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Arsenal Fall Apart In Crazy Few Minutes Against Manchester City

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Updated 14:27 1 Jan 2022 GMTPublished 14:09 1 Jan 2022 GMT

Arsenal Fall Apart In Crazy Few Minutes Against Manchester City

The Gunners were beating the Premier League champions and then everything suddenly went wrong conceding a penalty and a red card

Ryan Sidle

Ryan Sidle

Arsenal seemed to fall apart in a crazy few minutes against Manchester City, as they gave away a penalty and had a man sent off either side of nearly scoring.


Arsenal probably weren't expected to get much joy against Premier League leaders City on Saturday afternoon, with Pep Guardiola's side going into the game eight points clear of their closest rivals Chelsea.

But the Gunners were brilliant in the first half, may have had an early penalty, and went into the break leading 1-0 thanks to Bukayo Saka's excellent goal.

Mikel Arteta's team kept things going at the beginning of the second half but things suddenly started falling apart in the 53rd minute, when Bernardo Silva was brought down in the box by Granit Xhaka.

The referee initially decided there was no penalty but VAR called him over to watch the screen and he soon changed his mind, awarding the spot kick and showing the Swiss midfielder a yellow card.

Just after Riyad Mahrez equalised from the spot, Arsenal centre back Gabriel managed to pick up a yellow card for stupidly scuffing up the penalty spot before the penalty was taken.

With City level it might have been expected that the defending champions would go on and win, but they almost found themselves behind a minute later.

A mix up between Ruben Dias and Ederson saw the defender loop a header over his goalkeeper and looking like it would be a comedy own goal, only for Nathan Ake to clear off the line and Gabriel Martinelli to miss the follow up effort.

A minute later and the crazy moments finished off with Gabriel really regretting his numbskulled decision to mess with the penalty spot moments earlier.

The Brazilian blocked Gabriel Jesus on the centre circle as City attempted a counter attack, bringing him down, and picking up a very obvious second yellow card.


In fairness to the London side, after a crazy few minutes that really could have seen them implode in annoyingly typical fashion, they did manage to compose themselves shortly after the Gabriel red card, however it wasn't to be for them.

Deep into injury time, Rodri scored the winner for City and left Arsenal wondering what might have been.

Featured Image Credit: BT Sport

Topics: Premier League, Manchester City, Arsenal

Ryan Sidle
Ryan Sidle

Ryan is a journalist for SPORTbible with over eight years of experience. Passionate about all sports, he mainly covers football and F1 - Daniel Ricciardo once spent an entire interview referring to him as 'Ryan Gosling,' still his proudest moment.

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