The Best Moments Between Arsenal and City Down the Years

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For the primary time this season, the highest two within the Premier League will lastly meet with each other in what is popping out to be arguably probably the most unpredictable, thrilling and intriguing title race of the final decade.

Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis are solely assembly within the FA Cup and never the Premier League, however that is nonetheless set to be one of the attention-grabbing video games of the English season.

FA Cup Semi-Remaining, 2020

The irony on this sport is how each Metropolis and Arsenal have met within the FA Cup twice up to now six years with Arsenal profitable them each. Within the league and EFL Cup, the Gunners have misplaced each different sport to whole a document of two wins and 12 losses since 2017.

Again in 2020, nonetheless, Arsenal acquired arguably their finest win in opposition to Metropolis this century. It was within the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley, and never simply was it a 2-1 win for Mikel Arteta’s males, it was additionally the primary time the Spaniard had confronted the facet the place he acquired his first begin in teaching below Pep Guardiola.

It was an unbelievable second for Arteta within the semi-finals of the FA Cup, as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a objective in both half of a 2-0 win.

Adebayor Causes Havoc on the Etihad, 2009

In the course of the early years of Metropolis’s possession of Sheikh Mansour, the membership went on a rampage of hijacking Premier League gamers. A type of was Emmanuel Adebayor who scored in his first sport in opposition to the Gunners for Metropolis and delivered one of many Premier League’s most notorious celebrations.

After bagging for a fourth sport in a row with a thumping header, the previous Arsenal man sprinted the total size of the pitch so he might knee slide into the away followers and have fun for his new workforce.

He was, nonetheless, handed a three-match ban after being discovered responsible of violent conduct after intentionally kicking former colleague Robin van Persie.

Wenger Masterclass at Maine Highway, 2003

Metropolis moved to the Metropolis of Manchester Stadium again in 2003 and performed hosts to Arsenal one remaining time at Maine Highway in February 2003.

Successful 5-1 within the remaining match at Maine Highway between these two was one factor, however Nicolas Anelka made this sport extra memorable by scoring in opposition to his former facet, three years after leaving Arsenal.

Dennis Bergkamp, Thierry Henry, Sol Campbell, Patrick Vieira and Robert Pires all scored that day for Arsene Wenger’s defending Premier League champions.

A Premier League Traditional on the Etihad, 2013

The Metropolis have been defending the Premier League title in 2013/14 once they performed hosts to Arsenal in December of that season. The sport introduced in probably the most objectives between these two in Premier League historical past, as Theo Walcott managed to attain twice earlier than a Per Mertesacker header in stoppage time.

Nonetheless, six totally different goalscorers for Metropolis throughout the 90 minutes handed the champions all six factors 10 years after the 5-1 demolition at Maine Highway when Arsenal was defending the title.

10 years on from this sport, the 2 are proper within the title discuss as soon as once more.