Manchester City are stumbling and Arsenal are a cannon clearing

Manchester City are stumbling and Arsenal are a cannon clearing them by seven points

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They’re not the invincibles of 2004, but this arsenal is on the way to writing a glorious page for the London club. Few dare shout it, the team have been laying foundations for three years but are also so inexperienced that out of the 20, 11 with the youngest average age to start in the Premier League this season are 12 Arteta lineups are located . It appears to be still under construction, but still doesn’t stop accumulating points and seems immune to the mounting pressure. Arsenal jumped into the Amex Stadium in Brighton in a character test late in the afternoon after learning their pursuers Manchester City and Newcastle had barely gained a point in their home games against Everton and Leeds. And the Gunners drew their guns: Saka scored in the first minute and completed the win (2-4) Ödegaard, who ruled the game with the silk of his left foot, Nketiah and Martinelli. Arsenal now lead the table by seven points over Manchester City and nine over Newcastle.

M. City

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Ederson Moraes, Manuel Akanji, John Stones, Aké, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Rico Lewis, Bernardo Silva (Julián Álvarez, min. 87), Erling Braut Haaland, Mahrez and Grealish (Foden, min. 86)

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everton

Jordan Pickford, Mykolenko, Patterson (Coleman, min 69), James Tarkowski, Coady, Ben Godfrey (Doucouré, min 91), Amadou Onana, Idrissa Gueye (Thomas Davies, min 77), Alex Iwobi, Gray and Calvert- Lewin (Neal Maupay, min. 69)

Gates 1-0 min 24: Erling Braut Haaland. 1-1 min. 64: Gray.

referee Andy Madeley

Yellow cards Bernardo Silva (min. 16), De Bruyne (min. 29), Patterson (min. 32), James Tarkowski (min. 44), Amadou Onana (min. 62) and Neal Maupay (100 . minutes)

The two most important footballers in the Premier League were not used at the last World Cup. They are Norwegian and are expected against Spain in the debut of Luis de la Fuente, who leads the team on the first date to get the Eurocup ticket. Haaland commands excess with a mixture of exuberance and precision. Against Everton he scored his twenty-first goal in the Premier League, where he averages a goal every 59 minutes. In the Champions League, he lowers this average by nine minutes. Odegaard is already Arsenal’s top scorer with seven goals, but above all he is the side’s delightful setter of the game, who also wore the captain’s stripes when he just turned 24.

That day, without ceasing to be in the spotlight, the Viking couple had a face and a tail. Fifteen seconds into the game, Haaland went down after a jump with Everton centre-back Ben Godfrey. The shoe on his left foot was thrown off and his ankle hobbled. Guardiola sent Foden and Julián Álvarez to training while deciding whether the Norwegian giants could stay on the pitch. He did, but became overexcited, which led to confusion. He aimed at goal with an almost angleless shot that went to the side of the net and he celebrated it after a low cross from Mahrez that created space between Everton’s jumble of defences. But Haaland ended vaguely in a game that went mad, in which City’s rival managed to slow down at times and take refuge in stoppages to stay alive and wait for football, which is always not too is decipherable, gives it a price. Everton played the lottery, buying shares next to one goal and singing the jackpot (1-1) at the other, in their only offensive outing that culminated in a Demarai Gray shot that lined the side from the top of the box.

The tie came almost throughout the second half and City came alive to put on their usual offensive display that was overwhelming in the final moments of the game. But Everton holed up around Pickford, the England team’s cat goal, a guarantee as a crack in the wall opened. Stones had hit the post, Grealish tired of taking shots blocked by defence, Haaland struggled against the world without touching the ball, Guardiola crawled onto the bench and found, perhaps too late, Julián Álvarez, Gündogan and especially , to Foden. Rodri eventually had the last goal in the 112th minute. But City, who had already lost to Etihad in the previous game, stumbled again at home. Now the calendar points to back-to-back trips to Stamford Bridge and Old Trafford. Guardiola was only dissatisfied with the result: “We played very well. We did everything to win.”

At Brighton, where things have not been easy for Arsenal, Odegaard was captain-general in a test of the maturity of the Premier League leaders, who appeared to settle the game in a 3-0 deficit early in the second half but found himself in trouble with a goal from the indomitable Japanese Mitoma and half an hour to play. The locals tried hard, had the ball and generated options to cut even more distances on the scoreboard, but one of them saw Arsenal weave a counterattack, with Odegaard taking a monumental pass into space for Martinellli to define against Robert Sánchez . nothing is over Brighton closed again and even celebrated a third which saw the VAR find an unlikely offside. They squeezed Arsenal, who stayed on his feet.

Manchester United are also looking bright as they build their own solidity. In Wolverhampton he won (0-1) his second game in a row after saying goodbye to Cristiano Ronaldo, who had not counted towards victory before the break at Fulham’s home ground. Throughout the season, the team hasn’t been in the top four, but 2023 starts from a Champions League position and is waiting to see what Tottenham will do in the game against Aston Villa in London.

Coach Erik Ten Hag seems to have the reins in hand. In the Fief of Wolves, he initially relinquished Rashford amid public surprise. “Internal disciplinary reasons,” he warned. The striker then explained that he was late for training because the sheets were sticking to him. Ten Hag gave him the stick and eventually pulled out the carrot. Rashford came on after the break and scored the winning goal. Then the coach emphasized the collective nature of his vision of football, which does not include Cristiano Ronaldo. “If we’re difficult to win, it’s because we’re eleven in attack and eleven in defense.” They’ve only lost in one of the last nine days. But Arsenal are eleven points away and Ten Hag doesn’t expect many mistakes from the Londoners. “If we want to be at the top, we have to win everything,” he says. In fact, few today can imagine how a seemingly indestructible team could collapse.

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