Arsenal Vs Manchester City
Goals
from Bernardo Silva(15)David Silva(28) and Leroy Sane(33) at Emirates Stadium
extended City's lead at the top of the table to 16 points
Manchester City's victory - in Guardiola's 100th game at the club - extended their lead over second-placed Manchester United, while Arsenal stay sixth, 10 points off the top four.
Guardiola has now won 69 of his 100 games in charge of City and the first-half performance was one of the best he has overseen, although he denied it afterwards.
The football was spectacular but they also showcased their clinical finishing and have scored nine goals from just 13 shots on target against Arsenal this season.
Guardiola has won one trophy this season, has all but sealed another and will also be eyeing the club's first Champions League title.
Interestingly the Spaniard's record after 100 games in Manchester is actually worse than his starts in previous jobs with Bayern Munich and Barcelona.
City have fewer wins, more defeats, have scored fewer goals and have conceded more than Guardiola's sides in Germany and Spain.
Match Facts
Head-to-head- Manchester City have won only one of their last 32 top-flight away matches against Arsenal (D11, L20).
- Pep Guardiola's side could do the league double over Arsenal for the first time since 1975-76.
- They could become the first team to beat Arsenal three times in the same season since Chelsea in 2005-06.
- Arsenal have won just twice in their last seven Premier League fixtures (D2, L3).
- The Gunners have won only one of their eight league games this season against the other teams in the top six of the table (D3, L4).
- Only the two Manchester clubs have earned more points at home than Arsenal's total of 32 this season.
- They have failed to keep a clean sheet in each of their last nine Premier League matches - they last went 10 without a shutout back in February 2002.
- Petr Cech is one short of becoming the first goalkeeper to keep 200 Premier League clean sheets.
- Mesut Ozil has provided 49 assists in 138 Premier League appearances. If he adds to that tally in this game he will set a competition record for the fewest games taken to reach 50 assists.
- Manchester City have lost just one of their last 35 Premier League games, winning 29 and drawing five.
- City could remain winless in four consecutive Premier League away fixtures for the first time since a run of six in a row under Manuel Pellegrini from September to December 2015.
- City's tally of 72 points from 27 games is the most by an English top-flight side at this stage of the season. If they win this game, it will match Arsenal's 75-point tally from the end of last season.
- Sergio Aguero has scored in each of his last five appearances against Arsenal in all competitions - he has never scored in six games in a row against a single opponent for City.
- Aguero's next goal will be his 200th for the club in all competitions.
- Kevin De Bruyne has two goals and two assists in his last four Premier League games against Arsenal. He has provided 14 Premier League assists this season, but only two of those have come in away fixtures
Manchester City are "close" to
winning the Premier League title after comprehensively beating Arsenal
for the second time in five days, says manager Pep Guardiola.
Manchester City's victory - in Guardiola's 100th game at the club - extended their lead over second-placed Manchester United, while Arsenal stay sixth, 10 points off the top four.
Guardiola has now won 69 of his 100 games in charge of City and the first-half performance was one of the best he has overseen, although he denied it afterwards.
The football was spectacular but they also showcased their clinical finishing and have scored nine goals from just 13 shots on target against Arsenal this season.
Guardiola has won one trophy this season, has all but sealed another and will also be eyeing the club's first Champions League title.
Interestingly the Spaniard's record after 100 games in Manchester is actually worse than his starts in previous jobs with Bayern Munich and Barcelona.
City have fewer wins, more defeats, have scored fewer goals and have conceded more than Guardiola's sides in Germany and Spain.
| Guardiola's record after 100 games | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Bayern Munich | Manchester City | |
| Wins | 71 | 77 | 69 |
| Defeats | 10 | 11 | 13 |
| Goals scored | 242 | 265 | 236 |
| Goals conceded | 76 | 69 | 92 |
- Arsenal suffered their joint-heaviest home Premier League defeat, having also lost by three-goal margins to Coventry (1993), Middlesbrough (2001) and Chelsea (twice in 2009).
- Manchester City have now scored more Premier League goals this season (82) than they scored in the entirety of last season (80).
- This was Manchester City's biggest away win at Arsenal in any competition since a 4-0 triumph in November 1912.
- David Silva is only the third David to score on St David's Day in the Premier League, after David Dunn (Blackburn v Man City in 2003) and David Luiz (Chelsea v Man Utd in 2011).
- This was the first time Arsenal conceded three goals in the first half of a home league game since March 1989 against Nottingham Forest.
- Sergio Aguero has had a hand in 14 goals in his past nine Premier League starts (11 goals, three assists).
- Man City have saved 11 of the past 19 penalties they have faced in all competitions (excluding penalty shootouts), with Ederson saving three of the five he has faced this season, including both in the Premier League (also against Crystal Palace).
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