Vastly better for Arsenal to win. Couldn't give two figs about them. City is our rival.Arsenal would have been insufferable if they'd held on, and didn't deserve it with about 8 fake injuries/cynical delays.
But then City we all know are a loathsome machine.
However, neither winning is good.
Sooooo any retro action for that city player whoever it was that threw the ball at the Arsenal player's head after the equalizer?
He cleared the ball away half a second after the ref blew for a free kick. It was a very harsh second yellow.
We also maintained the gap to first. Not too bad.The scousers come out as winners this weekend
Richards trying his best to hype up Arsenal and Keane telling things as they are.Keane winding Richards up his hilarious.
AgreedGreat drama but not a great game
Ref was a disaster. Haaland threw the ball at an Arsenal player's head after City 2nd goal - that should be a yellow card if the Arsenal player booting the ball up seconds after the ref blew his whistle and "delaying" the game for 1-2 seconds was a yellow. And he made a whole bunch of other mistakes.
YesDid the ghoul really get sent off for time wasting in the first half?
How many other times did it happen in this match? It was obvious what he did.He cleared the ball away half a second after the ref blew for a free kick. It was a very harsh second yellow.
Keane having none of it
That was definitely not the game plan. Arsenal closed down everyone else pretty quickly and left Dias with time on the ball for a reason. I do agree on City not stretching the pitch. It's unusual considering that's how they score most of their goals anyway.Keane is bang on. That second half from city was shocking. The basics of playing against 10 men is make the pitch as big as possible - they literally camped 8 players in the Arsenal box - just standing there - every fecking attack. The entire game plan was cut back to Dias on the edge of the box - I’ve never seen anything like it!
As opposed to Manchester City winning it for the one billionth time? I'll take Arsenal all day every day thank you very much.
Feel a bit for Arsenal (the team not the fans). Paid the price for their cowardice despite deserving more for the players effort.
Exactly why they'll always come up short for the big trophies under Arteta.
Showed lots of heart but manager cost them by inviting too much pressure.
Fecking brilliant
It’s 5 games in? We’re probably about 7 points off the top if you want to study the table at this stage. Ridiculous they even show it.11th place. Feck me, we are still shite.
Even if city are thrown out of the league, Liverpool will beat you to the title cause Arteta is afraid of his shadow away from home.
No, I'm pretty sure we'll always come up short because we're competing against an oil state with almost limitless resources masquerading as a football club
Doku did it a few minutes prior and that incident justified a yellow card more than the Trossard one as there was a longer gap between the ref blowing for a free kick and Doku kicking it away.How many other times did it happen in this match? It was obvious what he did.
You calm downI don't know what people were watching today. Everybody seems so excited but it was just a normal game. Nothing special. Some pundits and media talk like this game is best thing that happened since Internet. Calm down.
Absolutely.Refs have no ability to manage a game…they have to figure this out, it’s becoming too common
Did you watch the game or not? It was the first time grealish actually ran at a defender and something came from it. Until then they were passing very slowly around the 18 yard box, shooting over from 25 yards, then repeating.So do exactly the same as they were doing for basically the whole match but this time the deflection dropped for them? You are a genius.
Coverage was all over the place. All we got were ooooooo's from Neville and Cara
Damn it! Love some fightingI don't know because they didn't show it But to make it more annoying Carragher and Neville were making it sound like it was kicking off but the cameras didn't cut to it at all.