Martinelli Rescues Arsenal With Late Equaliser Against Man City

Gabriel Martinelli came disconnected the seat to people a melodramatic stoppage-time equaliser, securing a 1-1 gully for Arsenal against Manchester City astatine the Emirates Stadium connected Sunday.

This marked the 2nd clip successful 5 days that Martinelli had salvaged a constituent for his squad with a superb lob that caught City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma off-guard successful the 3rd infinitesimal of added time.

Manchester City had taken the pb aboriginal successful the match, with Erling Haaland scoring conscionable 9 minutes in, prompting fears of a perchance sobering decision for Mikel Arteta’s side. City’s awesome antiaircraft show seemed poised to spot them done to triumph until Martinelli’s precocious intervention.

The gully leaves Arsenal 5 points adrift of Premier League leaders Liverpool, who person won each 5 of their matches frankincense far, portion Pep Guardiola’s City find themselves 8 points disconnected the pace.

Before Sunday’s encounter, the Gunners prided themselves connected not conceding a extremity from unfastened play this season. However, Haaland rapidly dismantled that statistic, opening the scoring conscionable 8 minutes and 31 seconds into the match. The hosts struggled to support power successful midfield arsenic Haaland rolled past defender Gabriel and acceptable up Tijjani Reijnders for a captious pass. With Arsenal’s backline stretched, William Saliba was caught successful 2 minds arsenic Haaland surged towards goal, flanked by Gabriel, Declan Rice, and Martín Zubimendi.

Reijnders delivered the walk astatine the cleanable moment, allowing Haaland to deftly interaction the shot guardant and decorativeness with precision, bringing his tally to 13 goals successful 8 matches for some City and Norway this season, arsenic good arsenic his 5th successful 7 league games against Arsenal.

In an evident jibe aimed astatine Arteta, City’s societal media relationship hailed Haaland arsenic a “Finisher,” a word the Arsenal manager had precocious utilized to commend Martinelli and Leandro Trossard for their impactful performances against Athletic Bilbao. Little did City cognize of Martinelli’s impending heroics.

As the archetypal fractional progressed, the location assemblage grew progressively anxious, peculiarly erstwhile Haaland capitalised connected sloppy defending to acceptable up Reijnders for a changeable from extracurricular the container that was expertly saved by David Raya.

Although Arsenal struggled during the opening 45 minutes, they responded good towards the extremity of the half, with Noni Madueke investigating Donnarumma with a beardown near-post effort—Arsenal’s lone changeable connected people successful the period, arsenic City maintained control.

In a bid to crook the tide aft the break, Arteta introduced Bukayo Saka, returning aft a month-long hamstring injury, alongside Eberechi Eze, replacing Madueke and Mikel Merino.