It was an total routing for Arteta led Arsenal squad early Saturday afternoon as they fell badly to the superior tightly knit Pep Gardiola’s men in the English Premiership League.
The two teams met at the Etihad Stadium, home of the Manchester City Football Club.
It was Arsenal’s fourth straight loss, compounding the worries of Arteta, who is trying to wriggle out of the bottom four of the Premiership League and save the club from certain embarrassment this season.
It took only 7 minutes for Pep Guardiola’s men to crush Arteta’s side.
Gundogan peels off between two tall center-backs, who don’t judge the cross well, and heads in brilliantly.
He started the move by finding Bernardo, who fed Gabriel Jesus and the pair kept possession in the corner. And the cross was superb for Gundogan to head in.
Ferran Torres scored the second goal from a free-kick.
The cross eventually comes in and Ferran Torres instinctively strokes home after some awful defending from Calum Chambers and Rob Holding.
Arsenal’s woes were compounded in the 35 minutes as Xhaka was sent off
The Arsenal midfielder catches Cancelo high and dangerously with a reckless challenge. Cancelo did well to move his leg out of the way of Xhaka’s two-footed lunge to avoid any serious injury.
Gabriel Jesus then added another blow to the problems.
It was created by Grealish then finished by Jesus.
Grealish advanced into the box, twisting Chambers right then left, and his outside-of-the-boot pass allowed a prodded finish for Jesus.
Arsenal which were three goals down by first half went further to concede two more bringing Man City’s total haul at today’s encounter to five unreplied goals.