In recent times, not too often Arsenal have had the upper hand versus Pep’s City. Given City’s inconsistency early on in the season with their solitary win from 3 games coming against Wolves, City are not too high on confidence and have been a poor reflection of themselves from their previous seasons. The loss against Leicester was embarrassing with their defenders leaking out as many as 3 penalties and Pep’s emphasis on improving the defence continuously somewhat seems justified as City spent over 100m euros only on defenders this season.
Arsenal on the other hand have looked like a well oiled machine with all their new recruits, Arsenal and Gabriel fitting in the team in no time. Their only loss came against the defending champions, Liverpool. Arsenal will look to carry the momentum from their previous win against Sheffield United. What’s more encouraging for Arsenal is that apart from their club captain and prolific goalscorer being among goals, their other stars have stepped in time to provide the goals whenever the Gabon International was silent.
City are languishing at 14th place while Arsenal sit comfortably on 4th. Its still early days in the season but any further slip ups will cost dearly in their title hopes and Pep wouldn’t surely want that given his side had one of the busiest summer transfer windows. The match can go either ways and we just have to wait and watch in which favour this tie goes
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