“Looking him played against Man City, I pray we don’t meet them in Champions League…With such player, Arsenal will easily win Champions League this season”: Vinicious says Arsenal has ONE defender who’s better than Sergio Ramos and Pepe Combined after seeing playing against Man City

Hussein3 weeks agoLast Updated: September 23, 2024

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Arsenal and Manchester City played out a thrilling 2-2 draw at the Etihad on Sunday to share the spoils in a controversial game.

In recent years, it has been the master – Pep Guardiola – against his student – Mikel Arteta – and every time, there has only been one winner.

One thing is for sure, Arsenal are getting ever so closer and their Premier League title rivals are fully aware of it and feel it.

Usually, these types of matches are tactical and more related to a game of chess, but it was far from that, with drama from the very off to the very end.

From Leandro Trossard’s red card to John Stones’ 98th-minute equalising goal, it was edge-of-your-seat action and many talking points.

Arsenal’s defence was surprisingly opened up early on, with Erling Haaland duly obliging and opening the scoring, before summer signing Riccardo Calafiori scored a goal of a lifetime to equalise.

Then Rodri went off with a knee injury and that was a psychological boost for the away team, before Gabriel Magalhaes showcased his bullying qualities again from a corner to put his side ahead.

Then disaster struck, Trossard saw a second yellow for kicking the ball away just before the break, it was the Declan Rice red card all over again, with Arteta putting his jumper over his face and reacting in disgust at the call.

It became attack v defence after that, before Manchester City finally blew the house down, but the Arsenal players were still positive after the match.

Gabriel was lauded and applauded in the comments section of his Instagram post and he stated that it was a ‘massive effort from the boys’.