Arsenal?s rout of Manchester City shows how great empires end
Pep Guardiola was thought to have stabilised City?s form, but Sunday?s 5-1 demolition by Arsenal shows that the champions? reign is now surely over
By the time Ethan Nwaneri whipped in Arsenal?s fifth, the mood at the Emirates was euphoric. The 17-year-old?s finish, arced into the bottom corner from that inside-right position through which so many of Arsenal?s attacks had come, felt like the perfect finale to a dominant 5-1 win over reigning Premier League champions Manchester City. And it was, in more ways than one.
Its youthful chutzpah seemed an appropriate way to round off a win in which 18-year-old Myles Lewis-Skelly had been the most eye-catching player, having scored the third goal with an impudent shimmy into the box. Yet there was a strange realisation on seeing the replay. Nwaneri?s finish hadn?t nestled in that close to the corner of the goal; it wasn?t quite as good as it had initially appeared. And that felt emblematic of the game as a whole.
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