Arsenal held Manchester City to a 5-1 win at the Emirates, with goals from teenagers Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri.
Erling Haaland told Mikel Arteta to “Stay humble” after Man City scored a late stoppage-time equalizer to earn a 2-2 draw against Arsenal in September.
Arsenal took it personally as they got their revenge against City. Gabriel Martinez rushed to Haaland to remind him ‘To stay humble’. As if that was not enough, Lewis Skelly scored and took over the famous Haaland celebration to stamp the message.
Mikel Arteta: “It is a great day for us, especially with the necessity that we had to win the game. The manner that we have done it I am really pleased. We had to suffer and in moments we needed a bit of luck, and we had it.”
Arsenal took the lead with less than two minutes into the match. Martin Odegaard blew into an open net after a mix-up involving John Stones and Manuel Akanji.
Erling Haaland equalised early in the second half with a fine header, but the goal would then only serve as a consolation since it did not bring them back into the game as the Gunners went a blaze.
Arsenal retook the party’s lead one minute later through Thomas Partey’s deflected strike.
The Gunners added their third through Myles Lewis-Skelly, who cut inside onto his weaker right foot and curled home with a strike too hot for Ortega to handle. The teenager then celebrated by mimicking Haaland’s former zen celebration.
City tried to control further damage but they were caught of guard with Martinelli setting up Kai Havertz who added the fourth on a breakaway.
Deep in stoppage time, youngster Ethan Nwaneri who was brought on as a substitute curled in spectacularly to complete the scoring by making it five.
Pep Guardiola: “It’s happened all season, we are giving away too many things, we are aware this cannot happen, it happened. But we reacted really well and we played with personality and we defended so good and then with the ball we were a threat but unfortunately after the second happened, again many times we had the momentum. For the deflection and in other situations we conceded the goals.”
Arsenal move nine points clear of Man City and six behind leaders Liverpool.
