It was another chastening night for Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium. In a Premier League-deciding heavyweight clash the Gunners couldn't lay a glove on Manchester City.
The verdicts afterwards were equally brutal from the pundits. "Honestly, it’s the acid test when you play Man City now," Martin Keown told BT Sport after the game. "Haaland and De Bruyne, they're at another level now. When those big games come around the players have really performed at a higher level and the whole stadium is used to winning things here now. City and Arsenal, you could see a huge gap between the two clubs and Arsenal are probably about 10 years behind them."
This though feels unfairly harsh on a Gunners side who are clearly closing the gap on City. There is one issue though that Mikel Arteta needs to fix in order to overtake his former mentor Pep Guardiola.
