Can't be sure if Foden was poor or we defended him well. I am relieved he wasn't his usual form.

There were no bookings, right? Credit to the referee. Another referee would have given out a handful at a minimum this game. He let them play but I can't say we didn't deserve at least one yellow card.

Good point but it feels a good day for Liverpool

Not sure where that leaves us.

A point at City? Yes please.

This team has more guts and determination than we've seen in years.

Both are leaders. No difference.

Both are leaders. No difference.

I believe Ødegaard is not calm enough as captain. Reminds me when Cesc was captain, I don't think it did him any favours.

Rice may in fact be a better captain overall, but if Arteta dares, it will definitely have negative repercussions. Ødegaard has more of a sense of urgency about him. Rice more calm. We know what kind of captain Rice can be seeing him at West Ham. Both are effective. Would Rice give us that wee bit of difference? That's an interesting question.

I'm not suggesting it's taken off Ødegaard this season but maybe just after he's signed a lengthy contract extension in the summer.

Ødegaard has only just signed a contract extension in September ? If you moved the captaincy without question the player stripped of it would leave anyway. Any club in Europe right now would take a serious look at Martin. We wouldn’t be short of suitors.

Craziness

As supporters we have some uncomfortable weeks ahead: we will have to cheer for Man U and Spurs on a number of occasions.

I'm not suggesting it's taken off Ødegaard this season but maybe just after he's signed a lengthy contract extension in the summer.

If me wearing their shirt for 90 minutes meant they won their games v our rivals I’d happily do it - the greater good! I have no qualms vehemently cheering on any side of it meant it helped Arsenal in only a minute way.
Man U are poor so it looks like spurs will get champions league next season as I suspect 4th and 5th in the prem will get it. More than happy for spurs to win all but one of their remaining games if it helped us win the league….and I’d happily lose to spurs if you could guarantee we still won the league

I think Ødegaard is the most in tune with Arteta in the squad. Ødegaard orchestrated the press and the general play, he’s the one moving people in to positions, he’s Arteta’s brain on the pitch. Unless he seriously drops off in form he stays captain for as long as Arteta is here.
There were two moments today where Ødegaard was inches away from the perfect threaded through ball

This Arsenal team has lots of steel

City had an awesome forward line and we held them at bay without fear

Also there’s no doubt in my mind that Haaland is not close to being the best striker in football. He comes alive in the box for sure but he’s general all round play is pretty average. Easier said than done but deny him space and mark him ridiculously tightly and aggressively and you can nullify him- takes a huge team effort. Gabriel is the marker and aggressor of our pair and he’s regularly giving the best strikers in the prem and Europe not a single sniff of a goal

It has to be said that City defended exceptionally well too. That high line was very well organised and on the odd occasions we got through, they were very quick to get back in numbers.

Gabriel is one of the contenders for Arsenal player of the season for me.

If only we hadn’t dropped silly points v Fulham and hadn’t dropped the ball v spurs.

Think that will end up being the difference between winning and losing the title.

Yeah. It still feels like an outside chance only, not only because of those lost points, but also because I think we still may have that sort of turgid performance in us.

I'm hoping Partey can have a good run and that whatever is the matter with Saka can be sorted out.

Also there’s no doubt in my mind that Haaland is not close to being the best striker in football. He comes alive in the box for sure but he’s general all round play is pretty average. Easier said than done but deny him space and mark him ridiculously tightly and aggressively and you can nullify him- takes a huge team effort. Gabriel is the marker and aggressor of our pair and he’s regularly giving the best strikers in the prem and Europe not a single sniff of a goal

On a cool spring afternoon thick with thwarted hopes, Gabriel and Saliba became the first centre-back partnership in the Premier League to restrict Haaland to zero shots on target twice in the same season. In fact, if you add in last summer’s Community Shield, they have managed it three times this campaign, across more than four hours of football. Roy Keane, frankly, had endured enough. “The level of his general play is so poor,” he said. “In front of goal, he’s the best in the world, but in his general play he’s almost like a League Two player. That’s the way I look at it. He has to improve his all-round game.”

Even by the standards of Keane’s acid tongue, it was scalding. Haaland, let us not forget, torched records for fun in his debut season, reaching 50 top-flight goals in 17 fewer games than any player since the Premier League’s inception. There is an argument that only the unending adoration of Lionel Messi, far from the game’s epicentre in Miami, prevented him from winning the Ballon d’Or. Is it truly legitimate for a former Manchester United captain to be denigrating him, a few months later, as some fourth-tier trundler?

NYC is imposing a fee to go into midtown Manhattan. A congestion tax scheme of sorts. I seem to recall London doing something similar years ago, no?

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Akanji complaining about Arsenal supposedly tactically fouling….this was said by a City player with no hint of self awareness!

By the way. Anyone accusing us of no ambition in the game, we mustered 6 shots and 2 on target. At the game at the emirates City mustered 4 shots and 1 on target!

Absolutely ridiculous that the focus today is on Arsenal not being more ambitious rather than City not having the creativity to break us down.

At the end of the season if we don’t win the title some idiot will point to this game as one where Arsenal should have been more ambitious and gone for the win, some pundit will I assure you, a point away at City in a title race when you’ve already beaten them at home is a top result - if we don’t win it then look at West Ham at home for starters