After Southampton forced Arsenal to draw 1-1 in the 13th round of the English Premier League on Sunday, depriving them of the ninth victory at the local and international levels, Manchester City insisted on playing for them.
The Spanish coach Michel Arteta’s team went into the match with a one-point advantage over Manchester City after the latter defeated Brighton 3-1 on Saturday. However, he was unable to make up the four-point deficit after declaring satisfaction with the first tie of the season after nine wins and one loss, which came to Manchester United 1-3 on September 4th in the sixth stage.
Despite this stumbling, Arsenal is achieving its 28th points from 11 games, the best start of its season in the Premier League, but Artita bemoaned “wasting three or four good opportunities and we had to score. To end the game, we needed to score two or three goals, but we were happy with just one “.
Arsenal appeared on his way to his fifth victory in the league and thus expanding the difference again to four points with two matches postponed in his possession, one of them from the last stage against “City” in particular.
Swiss striker Granite Chaka opened the scoring for Arsenal in the 11th minute off a cross from Ben White, helping them advance at the end of the first half at the “Scient Mary” stadium.
However, Southampton took advantage of Artita’s lack of effectiveness in front of goal to tie the game up in the 65th minute with a stunning goal that came after a counterattack and several passes to get the ball to Scottish Stuart Armstrong from the Norwegian substitute with Moroccan ancestry, Mohamed Al-Younes. Armstrong then fired the ball into the goalkeeper Aaron Ramsadel’s net.
After that, Arsenal was unable to make further progress and was forced to settle for a point, which could prove to be detrimental to his efforts to win the title for the first time since 2004 and the era of French coach Arsene Wenger.
Source: Organizations.
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