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Guided by their French international, Pep Guardiola’s team had the last word in the clash at the top of the English championship. The title race promises to be exciting until the end.<\/p>\n
Has the English championship changed? In a match not to be lost against its runner-up, Arsenal was stunned on Sunday at the Etihad Stadium by Manchester City (2-1), who are attacking the Premier League leader.<\/p>\n
With this victory obtained thanks to two goals from Rayan Cherki and Erling Haaland, the Mancuniens – who have a match in hand against Crystal Palace to play – are only three points behind the Londoners, with five days remaining.<\/p>\n
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In an intense match that looked like a final, the Citizens confirmed their spring resurgence, facing the Gunners who were in full doubt after already two title possibilities gone in a few weeks (League Cup and FA Cup), and a narrow qualification in the semi-final of the Champions League against Sporting Portugal.<\/p>\n
\n Also read<\/span><\/p>\n Manchester City-Arsenal: magical slalom, unstoppable strike… In video, Rayan Cherki illuminates the Premier League clash<\/span><\/p>\n While Arsenal had the opportunity last Saturday to put City on twelve points and saw their first coronation approaching since 2004, Mikel Arteta’s men were under pressure. Despite the fiery legs of a still untenable J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku on his left wing, and the talent of Frenchman Rayan Cherki, Pep Guardiola’s players nevertheless struggled to succeed in making the leader give in.<\/p>\n The fault lies with Arsenal’s defensive organization, united despite the sometimes gaping gaps opened up by the talent of the opposing individuals, but also with a huge ball from City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, who immediately revived Mikkel Arteta’s players, before turning into a savior himself.<\/p>\n Forced to win to get closer to the title, the Citizen immediately posed danger to the cages of David Raya, close to being countered by Haaland (4th), before Cherki found a post (5th). A short-lived respite: the detonator for the Mancunians, Cherki left the Gunners defenders in place in a superb slalom, before finding Raya’s small net (16th).<\/p>\n But City immediately gave up this advantage in the score, because of a big error from Donnarumma, countered by Kai Havertz (18th), who was not asking for so much to score his first goal in more than a year in the Premier League. Ever more pressing in the second period, the Citizens found the post (48th) or Raya (52nd) on their way, before trembling themselves in the face of the Gunners’ revolt.<\/p>\n Skip the ad<\/p>\n Unhappy in the first half, Donnarumma turned into a hero in the second, with a double save on Havertz and Martinelli (60th), then with a quick restart, which sowed panic in the Arsenal defense. At the end of this action, a still-opportunistic Haaland gave City the advantage (64th).<\/p>\n In a tense end to the match, where the cards rained down and where Donnarumma was saved by his post on a header from Gabriel deflected by Nico O’Reilly, the Mancuniens held on to this essential success in the title race, despite a final header from Havertz who fled the cages (90th+6).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guided by their French international, Pep Guardiola’s team had the last word in the clash at the top of the English championship. The title race promises to be exciting until the end. Has the English championship changed? In a match not to be lost against its runner-up, Arsenal was stunned on Sunday at the Etihad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Cherki and Haaland decisive<\/h2>\n
Donnarumma at fault then lucky<\/h2>\n