsenal: Pep Guardiola - 'Arsenal showed incredible commitment'
Manchester City boss Guardiola's wild animation throughout the swings of fortunes that characterised this all-action meeting of the Premier League's two superpowers said everything about its importance.
Guardiola recognises that Arsenal, and his former assistant Arteta, are the biggest threat to City claiming a fifth successive Premier League crown and was keen to strike an early psychological blow.
He pumped his fists wildly towards City's fans when intense pressure was rewarded with Haaland's clinical finish after nine minutes, the striker scoring his 100th City goal in 105 appearances from Savinho's inviting through ball.
Guardiola's joy did not last, kicking his seat in a rage when Calafiori equalised, although whether his anger was because Arsenal had stolen a march with a quick free-kick - or his players were badly caught out - was unclear.
It took all City's patience to finally make that late breakthrough when all seemed lost, Guardiola's side lacking their usual fluency without the injured Kevin de Bruyne.
City will wait anxiously to discover the extent of Rodri's injury as he appeared to twist his knee in a tangle with Thomas Partey at a corner. It was a painful experience all round for the outstanding midfield who means so much to Guardiola's side, having already been pole-axed by the shoulder of Arsenal's Kai Havertz seconds after kick-off.
This was a game that lived up to hype and expectation, with goals incident and controversy - Guardiola celebrating again when Stones pounced at the end of a game that left players, managers and fans drained.
'I am proud of the team'- Arteta
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| Position | Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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| 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
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| 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 12 |
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| 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 12 |
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| 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
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| 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 10 |
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| 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
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| 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
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| 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
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| 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
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| 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
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| 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
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| 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 6 |
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| 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 5 |
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| 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 4 |
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| 15 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 3 |
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| 16 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 3 |
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| 17 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 3 |
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| 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 1 |
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| 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 14 | -9 | 1 |
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| 20 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 14 | -9 | 1 |
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Manager: Pep Guardiola
Formation: 4 - 3 - 3
Manager: Mikel Arteta
Formation: 4 - 4 - 2
Manager: Pep Guardiola
Formation: 4 - 3 - 3
Manager: Mikel Arteta
Formation: 4 - 4 - 2
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Manchester City are unbeaten in their last nine Premier League home games against Arsenal (W7 D2) since a 2-0 defeat in January 2015.
Arsenal earned four points against Manchester City in the Premier League last season, double the amount they had from their previous 15 such meetings with the Citizens (W0 D2 L13).
Arsenal kept a clean sheet in both Premier League meetings with Man City last season, having conceded at least once in their last 16 against the Citizens beforehand (40 goals in total).
Arsenal have won 99 of their 211 meetings with Manchester City in all competitions (D47 L65). They’ve only reached triple figures for victories against Everton (111), while it’s the most defeats the Citizens have suffered against an opponent in their history.
Having won their first four Premier League games this season, Manchester City are looking to become the first team in English top-flight history to win their first five in five different campaigns, previously doing so in 1912-13, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2023-24.
Arsenal haven't trailed in any of their last 11 away league games and could become the first side in Premier League history to go 12 successive matches on the road without falling behind in any (Aston Villa – also 11 between March and November 1998).
Manchester City have won each of their last 13 Premier League games – in the competition’s history, there have only been six cases of a team winning 14+ in a row, with the Citizens (and manager Pep Guardiola) responsible for half of those (18 in 2017, 15 in 2019 and 15 in 2021).
Man City striker Erling Haaland has scored nine goals in four Premier League games this season. The fewest appearances any player has taken to reach double figures in a single campaign is six, by Mick Quinn in 1992-93 and Haaland himself in 2022-23.
Man City’s Erling Haaland has scored eight goals in his last three Premier League games, netting hat-tricks against Ipswich and West Ham, and a brace against Brentford. In Premier League history, only Luis Suárez has scored multiple goals in four consecutive appearances (hat-trick and three braces in December 2013).
Bukayo Saka has been involved in five of Arsenal’s six Premier League goals so far this season (1 goal, 4 assists), assisting a goal in all four games so far. In Premier League history, only Thierry Henry (2004-05) has provided an assist in each of a team’s first five matches in a season.
