Manchester City vs Arsenal LIVE: Premier League result and reaction after goalless draw
Man City 0-0 Arsenal: Neither side could break the deadlock in a good result for Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium
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Your support makes all the difference.Arsenal showed their title credentials by holding reigning champions Manchester City to a 0-0 draw at the Etihad Stadium, allowing Liverpool to take top spot on a pivotal day in the Premier League’s three-way title race.
Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal, in the hunt for their first league title in 20 years, are second in the table on 65 points with nine games remaining, while City are third with 64. Liverpool claimed the lead with their 2-1 comeback victory over Brighton & Hove Albion earlier on Sunday.
City dominated possession, coming at Arsenal in waves. But the visitors frustrated Pep Guardiola’s men – including league-leading scorer Erling Haaland – with a textbook defensive display to extend their unbeaten league run to nine games.
Gabriel Jesus had Arsenal’s best chances, firing two shots just wide in the first half and then narrowly failing to meet an inviting cross from Bukayo Saka. City’s best opportunity was Kevin De Bruyne’s early corner kick that glanced off the shoulder of Nathan Ake but fell to keeper David Raya
Relive all the action from Manchester City vs Arsenal below:
FULL-TIME: Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
Gabriel, Halaand and Guardiola are exchanging words after the final whistle, but it all ends with smiles. Arteta and Arsenal certainly look happier with that result.
Grealish was getting a little talking to from Guardiola at the end.
All in all, a point that both teams can be happy with. Both sides are going to be extremely difficult to beat over the last few games of the season, but who will drop the first points in the race for the title?
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
95 mins: FULL-TIME! The game comes to an end with Rodri trying to clip in a ball over the top, but Raya collects and the final whistle goes.
Liverpool will be the happiest of the top three as Easter Sunday comes to an end.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
94 mins: Arsenal are struggling to mount any sort of attack as we approach the end of added time. Rice tries to play in Martinelli, but he’s easily moved off the ball by Gvardiol.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
92 mins: Raya’s kick goes straight out and it’s beginning to look like Arsenal are more than happy with a point. City come again and Haaland meets a cross, but he can only direct his header across goal towards Doku.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
90 mins: We’ll have just five minutes of added time here. Both sides look in a rush to try and get a winner, but City more so.
Grealish collects the ball on the wing and clips in a cross, but Haaland goes down and there’ll be a VAR check. It looks soft.
Doku manages to get into the box and try the cutback, but it goes behind for a corner. It comes to nothing and Raya collects.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
88 mins: Now Haaland is down after that corner, but it looks like he’ll be okay to continue.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
87 mins: City win another corner as we approach the last couple of minutes. Several sets of players are tussling in the box, but the short corner routine comes to nothing.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
85 mins: Arsenal have a real chance as Odegaard collects near halfway and slips through Trossard. He’s one-on-one with Akanji and gets the shot away, but it’s beaten away by Ortega. Akanji did well to force him a little wider than he’d have liked.
Manchester City 0-0 Arsenal
84 mins: Saliba collects a wasteful City pass into nowhere, and Arsenal try and build an attack, but Partey’s pass misses Tomiyasu.
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