This was about bringing the fight to City, about matching them not only technically and tactically but mentally, letting them know they were there in the new sense of the phrase
. When the teams came together, City played with imperial hauteur while Arsenal were deference itself. The home defeat to City in February presaged a brittle end to the season during which Arsenal lost composure and nerve. Arteta admitted to serious bouts of introspection at the season’s end, asking himself if he could have done more to prevent the unravelling.
So this was about bringing the fight to City, about matching them not only technically and tactically but mentally, letting them know they were there in the new sense of the phrase; not halving City in the tackle but applying intelligent pressure, pushing them back, forcing the error. This they did with some success.
City are never less than committed, and so practiced in the method are they that it requires a relentless effort to stay in the contest. But that is the demand if you are to convert flying starts in the autumn into titles in May. Those familiar City rhythms were much in evidence in the early part of the second half, the weight of possession and the momentum theirs.
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