The apprentice fails to outdo the master once again
Going into this game Mikel Arteta's record against his former mentor Pep Guardiola was nothing short of abysmal. Save for an FA Cup semi final upset in 2020, Arteta had never beaten the man he once worked under at Manchester City and across eight games his Arsenal sides had only scored twice.
Arteta though might quite rightly argue, he had never faced Guardiola with a squad as good as the one he has now. It has taken some time for Arsenal to get to a position where they go into games against sides like City feeling confident of the win, but as the Premier League's two best sides faced off at the Emirates, it was tough to place a cigarette paper between them before kick off.
