The title race is still firmly, exhilaratingly on: Manchester City required all three points to keep their breath hot on the necks of Arsenal and they did the business supremely in a second-half show of might, even if the leaders responded later in the afternoon.
Having fallen behind to Mohamed Salah’s smash-and-grab opener, Julián Álvarez equalised from Jack Grealish’s pass to make it 1-1 at the break. Then City showed why they are the champions of the past two seasons and the dominant, garlanded side of this era.
