Alan Shearer has credited Erling Haaland and Kevin de Bruyne for helping Manchester City tear Arsenal apart last night.
Before the game, Arsenal had been warned about the improving partnership between both players and the Gunners had to do all they could to stop them from causing damage.
Whatever plans Mikel Arteta had before the game did not work, with De Bruyne scoring twice and Haaland putting the icing on the cake in the 4-1 win.
Shearer believes both City men bullied the Arsenal defence into submission in the fixture.
He said via The Daily Mail:
‘They were unplayable tonight, they bullied the two centre-halves, Gabriel and Rob Holding.
‘Every time the ball went up, their understanding to know when, how and where to run, the timing and then the finish.
‘They were never too far from each other. De Bruyne was always within five, ten yards of Haaland.
‘It was a magnificent performance from start to finish from Man City, they totally dominated every position. Some of the play tonight was absolutely magnificent.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Haaland and De Bruyne were superb in that game and were clearly unplayable, which is an important reason City won.
The champions showed there is so much difference between both clubs now and we must learn from them and recruit some very good players at the end of this season if we want to challenge for the league crown again.
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Thanks Alan for that insight ,I doubt any Arsenal fan saw it themselves .
What Artetas tactics do, is isolate players against opposition players when defending. We should be defending in twos and threes, thats why at times when our play breaks down, we look like softies.
Pep knows his pal inside out and just rubs his nose in it. City usually find it easy going against us. Yes city are a great team but they just muller us.
Yes, Arsenal has young players to groom but before Man City, they were unprepared. 4:1 at the end and loss of three points. The question: Why did Brentford defeat the Cityzens? What introductions saved Arsenal from 2 goals down to draws? Why did Arsenal begin to drop points at the top of the table when they should have had at least 14 points ahead of their match with Man City at Etihad? Why can we not start Saka, Martinelli, Jesus, Odegaard, Jorginho, Trossard, Thierney, Zinchenko, Nketiah, Nelson and Ramsdale in a game? Our coaching crew should experiment on creating riot on the opponents with this combination and find the outcome. We must not be too predictable! Thanks we have sealed our Champions position next season.
No shit Sherlock.