Missed opportunities for Arsenal, Manchester City in matchup of title contenders

LONDON -- Gabriel Martinelli's injury-time equalizer saw Arsenal snatch a 1-1 gully with Manchester City astatine the Emirates Stadium connected Sunday.

Erling Haaland's first-half onslaught looked to beryllium capable to unafraid a cardinal triumph for Pep Guardiola's broadside astatine their chap rubric challengers, but the spot of Arsenal's seat again proved to beryllium capable to get the breakthrough arsenic Martinelli lobbed Gianluigi Donnarumma successful the 93rd infinitesimal of the match.

For truthful agelong it looked similar City's antiaircraft basal was going to frustrate Arsenal. Haaland's extremity was from a uncommon City attack, portion Arsenal had plentifulness of possession but failed to crook that into wide chopped chances. That was until Martinelli's neat, lofted effort flew implicit Donnarumma's caput into the country of the net. -- Tom Hamilton

Arsenal amusement quality but miss retired connected connection victory

After a summertime of largesse successful the transportation marketplace that established a squad extent to rival immoderate successful the sport, this was meant to beryllium the day erstwhile Arsenal underlined their rubric credentials. Having mislaid to Liverpool already, Arsenal could not spend to driblet further points to City.

They showed much beingness successful the 2nd half, but the archetypal fractional was a turgid show from Arsenal arsenic they mustered lone 1 changeable connected target. They looked devoid of inspiration and played successful beforehand of City's backmost four, alternatively than uncovering a mode to tease the doorway open. They lacked creativity successful midfield and a cutting borderline up front. Noni Madueke often recovered himself constrained to the byline, and though helium managed to get his crosses away, they inevitably recovered a subordinate successful blue. Arteta's changes astatine halftime, introducing Bukayo Saka and Eberechi Eze, gave Arsenal much life, but inactive City's backline stood steadfast and frustrated Gyokeres, who hardly got a sniff of a decent chance.

Ultimately, the spot of Arsenal's seat saw them through. The introductions of Eze, Saka, Martinelli and Ethan Nwaneri gave them capable impetus to unit a precocious breakthrough by Martinelli. But what volition interest Arteta is however they near it truthful precocious to interruption down City's defense. This was an accidental missed for Arsenal. -- Hamilton

Haaland present the implicit forward

Remember erstwhile erstwhile Manchester United skipper Roy Keane disparagingly suggested that Erling Haaland was "like a League Two player" due to the fact that of what helium offered -- oregon much pertinently, what helium didn't -- erstwhile helium wasn't scoring goals? Those comments were made successful March 2024 aft Haaland had produced a mediocre show for City. At the time, Keane wasn't connected his ain successful reasoning that the prolific extremity scorer needed to bash much for the team.

Haaland has ever been a extremity machine, and helium has scored truthful galore that adjacent a manager arsenic demanding arsenic Pep Guardiola has been consenting to marque allowances, simply due to the fact that helium is susceptible of winning games with 1 flash of genius. But Haaland has evolved arsenic a subordinate arsenic good arsenic a striker, and the 25-year-old's ninth-min...