Pep Guardiola explained shelving his “horrible” first-half tactics allowed Manchester City to take command of their meeting with Arsenal and earn a 3-1 win that saw them leapfrog their opponents to the Premier League summit.
The score was all square at the interval after Bukayo Saka’s penalty cancelled out a deft opener from Kevin De Bruyne but Arsenal had held the upper hand for long periods, Bernardo Silva finding life particularly hard as a makeshift left-back. Silva moved to the right wing after the hour but Guardiola had already made some of the tweaks required to assume control.
