Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Manchester City merasakan deja vu saat bertemu Arsenal. Mereka menumbangkan The Gunners 3-0 pada lanjutan Liga Inggris di Emirates Stadium, Kamis (1/3/2018) atau Jumat (2/3/2018) WIB.
Manchester City sebelumnya juga menumbangkan pasukan Arsene Wenger pada final Piala Liga Inggris, Minggu (25/2/2018).
Kala itu Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany, dan David Silva mencetak gol bagi The Citizens. Kali ini giliran Bernardo Silva, David Silva dan Leroy Sane yang merobek gawang Arsenal.
Manchester City bahkan berpotensi meraih kemenangan lebih besar. Namun, usaha Aguero masih bisa dimentahkan kiper Petr Cech.
Hasil ini sekaligus menjadi momen bagus bagi pelatih Pep Guardiola. Dia meraih kemenangan pada laga ke-100 bersama The Citizens.
Berikut cuplikan video kesuksesan Manchester City atas Arsenal.
For Arsene Wenger it has come to this. Frozen to his seat, in the bitter cold, inside a half-empty stadium that he helped build, watching his Arsenal team being taken apart by a Manchester City side playing the kind of football he used to oversee and now appears nothing but a cruelly distant dream.
Throughout this nightmare Wenger did not move from the bench, maybe he feared if he did the abuse would focus even more angrily on him. In the desperately icy conditions it felt like the end. Wenger was beaten. He looked devastated. He did not even make a substitution. It was resigned. He needs to go. It was a perfect storm on a treacherous night.
Arsenal do not even feel like a top six team anymore. There is the top five and then there is Arsenal who are marooned 30 points behind the Premier League leaders Manchester City and, more relevantly, 10 points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur with just 10 matches to go. Finishing in the top four appears almost impossible meaning that their only chance of Champions League qualification is by winning the Europa League, with AC Milan their next opponents.
Focussing on Wenger should not detract from the poverty of performance put in by his team or the brilliance of City’s attacking play as they carved their opponents apart with the skill of a master sculptor. Each goal was a gem; a master-piece in its own right with City just too quick, too skilful, too incisive and summed up by the graceful trickery of Leroy Sane. Even then, in defence, they put their bodies on the line in the way that Arsenal players did not appear prepared to do while City did not even have to play that well – as with last Sunday’s Carabao Cup Final – to beat Arsenal. They repeated the scoreline but it felt even more emphatic.
Arsenal had the lifeline of a penalty, early in the second-half, when Nicolas Otamendi fouled Henrikh Mkhitaryan but that was taken so carelessly by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang that City goalkeeper Ederson made a comfortable save diving to his left. At the end Mesut Ozil slumped to his haunches, despondently, but neither he nor Mkhitaryan nor Aubameyang did enough. Not nearly enough.
