Horror blunder flips Premier League title race

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Manchester City seized the momentum successful the Premier League rubric contention aft Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland helped unafraid a 3-1 triumph astatine Arsenal successful a top-of-the-table match.

Grealish and Haaland some scored successful the 2nd fractional arsenic the defending champions extended their caller dominance implicit Arsenal and showed they won't relinquish the rubric easily.

The triumph puts City successful archetypal spot up of Arsenal connected extremity difference, though the Gunners inactive person a crippled successful hand. More importantly, perhaps, it maintained a intelligence borderline implicit Mikel Arteta's squad arsenic City has present beaten Arsenal successful 11 consecutive league matches.

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In a crippled that lived up to the billing of the biggest Premier League lucifer of the play truthful acold with moments of end-to-end action, City took the pb erstwhile Kevin de Bruyne capitalised connected a antiaircraft mistake successful the 24th minute, earlier Bukayo Saka equalised from the punishment spot successful the 42nd.

Arsenal made a agleam commencement but gave distant the pb cheaply aft City goalkeeper Ederson booted the shot up the field. Right backmost Takehiro Tomiyasu tried to walk the shot backmost to Aaron Ramsdale but lone deed it into the way of De Bruyne, who curled a lob implicit the on-rushing goalkeeper and into the bare net.

Minutes earlier, Eddie Nketiah had spurned the champion accidental of the crippled truthful acold erstwhile Oleksandr Zinchenko picked him retired successful the container with a transverse but the striker headed wide.

Tomiyasu had a accidental to marque amends successful the 28th infinitesimal aft Gabriel Martinelli picked him retired with a transverse into the country but the Japan planetary volleyed the shot good precocious of the bar.

But Arsenal's unit paid disconnected erstwhile it was awarded a punishment for a foul by Ederson connected Nketiah arsenic the striker tried to sprout from a hard angle, and Saka calmly rolled it into the near country aft sending Ederson the incorrect way.

City past thought it had a punishment aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional erstwhile Gabriel clumsily pulled down Haaland successful the area, but the determination was overturned for an offside connected the Norway striker.

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But City inactive reclaimed the pb aft different mistake by Gabriel, who turned the shot implicit successful his ain half. The visitors countered rapidly and Ilkay Gundogan squared the shot for Grealish, who bushed Ramsdale with a debased changeable that took a deflection disconnected Tomiyasu.

Haaland was acceptable to commencement aft picking up a sound successful the erstwhile crippled against Aston Villa and took his tally to 26 league goals this play erstwhile De Bruyne chopped the shot for the striker, who took 1 interaction earlier slotting a changeable into the acold corner.

Nketiah sent different header wide precocious connected but that was the closest Arsenal came to pulling a extremity back.

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Arsenal has present gone 3 consecutive league games without a triumph — losing 2 of those — aft racking up 16 wins successful the archetypal 19 rounds of the season.

The Gunners person dropped much points successful those 3 games (8) than they did successful the archetypal 19 (7).

The crippled had primitively been scheduled for October but was postponed due to the fact that of a docket reshuffling successful the aftermath of the decease of Queen Elizabeth II.

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