Luke: Pickford is world class. Whoever Real Madrid pick between De Gea or Courtois decides where he ends up.

Tonty Blair: How many fewer points would Sunderland have still if it weren't for Pickford?

Charles: This match is Arsenal vs Pickford not Arsenal vs Sunderland.

Joseph: Pickford surely is going to leave Sunderland in the summer.  

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"After nine glorious years at City, he is the man, he is the City legend, Pablooooooo Zabaleta" 

Huge cheers greet the announcement at City as Pablo Zabaleta comes on in place of David Silva for his last home appearance.

Jordan Pickford with another two good saves to deny Granit Xhaka and Danny Welbeck. The Sunderland keeper has been superb tonight. A game-saver.

The Black Cats have taken off Lee Cattermole and brought on Lynden Gooch, which is a great name. 

Mat VP: Xhaka for all his criticism must be top three passers in the league. 

Eddie: Get in there!! And once again the Ozil-Sanchez-Axis of brilliance sees the Gunners take the lead.

Dhru Patel: Arsenal's main man comes up with the goal again when they most needed it.

Mark Lawrenson
Former Liverpool defender at Etihad Stadium

That goal is how football is meant to be. A good side who understand passing, movement and unselfishness.

Kuni: Backing a Moyes team and Everton on the weekend tells you how desperate I am to have Liverpool back in the Champions League.

Matt Wilkinson: How ironic would it be if one of the sides that are 'on the beach already' thwart Wengers and Arsenals top four charge.  

Andrew Priestley: With the correct defensive recruitment this summer City will be 2017/18 PL champions. Their MID/FWDs are the best in the league. 

Arsenal make a swap before their 12th corner for the game

Danny Welbeck and Alex Iwobi come on for Aaron Ramsey and Kieran Gibbs.

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Manchester City remain comfortable in the opening stages of the second half.

Kevin De Bruyne sends a neat cross in which forces Ben Foster to come out and parry away. 

All of a sudden, the Etihad Stadium comes to life. Pablo Zabaleta is warming up. They LOVE him. 

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Liz Tray: The balance of this team with Aguero/Jesus/Silva is so much better than Sterling/Sane. 31 goals for Sergio. He's going nowhere.

Alexander: Baggies turn up to defend from minute one, very little attacking effort. It shows - no wins since March. 

Luke: How bad is the Premier League? This Arsenal side fighting for top four? Chelsea had it as easy as Leicester last year.

Granit Xhaka sends in a long range ball over the top and Mesut Ozil is ready to pounce in the box but it just runs away from him.

Sir Trevor Brooking
Former West Ham and England midfielder at Emirates Stadium

Still scoreless. And the likes of Walcott, Welbeck and Iwobi are still warming up...

Mesut Ozil goes full-on brat for a second. 

He was booked earlier for time wasting and now he's just kicked off at Bryan Oviedo for doing the same, and in the process he kicked the ball away. 

The Arsenal man gets a talking to from Roger East but no card. 

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Back under way at the Etihad and if things stay the same tonight in both matches, then City are guaranteed Champions League football next season.

Arsenal have a free-kick - 25 yards out - and Alexis Sanchez sticks it straight at the wall.

Alexis Sanchez is shooting daggers at Arsenal team-mate Kieran Gibbs.

Mesut Ozil just placed a lovely looping ball in his path and Gibbs decided to try and get on the end of it, too. 

Who shouted 'MY BALL'? Schoolboy error. 

Kevin de Bruyne has 16 assists now this season, the most by a City player in a single season in the Premier League.

The Belgium midfielder has now been involved in 22 goals this season,  level with Gylfi Sigurdsson and Dele Alli for the most by a midfielder.

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Great delivery from Seb Larsson's free-kick! But Billy Jones can't get his head on it.

Arsenal zip forward and now John O'Shea gets a yellow card for bringing down Aaron Ramsey. 

Calm down guys. This is getting out of hand.