Arsenal stayed humble this afternoon and battered Man City 5-1 at the Emirates this afternoon.
Martin Odegaard put Arsenal 1-0 up inside two minutes, before Erling Haaland equalised in the second half. That sparked the Gunners into life and goals from Thomas Partey, the brilliant Myles Lewis-Skelly, Kai Havertz and substitute Ethan Nwaneri produced a famous result against a team that has inflicted so much pain on us down the years.
Here’s how the players rated this evening.
Read the Arsenal 5-1 Man City match report and see the goal here
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Hale End 10/10
The thing about them two latest gems out of OUR HALLOWED academy is the quiet confidence with which they play — it belies their tender years and it is fvcking scary. I am absolutely hyped about both of them!
I’m starting to think in one or two years we might have the best full backs in Europe, MLS and Timber are both insane talents and both are only getting started.
Did anyone catch Neville basically baiting city players to injure our players m?
Totally despicable. Sly Sports need to have a word.
Yeah I found that concerning but these days can’t even be shocked.
Neville is a huge steaming 💩
What I ask myself is, why do people still watch sky sports
Hale End 2-1 Man City
Odd that Heaven and Martin left Hale End for United because they “didn’t feel they would get opportunities in the first team at Arsenal”.
Upper sixth 5 Man City 1
On a day full of highlights, this comment is another!! Well played
Either not enough belief or went for the £’s
That my friends was a classic Fuck Off Win!!!
Stay humble, eh!
Seen this at exactly 115 votes… nice!
What are they feeding them at Hale End!?
On Sundays it’s Haaland’s Humble Pie.
Man City crumble tomorrow!
Dough man, Dowman!
This is why I love Arsenal !!!
10/10 to MLS for that celebration. Put that clown Haaland in his place!
I couldn’t believe he pulled that out, the guy has proper tactical awareness beyond his years
That was fuckin’ excellent!
Hang it in the fucking Louvre
My God what a game, and what a massive team we have right now. We truly played like a top tier team – looking unstoppable both physically and mentally. Let’s go!
Top teams can’t cope. Bodes well for the UCL this year… Bring it
John Stones looks like he’s about to cry in the post match interview. Get in 💪
He gets a 10/10 rating from me if he does
Can’t wait for Pep fake smiling his way through the next one even though he’s crying inside.
So so humble
He’s going to be sacked in the morning!
I don’t know if anyone here has seen the film Base ketball. But John stones post game interview was so like trey parkers 😂😂😂
What a reference from the past
10/10 for everyone today for raising my spirits while in the hospital with a family member. Only think better would have been Bruno sent off to the moon.
*thing. Jfc.
Wishing your family all the best.
Thanks! We hope to be discharged today, then the physical therapy begins. Steps are so dangerous for old folks.
Unfortunately we are in the US, so the bills to come will be awful.
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Hope your family member is better soon mate
It’s neat having a hater on here that will down vote literally everything I post. Hope you get the help you need and find some joy mate.
Best wishes for your sick loved ones.Prayers are going up.❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾
outstanding one man show.. Best I’ve seen in years.
But enough talking about the ref..
We were magnificent
He was actually decent i thought. Game flowed well, no dodgy decisions
In their words of their most famous fans, Don’t look back in anger, just fade away.
How’s that for humility you sky blue cunts🖕🖕
The* damn autocorrect
Thomas Partey when he plays in his natural position has uncanny habit of maybe not being the best player on the pitch but in the top 2 or 3, I’m very glad we didn’t sell him and I hope we keep him for the next couple of years………and play him in the right position because right back does him dirty
He was outstanding today
Partey turned the game around for us today. Soaked up pressure and released the penetrative balls for our counters.
His real weakness is his ability to stay fit, but when he does and plays a few games on the go, he is one magnificent midfielder. Yes age is catching up with him, but the way he is playing he ought to be extended for another year at least. Rice, Partey, Zubi, Merino will be quite some options on midfield!
Partey is the definition of a sweeping pass forward into runners
Brilliant
Blogs, pin this post please.
Martinelli also shut Gvardiol down which is funny because of how crucial his goals are to them.
I love my mom and dad
Don’t know about anybody else, but a couple of irritating calls aside, I found it very refreshing getting to watch a big premier league game minus a rampant egomaniac of a ref determined to make the whole day all about him. The premier league should try that out more often
Overall a good performance, but his yellow to Odegaard and talking to to Timber when Gvardiol prevented a quick free kick made my blood boil a bit
Who cares, staying humble
Ref was good today
He was less bad than usual.
I knew it.. Almost everybody was all about Nwaneri but the first time I watched Kelly play, I told my friend that guy is the hottest thing out of the Academy. Calm, deceptively strong, interesting decision-making.
Why is Arsenal actually happy when Gabriel is having a goal draught? His trademark header isn’t there anymore. He even has the gut to tell Haaland to stay humble. He’s lucky that Micheal Oliver isn’t the ref. Completely unacceptable!
As a Celebration Police, we can’t look away from that.
Anyway, CYOG!
Looks like many people don’t get my joke. Wait until Neville says it. He’s the head of Celebration Police.
Just sharing his opinion here
I got it 🙂
Scoring from open play, it’s our new secret weapon.
Sarcasm is an artform. Keep practicing is the message
Just a shout to MO today. He maybe wasn’t as amazing on the ball as he can be but fuck what work rate and drive!
Perfect captain and my MOTM.
He was actually pretty bad but you can never fault his work rate and intelligence.
A couple of dodgy touches and passes here and there, but as Rice said, his work rate is really underrated, was key today.
His best performance of the season, hope he carries on like this
Questionable referring once again. I’m sorry but I’m not happy with calls made, even if we had scored 10. Silva should have had at least 2 yellow cards. On the other hand, a proper beating handed out to City. Happy for the team. Congrats to youngsters for showing pure class and confidence.
He was a shadow of the ref we had in the Champions League mid week.
First 15min city players delayed the restart 3 times and there was a foul on Havertz near the middle of the pitch which weren’t given as a yellow.
We had players sent off twice for delaying restarts. I still think there should be some legal ways to tackle this.
There was a barge on Trossard which I thought warranted a yellow.
True that! And he kicked out at Leo after a foul was given against City! I was aghast that Sky didn’t even show a replay of it.
Silva is terrible when he’s losing. He actually wanted to get sent off to avoid the shame but the incompetent ref bailed him out.
Kicking out at Trossard, after fouling him. No card!
After our first goal from a teenager, he knew their season is done. Instead of handling it with the slightest bit of class or maturity, this little creep responds by literally kicking a defenseless player on the ground, not even pretending to be going for the ball. Then he kicks at Nwaneri, again not even pretending to go for the ball. Silva is a dirty little prick. The Premier League refs don’t care about that though, they have to be focused on sending off Arsenal players for “delaying the restart” the same way players on every team do every game… Read more »
Silva seemingly never gets punished for his repeated cynical fouls
What a snide little bastard he is – getting done by a teenager so he tries to cause an injury.
Thomas Partey!! Hats off to the fella. Best season he’s having for us. It’s going to be such a task to replace him.
Why replace him?
Give him a 2 year contract and allow Jorginho to succeed elsewhere
We should give him a new contract. Zubi will need time to get used to the EPL pace. With him and Zubi, we’re covered.
Most definitely, if Partey and Jorgi leave, that means the team needs to sign a midfielder for cover. I think it would be much better to continue Partey, and use the funds to bolster the attack
There are infinite universes, and we’re living in the one where TP is staying fit and in top form. So glad!
What a result that is! Everyone played out of their skins today, even the subs coming on. Buzzing with that.. big shout to Havertz getting that goal after the first half miss.
We looked very good when we decided to turn the screw.
I have serious admiration for Havertz.
Lot of people give out……
I don’t!
The bonus today is the “resurgent ManU shited”
We usually look good when we decide to turn the screw, instead of sitting back.
Partey was immense today. Get in!!!!!
Also.. my bonus rating is 0/10 for Gary Neville on commentary. Have that Gary!!
That’s the thing with Kai, he could have crumbled so so many times so far in his Arsenal career, but every single time he comes back from a bad moment to be even better. That’s the sort of mental fortitude I want on our team.
Deserves massive respect, good player, works hard. Not a natural striker, but that is not his fault.
I’d say he’s one of de first on Mikels team sheet.
But wtf does he know ?😂
The Hale Enders could teach the senior members of the team that it’s perfectly OK to make driving runs at the opposition instead of hesitating and playing back or side to side. Well done, kids !!
Well one found that to be MOST Satisfactory indeed…
Stay humbled city
Very entertaining game to watch, I haven’t seen Arsenal turn up the gears like that in a long time. Encouraging to see, let’s carry this energy over to the cup game!
🎵Stay humble you twat
stay humble you twat
erling Harland
stay humble you twat 🎵
😄😄😄😄😄😄
Compounded by another Saka-like goal from Ethan.
I’m delirious – this is wonderful ❤️❤️❤️
Over rating again we were poor for along time in this game. Havartz was slow and missed a sitter. We let city come at us with no leadership to change it resulting in the equaliser. When the young lad came on he looked the class apart we need. This Arsenal side should be top of this league if only we had got a central forward who you can rely on. Open your eyes why are we so far behind Liverpool at this stage.
No leadership to change it? Everyone on the team was putting pressure on them when they tried to get into our box. Their goal came from an excellent cross and Haaland out-muscling Saliba. Conceding the goal galvanized our attacking and we went on to score 4 more. Liverpool is playing lights-out right now, they’ve still dropped points and likely will again. We haven’t been able to field a consistent team all season and we’re only 6 points back.
But we don’t. Couldashouldawoulda. Enjoy the ride man.
49 goals in 24 games in the PL alone. Maybe it’s your eyes that are closed
You are in the wrong blog.
Crawl back under your rock, Ange.
Good performance. Allez les Gunners
Havertz ain’t a great striker !!! But what a great player that lad is for the team & that is why he’s so important !!! Excellent performance from everyone but Raya take a bow son ! And TP5 ??? Give him a 2 Year contract with a clause in saying never to play full back again but just control games from midfield ! I can’t mention MLS & Ethan Nwaneri as I have to wear these pants again tomorrow !!!
Adidas need to drop some MLS & Nwaneri custom merch right now, I’d sell my kidneys to buy it.
I did suggest not to go that far, the way those two are evolving you may be required to consume lots of celebratory beers.
Odegaard scored from open play vs Zagreb in the UCL, no?
Really happy for Havertz after I was, ahem, less than pleased with him for that miss in the first half. Didn’t let his head drop in the second half, worked incredibly hard and got the goal he deserved. Hope this can be a turning point for him for the rest of the season.
I gave MLS a 10. The first time I’ve ever done this on Arseblog ratings. I just don’t see how that performance could be improved. Even had a trolling celebration. Perfection.
Well said mate
Yep. ‘Impressive’ doesn’t really do his performance justice.
Will Saka get back in the team? Only joking.
Again, I love this team. They fight
and the comments were funny.
one thing though many comments about Neville’s comments but I never see or hear them Completely different pre, game and post commentary. Which I actually think is pretty good
so what did the turd say? Look even though I am American I have despised him for nearly 30 years. So nothing he says would surprise me.
….a magic night
The Havertz miss was nowhere near as bad as some people say. The keeper was covering 2/3rds of the goal and there was a man on the line covering the rest. Should have hit the target, but …
His goal though was a thing of beauty. Amazing run to find space and put away the shot. And I’ve heard people say he’s pretty slow.
I am sure we all thought that the miss by Havertz (which was just awful) was going to have an impact on the outcome, but boy the response by both sides after they equalized was so stark. We put the pedal to the medal (finally played on the front foot with a lead) and they just fell apart. Hopefully this can be a springboard to run of victories to keep the pressure on Liverpool.
Chapeau gunners, chapeau
49 49 Lewis-Skelly
49 49 I say
49 49 Lewis-Skelly
Playing football the Arsenal way.
As he becomes more senior, he should ask to keep that shirt number. It’s a significant number in our history.