Arsenal the best equipped team to test City and dent their title ambitions

Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya celebrates with team-mates after winning a penalty shoot-out in their Champions League last 16 second leg match against Porto in north London on March 12th, 2024. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFPCity of Manchester Stadium, 4.30pm

The last title decider, Liverpool versus City three weeks ago at Anfield, ended in a fun 1-1 draw that everyone already seems to have forgotten about. The latest title decider, Arsenal’s trip to the Etihad on Sunday afternoon, does seem to have more in the way of decisive edge. At the very least this feels like a pre-ending, a bridging sequence, the untangling of a final plot point.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta during a training session in London Colney, England, on March 26th, 2024. No member of his current squad has scored a goal for Arsenal at the Etihad. Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images The approach will be to do more not less of this as the season narrows. When Arteta spoke about the need for champion players to keep producing the same high-intensity game every three days even when their tendons are twanging he was thinking of periods such as these.

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