City Vs Gunners

This week 2 important games were played in Barclays Premier League. In first game, gunners were back in Manchester, but this time against rich city boys at ‘City of Manchester Stadium’. Man city were hosting the gunners this weekend. City has built the best team after many years they have won all their encounters this season from the first game. If they win this game then they will win all 4 out of 4 first time after 1986.

City manger Mark Hughes has different approaches for home and away games with 4-4-2 combination for away and home with 4-3-3 combination. They have Stephen Ireland, Craig Bellamy, and Shaun Wright-Phillips but most importantly Kolo Toure (defender) and Emmanuel Adebayor (attacker) transferred from arsenal to city this season. These two are the key players for this season. Adebayor is one of the best centre forewords in world, if his mind is right but it’s impossible to get his mind right for whole season. He doesn’t like physically being challenged. So Gallas should play physical game against him as he is best defender in Arsenal side.

Arsenal had some good news before this game. Their captain Cesc Fàbregas and Tomáš Rosický back in team. But both teams still have some injury problems Tevez, Robinho are out because of injury for City and Arshavin got injured on his international duty last weekend.

Last time when gunners visited City of Manchester Stadium then their title hopes got shattered last season, so it was interesting to see their game this time.

City also is the strongest contender for title this season. And they could send strong message to other teams by winning this game.

Game started as every Arsenal game starts, arsenal started dominating with more possession and threats on City’s goal. But Almunia pushed the header back into the nets scoring own goal in 20^th min. But first half got over without any further happenings.

Gunners were not playing to their potential. Arsène Wenger was not happy with the way they were playing. Their defenders were putting flop show, Adebayor was creating many chances. But gunners were not having any answers to Shaun Wright-Phillips and Craig Bellamy’s attacks.

In second half Robin van Persie equalized with stunning shot by his left foot. But Craig Bellamy, Adebayor, and Shaun Wright-Phillip all City’s star players scored on crucial time. By this time it was game over for the gunners. But Rosisky scored to bring gunners back in the game. But script of the game was already written by Adebayor and his team.

Adebayor was declared as ‘Man of the Match’. He was involved in 2 incidences. One with van Persie. Adebayor kicked van Persie deliberately, but not noticed by referee, so not collected yellow card. But he was penalized after his celebration after scoring and celebrating in front of Arsenal fans.

Man city surely showed that they are better of the two and are strong contender for this year’s Premier League.