LIVE: Arsenal vs Manchester City

90+4′ FULL TIME!!! Arsenal 0-2 Manchester City. 87′ SUBSTITUTION!!! Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling is out for Leroy San. 85′ NO GOAL!!! This time it’s Ozil who has the ball in the back of the net, but he is well offside when he receives the through ball from Aubameyang. 79′ NO GOAL!!! Aubameyang has the ball in the net, […]

LIVE: Arsenal vs Manchester City

90+4′ FULL TIME!!! Arsenal 0-2 Manchester City.

87′ SUBSTITUTION!!! Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling is out for Leroy San.

85′ NO GOAL!!! This time it’s Ozil who has the ball in the back of the net, but he is well offside when he receives the through ball from Aubameyang.

79′ NO GOAL!!! Aubameyang has the ball in the net, but the linesman has his flag up for offside.

73′ Yellow card!!! De Bruyne (City) is the latest player to be shown a yellow card for his foul on Torreira.

69′ SUBSTITUTION!!! (Arsenal) Granit Xhaka is out  for Lucas Torreira.

63′ GOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL…..Manchester City double their lead as Benerdo Silva lashes home from a fine cross. Arsenal 0-2 Manchester City.

63′ CHANCE!!!Guendouzi completely misjudges the flight of the ball which allows Aguero to run through on goal, he goes for goal and Cech makes a superb save.

56′ SUBSTITUTION!!! Manchester City make their first substitution of the afternoon, with Mahrez coming off and he has been replaced by De Bruyne.

55′ MISS!!! Lacazette misses from outside the box after being provided a glorious chance but he hits his shot wide of the post.

54′ SUBSTITUTION!!! Arsenal make their second substitution of the game, with Ramsey coming off the pitch Lacazette.

52′ Yellow card!!! Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) gets a caution for his bad tackle on Aguero.

46′ SECOND HALF….

HALF TIME!!!! Arsenal 0-1 Manchester City. Sterling’s strike is the difference between the two.

45′ Four minutes added time.

41′ CHANCE!!! Aguero (City) locates Mahrez with a long pass, the forward danced into the box before hitting a shot that goes wide.

34′ SUBSTITUTION!!!  Maitland-Niles is injured and has been withdrawn for new signing, Stephan Lichtsteiner.

30′ BALL POSSESSION!!! Arsenal 49%- 51% Manchester City.

28′ SAVE!!! Cech (Arsenal) saves Mahrez’s free-kick from just outside the box.

27′ FREE-KICK!!! Manchester City get a free-kick in a dangerous position.

26′ Yellow Card!!! Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Arsenal)

20′ SAVE!!! Bellerin (Arsenal) gets the ball at the right flank, dribbles his way into the box before unleashing a shot that Ederson parried away.

15′ G-O-A-L…Sterling scores for Manchester City. It’s Manchester City 1-0 Arsenal.

9’CHANCE! Sterling forces Cech (Arsenal) into making a superb stop at his near post to deny the winger an opening goal.

4′ Yellow Card!!! Sterling (City) picks up an early yellow card, after a strong tackle on Guendouzi.

3′ Arsenal have the first chance at goal. Sokratis Papastathopoulos wins the ball in the middle of the park, heading the ball onto Ramsey who latches onto it before trying to place it into the back of the net, but Ederson comfortably gathers.

1′ Game on…. 

Arsenal take on defending champions Manchester City in their first match of the English Premier League season.

This is the first competative match under new coach, Unai Emery.

LINE UP

MAN CITY SUBS: Claudio Bravo, Vincent Kompany, Kevin De Bruyne, Leroy Sane, Nicolas Otamendi, Gabriel Jesus, Phil Foden.

MAN CITY (4-3-3): Ederson (GK); Kyle Walker, John Stones, Aymeric Laporte, Benjamin Mendy; Bernardo Silva, Fernandinho (c), Ilkay Gundogan; Riyad Mahrez, Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling.
 

ARSENAL SUBS: Bernd Leno, Mohamed Elneny, Alexandre Lacazette, Lucas Torreira, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Rob Holding, Alex Iwobi

ARSENAL (4-2-3-1): Petr Cech (GK & C); Hector Bellerin, Sokratis, Shkodran Mustafi, Ainsley Maitland-Niles; Matteo Guendouzi, Granit Xhaka; Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

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