David Hytner was at the Etihad tonight, and his report has landed. Here it is! Thanks for reading this MBM. Nighty night.
Mikel Arteta, humble but defiant, talks to BT. “We were beaten by the better team, that’s for sure … they were exceptional today … we were nowhere near our level, and when you open that gap you get punished … you have to win your duels, and we didn’t do it, we were punished and could have been even more punished … we conceded from our own throw an open goal … that’s very difficult … they were on top of us … we could not handle that situation … they were extremely direct and had the capacity to do it … today is a difficult night after the way we lost … we have to stand up and look at the bigger picture … the fact we are standing toe to toe with this team is incredible to be fair … we are not going to give up … there are five games to go and anything can happen … I have seen a lot of things, I have been here 20 years … you have to believe … you have to accept we have lost against an exceptional team, and that’s the level.”
Pep Guardiola speaks to BT Sport. “Erling is an incredible threat … in a previous season with a false nine we played very different … but his connection with Kevin is extraordinary and we tried today to use it as much as possible … from the first minute we had incredible focus … every game we try to win and move forward … the next three games are really important … Fulham on Sunday, what Marco Silva has done is unbelievable … after two games at home against West Ham and Leeds, these three games will dictate … the reality is we are behind Arsenal, they are two points in front of us … game by game, we will see what happens.”
John Stones speaks to BT … “I wouldn’t say we were in total control … we have to give them respect … we didn’t play the football we normally do … it was very difficult to play our usual passes … but our desire ... we could have had a few more … everyone’s got that hunger … there is a lot of pressure from the outside … but we know our jobs.”
… as does Kevin De Bruyne. “When they play man to man, we had to go a little bit longer … we could have scored more … luckily the second goal isn’t offside and it changed the game … in the second half it was probably 50-50 but we didn’t give much away … they are a class team and very hard to play against … we had to be at our best today and I think we were … we know what people will say, but it is still seven games … I know we have games in hand but we are still behind them … we will not give in until it cannot mathematically be done … our schedule is hectic and there is a lot of things going on.”
… so Manchester City complete the double over Arsenal and nudge one step closer to the treble! That’s a statement victory all right, and one which puts the destiny of the Premier League in their own hands. Seven successive league wins for City: 21 points from 21. Arsenal by contrast have just taken three from the last 12 available. And if this doesn’t make grim reading for Arsenal …
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Arsenal | 33 | 40 | 75 |
| 2 | Man City | 31 | 53 | 73 |
| 3 | Newcastle | 31 | 29 | 59 |
… they could be playing catch-up when they next pull on their boots. City go to Fulham on Sunday, and a win would take the defending champions top with a game in hand. Arsenal are permitted some succour, though: their next fixture is at home to Chelsea, who lost at home to Brentford tonight, their fifth straight defeat in all competitions. Not a bad opportunity to get back on the horse and get up and running again in the title race.
FULL TIME: Manchester City 4-1 Arsenal
The whistle goes. Guardiola and Arteta shake hands in friendly fashion. White fancies starting a brouhaha, though, and things nearly kick off yet again. Haaland is quickly across to act as bodyguard to his team-mates, and everyone calms down. City get on with celebrating. Arsenal walk off seething.
GOAL! Manchester City 4-1 Arsenal (Haaland 90+5)
Haaland notches number 49 this evening! Pulitzer, please! Arsenal fail to deal with a long ball forward. Foden brings it down and lays off to Haaland, who passes the ball into the bottom-left corner with that blond mane trailing behind in the night air.
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90 min +4: Nketiah runs at Stones down the left but there’s no way through. Then Mahrez dispossesses Zinchenko on the halfway line. He can’t find Haaland, who doesn’t look like notching number 49 this evening and decides to literally let his hair down. Off comes the band, and the locks flow.
90 min +2: On BT Sport, Lucy Ward names Kevin De Bruyne as her player of the match.
90 min: There will be five additional minutes.
89 min: Partey wrestles Haaland to the floor out on the City left. No second yellow … but Michael Oliver has a word or two with the Arsenal midfielder. Those words: “Be careful.”
88 min: Rodri is booked for dragging back Trossard. All of a sudden, the City fans are a little bit nervous, as everyone recalls how Arsenal finished their match against Southampton last Friday!
87 min: Foden comes on for Grealish.
GOAL! Manchester City 3-1 Arsenal (Holding 86)
… but not Nelson! He bursts down the right and wins a corner off Akanji. Trossard swings it in. It doesn’t beat the first man and is half cleared. But Trossard comes in from the right, dances across the face of the box, and the ball breaks to Holding, who opens his body and slams what is surely a consolation into the top right!
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85 min: A sense now that both teams would happily declare.
83 min: Arsenal stroke it around the back sheepishly. City aren’t of a mood to press … and it nearly costs them, as Nelson steps up the pace down the middle, then lays off to Nketiah on the left. Nketiah flashes a shot-cum cross through the six-yard box. Not too far away from the bottom-left corner, but Ederson lets it fly out for a goal kick.
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81 min: Arsenal make two changes, swapping out Jesus and Saka for Nelson and Nketiah. As Jesus makes his way around the pitch and back to the bench, he’s given a warm round of applause by his former fans. A sweet touch.
80 min: After some interminable faff, Saka takes aim for the top-left corner. Always wide, always high. Then City replace the two-goal hero De Bruyne with Alvarez.
78 min: Grealish and Akanji combine crisply down the left. Arsenal eventually crowd them out and clear. Arsenal counter through Saka, who passes infield only for Rodri to block with his arm. Free kick just to the right of the D. Ederson might be put to work at last.
76 min: … and now Partey and Grealish rut like stags. Grealish with a late shoulder charge, Partey with a shove in the chest, Grealish nearly taking it up a notch by gathering some of Paretey’s shirt in his fist. They’re broken up, then booked. Arsenal could really do with hearing the full-time whistle and getting back home to regroup.
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74 min: White comes flying in on Haaland and is fairly lucky that the big striker is so agile. Haaland evades the challenge. It would have been interesting to see what the referee would have done had contact been made … and now White clips Grealish’s ankles! It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that an Arsenal player may lose the head here. Xhaka’s already come mighty close.
72 min: Both teams make a change. Gundogan is replaced by Mahrez – who is coming off a hat-trick – while Odegaard makes way for Smith Rowe.
70 min: The City supporters counter with some hollering of their own.
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68 min: Nothing much doing on the pitch. Arsenal’s fans launch into defiant song.
66 min: Gabriel slams an attempted clearance straight at De Bruyne, and is very fortunate the ricochet doesn’t give the City midfielder the chance to romp forward yet again. Arsenal’s heads are swimming right now.
64 min: Haaland wants a goal, that’s for sure, and his hustle wins the ball in the midfield. He slips Grealish into space down the left. Grealish rolls across for Gundogan, who leans back and lofts an appalling shot miles wide and high. Breaking news: Manchester City are not perfect.
62 min: City allow Arsenal some possession, but the visitors are completely stunned by the way they’ve been worked over tonight. They’ll surely do well to get out of Dodge tonight without any further damage to their goal difference and their morale.
60 min: Xhaka was trying it on there, the red mist fully descended, some unnecessary aggression. His manager, perhaps sensing how this story will inevitably pan out, replaces him with Jorginho, and swaps Martinelli for Trossard as well.
58 min: The corner flies in and Ederson is shoved to the floor. Free kick, and the pressure, such as it was, is released. As the players funnel back upfield, Xhaka throws an ostensibly friendly arm around Grealish’s shoulder, only to keep hold too long, too tight. Grealish throws him off, and just for a second it looks like hands may be thrown. The referee calms everyone down.
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57 min: Jesus, who has been very quiet tonight, tries to burst down the left flank and gets a finger in the eye from Stones for his trouble. A free kick that Odegaard swings into the mixer. There’s an awful rumble. Zinchenko shoots. The ball hits the top of Haaland’s arm, but it’s right by his body, and perhaps on the sleeve as well. Holding then shoots. Deflected over. VAR has a wee check for the penalty shout, but there’s nothing doing. The correct decision.
55 min: The game doesn’t start immediately because Ramsdale needs some attention to his shoulder. The fans entertain themselves with the Poznan. “We’re not really here,” they trill. It’s party time already.
GOAL! Manchester City 3-0 Arsenal (De Bruyne 54)
Haaland snaffles possession in the middle of the park and steams off down the middle. He slips left to De Bruyne, who enters the box down the channel, opens his body and steers a careful sidefoot into the bottom right. Easy as that! This game is over. The title as well?
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53 min: Once again, Haaland is sent clear down the middle. Once again, the net doesn’t bulge, as Ramsdale saves with his feet. Not that it really matters, though, because City come again, and …
51 min: We’ve quickly slipped back into the rhythms of the first half. City are in calm control. Arsenal are struggling to get involved in any meaningful sense. “This is not meant as a suggestion for an Arsenal substitution,” begins Peter Oh, setting himself up for the zinger, “but I believe what we’re witnessing here is a changing Odegaard at the top of the table.”
49 min: Silva diddles his way down the right wing and wins a corner off Zinchenko. De Bruyne takes long. There’s a minor stramash with Dias in the centre of it. Dias can’t sort his feet to shoot from the penalty spot, and his attempt to tee up De Bruyne is no good. Arsenal clear their lines.
47 min: That was an early sign that City aren’t of a mind to settle for two. Arsenal try to respond through Xhaka, who whips a curling shot in from a tight angle on the left. Ederson claims easily enough.
45 min 13 sec: City nearly score an outrageous goal. A ball launched long down the right. Haaland flicks it on for De Bruyne, who attempts to connect with the ball dropping over his shoulder. A fresh-air swipe. Hey, it happens to the best of them, and full marks for ambition. Goal kick.
City get the second half underway. No changes.
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HALF TIME: Manchester City 2-0 Arsenal
Arsenal will be sickened to have conceded a second goal so late in the half … but this is a scoreline that doesn’t flatter Manchester City at all. They could be three or four up. The champions have been in complete control.
45 min +4: White and Dias wrestle near City’s corner flag out on the right. Dias falls. White has a little nibble. Dias takes a bigger Beckham-at-France-98-style swipe. A fight nearly breaks out, but it’s stopped soon enough. VAR has a look, but it’s just going to be a yellow for Dias. Perhaps a bit lucky, given what happened to Beckham all those years ago? Mind you, White was a bit fortunate to escape that one without any punishment at all, so it’s swings and roundabouts.
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GOAL! Manchester City 2-0 Arsenal (Stones 45+1)
Stones was onside after all! White’s foot played him on! So much for the naked eye! Stones raises both arms in the air, the Etihad erupts, and that’s a hammer blow for Arsenal!
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45 min +2: … but VAR is taking a long, hard look at this!
45 min +1: De Bruyne curls the free kick to the far post. Stones rises highest and plants a header across Ramsdale that flies into the top-right corner. But the flag goes up for offside. It’s a decision that looks correct to the naked eye.
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45 min: Partey clatters into the back of Haaland. It’s a free kick, just right of centre, 30 yards out. Haaland isn’t happy and tells the referee as much. The referee gives him the Watch It Sonny eyes. There will be two added minutes.
43 min: Saka curls the corner in from the right. Ederson rises highest in a packed six-yard box and punches powerfully away. Saka tries to return the ball and larrups it out of play for a goal kick. He grimaces. Arsenal have achieved very little going forward.
42 min: Odegaard swings in from the left. Dias is forced to eyebrow out for a corner with Saka lurking just behind him. Before it can be taken, play stops so Dias can receive a bit of treatment.
41 min: Gundogan dances past Partey down the left, reaches the byline, and cuts back for Haaland, whose first-time slapshot is kicked away by Ramsdale. The Arsenal keeper is earning his wage tonight all right.
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39 min: Grealish dribbles into the Arsenal box from the left. Holding times a tackle perfectly, then White bashes the loose ball off Grealish and out for a goal kick. Grealish gets up and flashes that warm smile. He’s enjoying his football this season. We’re enjoying him enjoying his football this season, right?
38 min: A rare pause in the game as Haaland physically overpowers Partey. However, as he makes off towards the Arsenal box, the referee stops the game as Partey is down clutching his head. The home fans are not happy, but what’s a ref to do?
36 min: De Bruyne and Grealish combine crisply down the left. The ball’s rolled infield for Haaland, who absolutely bombs straight at Gabriel, who flips into Rabbit Headlight mode. Haaland reaches the edge of the box, but just as everyone waits for the net to bulge, he whips his low shot wide left of the goal. Not sure Ramsdale was getting to anything on target. Haaland holds his head in his hands.
35 min: … when Arsenal finally string a few passes together, the ball’s worked in from the right for Partey, who opens his body and steers a low drive wide right. Ederson had it covered, but that might give Arsenal succour.
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34 min: Arsenal are being given a bit of a chasing here. They’re struggling to get close to City; possession comes at a premium for them. But there’s still just the one in it, and …
32 min: City paint pretty triangles. It looks effortless. It’s certainly hypnotic, and Arsenal look groggy when Grealish suddenly wedges down the inside-left channel for Haaland, who belts a ferocious first-time drive goalwards from a tight angle. Ramsdale is the only Arsenal player who isn’t caught unawares, and parries magnificently.
30 min: Arsenal did well to weather that little storm. City are well on top.
28 min: City continue to press for a second. Now it’s De Bruyne feeding Haaland down the inside-right channel. He powers his way into the box but can’t quite sort his feet out, Holding and Zinchenko sticking to him well. He eventually digs out a no-backlift effort that squirts towards the bottom left, but Ramsdale parries and Partey arrives to bash clear. All of a sudden, Arsenal are hanging on.
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26 min: … so having said that, City nearly make it two. Haaland sends De Bruyne away down the middle again. De Bruyne twists Partey’s blood, then nearly gets rid of White, but the Arsenal defender somehow gets in the way of the eventual shot. What a block! De Bruyne tries to redirect the rebound to Haaland, arriving on the scene late, but can’t do so. Brilliant defence by White; De Bruyne might be a bit disappointed with his shot though.
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25 min: A decent period of possession for Arsenal in the City half. But then Xhaka’s loose touch allows Walker to nick the ball away, and Rodri draws a foul from Martinelli. Better from Arsenal.
23 min: A free kick for Arsenal in the centre circle. They plan to knock it long. On the edge of the City box, Partey and Haaland get involved in a shoving match. Once the referee reminds them they’re both grown men in their 20s, the free kick is wastefully hoicked out of play for a goal kick.
22 min: Silva dribbles in from the right with Zinchenko on his tail. His former team-mate doesn’t want to make any challenge as he enters the box. Silva opens his body and aims a curler towards the bottom left. He doesn’t get quite enough on the shot and it’s an easy one for Ramsdale to flop over.
20 min: De Bruyne tries to spin his way around Holding, and is fairly cynically bodychecked. He wins the free kick, but Holding is fairly fortunate not to go into the book. The challenge on its own terms was dubious enough; as De Bruyne claims to the referee, that’s the third or fourth time he’s been thus fouled.
18 min: Now it’s City’s turn to stroke it around the back. Arsenal don’t press them as hard. “Go easy on John Beck!” writes Richard Hirst. “As I said in MBM a few days ago he was a cultured midfielder at Fulham - you gotta believe me.”
16 min: Akanji channels his inner Beckenbauer and romps down the inside-left channel. He nearly breaks clear into the box, but that’s where he should probably lay off to a nearby team-mate. Instead he keeps going, allowing Partey to cut across him and draw a foul.
15 min: Arsenal attempt to calm things down a little with some sterile possession. They stroke it around the back awhile. But then City press hard, and Arsenal lose their supercool, shipping possession as Gabriel shanks out of play. Arsenal are understandably a little shaken.
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13 min: Ever since the goal, both managers have been hugging the touchline throwing semaphore shapes. Proper cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof stuff. The atmosphere in the Etihad is on a rolling boil. The tension is palpable.
11 min: Grealish tears down the left flank and plays infield for De Bruyne, who runs aggressively at the Arsenal defence again. This time he tries to release De Bruyne down the inside-right channel … and might have done so had Haaland not been uncharacteristically unaware of his surroundings. Arsenal clear their lines.
9 min: That was as route one as goals get. “John Beck would be proud of that,” quips Frinton Bojangles. But it was a hell of an elegant route-one goal. This Manchester City side don’t do anything by half.
8 min: “Oh well,” writes Charles Antaki, who if nothing else has proved tonight that good comedy is all about timing.
GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Arsenal (De Bruyne 7)
What a stunning goal this is! Walker hits long from the right-back position. Haaland brings the ball down on the halfway line and plays a little cute one around the corner to sends De Bruyne into space down the middle of the park. De Bruyne doesn’t exactly slalom, but he swerves a little to the right, past Gabriel, before whistling a low curling drive into the bottom corner from 25 yards. Ramsdale had no chance!
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6 min: A bright start to the game by both teams, then. Not that it’ll settle any nerves. “Excellent - back from the kitchen with a cup of tea, and Arsenal haven’t conceded yet,” notes Charles Antaki. “It’ll be fine.”
5 min: Martinelli makes good down the right and feeds Saka on the underlap. Saka pulls back to nobody in particular and Walker blooters clear. City nearly undone. Meanwhile here’s Somesh Menon: “Regarding Justin Kavanagh’s comment in the pre-match postbag, it’s the Norway Captain vs the Norway Destroyer so definitely not a one-Norse race this!”
3 min: This isn’t so easy for Ramsdale, though, as he paws at Grealish’s low cross from the left. The ball rolls loose. De Bruyne races in, hoping to slam home from eight yards, but Partey steps across him and happily takes a kick on the ankle. Free kick to Arsenal, but for a millisecond there, De Bruyne’s eyes lit up.
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2 min: Gundogan launches the first sortie down the left. He lays off to De Bruyne, who swings a low cross into the mixer. Easy for Ramsdale.
A friendly embrace between former colleagues Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta, a blast of Blue Moon, then Arsenal get the ball rolling. A roar rings around the Etihad. It’s on!
The teams are out! Manchester City wear their famous sky blue, Arsenal their equally storied red shirts with white sleeves. Everything as it should be … and what an atmosphere. The crowd na-na-na along to Hey Jude. On BT Sport, pundit Martin Keown suggests Arsenal should stop Haaland with an early “reducer”. Never change, English football, never change. Summit meeting coming right up!
Pre-match singalong. “I was just thinking what might happen if someone in the crowd let off a flare and kick off was delayed a few minutes to wait for the clouds of smoke to clear. As the City players stood around waiting for the match to start, it’s conceivable that John Stones could turn to a team mate and sing …
♫♪♬ Akanji, Akanji,
When will these clouds all disappear?”
Kevin Thomson, ladies and gentlemen. He’s here all week. Try the shepherd’s pie.
Recent history does not favour Arsenal at all. They’ve lost their last 11 Premier League matches against Manchester City, a run that goes back to November 2017. The scorelines, Arsenal first: 1-3, 0-3, 0-2, 1-3, 0-3, 0-3, 0-1, 0-1, 0-5, 1-2, 1-3. Cumulative total: 4-29.
In the interests of balance, Arsenal have the upper hand in the league over the entire piece, clocking up 87 all-time wins to City’s 58. And of course they’ve won 13 titles to City’s eight.
Pre-match postbag. “In light of Haaland’s staggering stats, would it be fair to say that the competition to be top goalscorer this season is a one-Norse race?” – Justin Kavanagh
“Will tonight finally be the night when football’s Hegelian master-slave dialectic is resolved? Or will it be another remake of Goethe’s Sorcerer and his Apprentice? On a more prosaic level, more probably a match between men and the boys. Arsenal have been punching way above their weight, and admirably so, but if they’re on the receiving end of a couple of Haaland left uppercuts they’ll finish the night out for the count on the Etihad canvas” – Nigel Moore
“God knows he caused me some pain, but Ian Rush scored 47 goals for Liverpool and two for Wales in 1983-84. And (and here’s the kicker) a penalty in the European Cup Final shootout that was more important than the other 49 put together - but doesn’t count” – Gary Naylor
(On that last subject, if we take in Haaland’s contributions for Norway this season, he’s on 54 goals! Mind you, five of those additional international goals were scored in the Nations League back in June, fixtures which were technically part of the 2022-23 campaign even if they were literally tacked onto the end of the previous one. So you can look at that both ways. Chalk them up or chalk them off, it’s going to make someone, somewhere on the internet very cross indeed. Dear reader, if you don’t mind, I’ll leave that decision to you. He’s good, this much we know.)
… and so does Pep Guardiola. “It is a really, really important game … there are more butterflies than welcome! … everybody knows who we have to face and what we have to do … we will try to impose our game … I was delighted to work with [Arteta] but after that he decided to move to an exceptional club and everyone has seen how good [the team] he has created … I love that we play at home and feel comfortable … the grass is in perfect condition.”
Mikel Arteta speaks to BT Sport. “This is where we have to be, we are Arsenal Football Club and we have to always be at the highest level … we have managed to do that for the last nine months and this is the last push … obviously it is a critical moment … we will see where we are and what we can achieve … we want to play our way and win … you have to be clinical against a team that has the ability to punish you at any moment, but we have that as well … we always give City one or two opportunities to punish us, and it is done, so you have to be incredibly good in every department in every minute to win the game … we have to look at what we have done for the whole season and when we play at our best we can beat any team … at the end it is down to the players … we want to try to win, but after that there is another five games … there is still a long way to go.”
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Manchester City make five changes to the side that started the 3-0 FA Cup semi-final win over Sheffield United. Hat-trick hero Riyad Mahrez drops to the bench along with Stefan Ortega, Aymeric Laporte, Sergio Gomez and Julian Alvarez. Ederson, Ruben Dias, John Stones, Rodri and Kevin De Bruyne are all back.
Arsenal make just one change to their starting XI in the wake of the chaotic 3-3 draw with Southampton last Friday evening. Granit Xhaka returns to take the place of Fabio Vieira, who drops to the bench.
The teams
Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Akanji, Stones, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Silva, Grealish, Haaland.
Subs: Ortega, Phillips, Laporte, Alvarez, Gomez, Mahrez, Foden, Palmer, Lewis.
Arsenal: Ramsdale, White, Holding, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Partey, Xhaka, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Jesus.
Subs: Turner, Tierney, Kiwior, Jorginho, Smith Rowe, Vieira, Trossard, Nelson, Nketiah.
Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland).
𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 💪
— Manchester City (@ManCity) April 26, 2023
XI | Ederson, Walker, Dias, Akanji, Stones, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Gundogan (C), Bernardo, Grealish, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Phillips, Laporte, Alvarez, Gomez, Mahrez, Foden, Palmer, Lewis#ManCity | @HaysWorldwide pic.twitter.com/sf5NFOZj98
🔴 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠𝙉𝙀𝙒𝙎 ⚪️
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) April 26, 2023
🔙 Xhaka returns
🪄 Odegaard makes 100th appearance
⚡️ Jesus in attack
Let’s do this - together! pic.twitter.com/0oUpIYvl0o
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Erling Haaland is on track, it’s fair to say, to break through the 50-goal barrier this season. This isn’t normal behaviour in English football, as today’s edition of The Knowledge illustrates. Here’s who the big Norwegian, currently on 48 goals for this campaign, has in his sights. (Those in italics were not playing in the top flight.)
63 Dixie Dean (Everton, 1927-28)
63 George Camsell (Middlesbrough, 1926-27)
58 Ted Harston (Mansfield, 1936-37)
58 Joe Payne (Luton, 1936-37)
54 Terry Bly (Peterborough, 1960-61)
52 Steve Bull (Wolves, 1987-88)
50 Vic Watson (West Ham, 1929-30)
50 Tom ‘Pongo’ Waring (Aston Villa, 1930-31)
50 Clarrie Bourton (Coventry, 1931-32)
50 Steve Bull (Wolves, 1988-89)
49 Clive Allen (Tottenham, 1986-87)
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Preamble
We could drone on to set the scene, but you’ll have had your preview fill by now. Anything other than a quick look at the table would be the dictionary definition of gilding the lily.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Arsenal | 32 | 43 | 75 |
| 2 | Man City | 30 | 50 | 70 |
| 3 | Newcastle | 31 | 29 | 59 |
This much-anticipated summit meeting kicks off at the Etihad at 8pm BST. Can you wait? No, us neither. It’s ON!!!
