check out the ‘X-Ray’ of the Premier League match

manchester city x Arsenal It’s the game that will stop the world of football this Wednesday, the 26th. The teams face each other from 4 pm (Brasília time), at the Etihad Stadium, for the dispute of the 33rd round of the Premier League. The duel marks the clash between the leaders of the national competition leaderboard.

Check out the ‘X-Ray’ of the season:

Arsenal is the leader of the Premier League, with 75 points added. They are five ahead of their rivals this Wednesday, but the team leading by Mikel Arteta has two matches more than the team of Pep Guardiola. Thus, the Gunners play their lives in the duel to depend only on their own result to win the season title.

The Gunners are coming off three consecutive draws in the Premier League. The results allowed the arrival of vice-leader City, who still have two games behind. If they win the early ‘final’, Guardiola’s team will continue fighting point by point for the title, being able to take the lead of the table in the final straight, in case of victory in the two games to be played.

On the one hand, Manchester has the Norwegian’s artillery haaland. The striker is the team’s main attack weapon this season, with an incredible 48 goals and six assists in 42 games. Arsenal, on the other hand, is betting on the brightness of Sakawith 14 balls in the net and 11 decisive passes in 42 games.

Guardiola’s ‘customer’ Arsenal

In the direct confrontation, the history is favorable to Arsenal, that has 98 victories against 64 of the City. But the recent retrospective is all about Guardiola: since the Spanish coach arrived in the Premier League, he hasn’t known what it’s like to lose in charge of the Cityzens in the classics against the Gunners at the Etihad Stadium.

The team achieved the longest unbeaten streak in games against Arsenal. There were seven consecutive victories and, if they beat the Gunners this Wednesday, the 26th, that mark could even increase to eight matches.

The last time Arsenal managed to beat Guardiola’s Manchester City was on July 18, 2017, for the FA Cup, at the Emirates Stadium. Arteta was already the coach of the Gunners and counted on two goals from Aubameyang to beat the Cityzens by a difference of 2 to 0. After that, the team engaged in a sequence of seven defeats that lasts until today.

It is worth mentioning that, with that victory in 2017, at the Emirates Stadium, in the FA Cup, Arteta broke a sequence of seven defeats against Manchester City. The same can happen this Wednesday, the 26th, and the victory is more than welcome for the Londoners, as the three points ensured the maintenance of the team at the top of the Premier League.

---