Arsenal vs Man City: Premier League – teams, start time, lineups

Who: Arsenal vs Manchester City
What: English Premier League
Where: Emirates Stadium successful London, United Kingdom
When: Sunday, September 21, astatine 4:30pm (15:30 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up connected Al Jazeera Sport from 1:30pm (12:30 GMT) successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.

Manchester City volition effort to decorativeness a challenging week unblemished erstwhile they sojourn an Arsenal broadside hoping to spot immoderate of its injured stars instrumentality to lucifer fitness.

City were dethroned arsenic champions by Liverpool past season, pursuing 4 successive rubric wins, portion the Gunners person finished 2nd successful the Premier League for 3 consecutive years.

Al Jazeera Sport takes a look astatine different early-season rubric showdown successful the English apical flight.

How are Man City shaping up successful the Premier League this season?

After a hard commencement to the season, City (2-2-0, 6 points) returned from the September planetary model successful awesome form.

Last weekend, Erling Haaland’s brace propelled City to a 3-0 location win implicit Manchester United, a effect that halted a two-match Premier League losing streak.

Then connected Thursday night, Haaland and Jeremy Doku scored aft halftime successful a 2-0 location triumph implicit reigning Serie A champions Napoli to unfastened their UEFA Champions League campaign.

City are 9 points down leaders Liverpool, who bushed Everton connected Saturday, successful the aboriginal standings arsenic manager Pep Guardiola’s reworked squad begins its bid to triumph different league title.

Guardiola, however, is inactive placing the astir value connected his squad’s wide improvement astatine the moment, alternatively than the match-by-match results.

“Seeing the squad increasing up, that is my lone interest close now, making a measurement forward,” helium said connected Friday. “We are not going to triumph the Premier League connected Sunday, and we are not going to suffer the Premier League connected Sunday.”

Manchester City’s Erling Haaland scores their 2nd extremity against Manchester United [Phil Noble/Reuters]

Man City points to irony of Arsenal’s concern drive

Guardiola has suggested Arsenal’s spending has not been held to the aforesaid level of scrutiny.

Arteta’s Arsenal broadside were bolstered by a close-season outlay exceeding 250 cardinal pounds ($337.3m), portion champions Liverpool spent much than 400 cardinal ($538.6m), including much than 100 cardinal ($134.7m) each connected Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak.

“The lone happening I privation to accidental to my person Mikel Arteta is, if helium wins the title, it volition beryllium conscionable due to the fact that helium spent money, not due to the fact that helium worked hard oregon due to the fact that of his players,” Guardiola said lingua successful feature of his erstwhile City adjunct coach.

“It’s similar Liverpool, too. If Arne [Slot] wins it again, it volition beryllium due to the fact that helium spent a batch of money, right? Because it’s not conscionable Man City that [spend], right?

“For many, galore years, each nine tin bash immoderate they want, you know? I cognize however they’ve been treated is wholly antithetic [to City], but what they privation to walk is due to the fact that they privation it and it’s fine.”

City spent astir 150 cardinal pounds ($202m) successful the close-season transportation window, adding to the 180 cardinal ($242.4m) they invested successful January.

What happened successful past season’s corresponding Arsenal-Man City clash?

City suffered a 5-1 defeat astatine The Emirates past season, and Guardiola said his squad look a stiff situation connected Sunday against an Arsenal broadside bolstered by the close-season signings of Eberechi Eze, Viktor Gyokeres and Martín Zubimendi.

“They spent what they judge they tin to vie against the champion teams successful the Premier League and Europe, and they’ve reached that level,” Guardiola said.

“[Arteta] recovered the nine successful a [certain] mode and step-by-step, window-by-window, Arsenal are getting better.

“Last play successful Europe, they made an unthinkable measurement forward, and they are for maine the astir coagulated team,” helium added, referring to Arsenal reaching the Champions League semifinals.

Manchester City’s Erling Haaland looks dejected aft Arsenal’s Thomas Partey scores their 2nd extremity successful the lucifer astatine Emirates Stadium past play [Peter Cziborra/Reuters]

How are Arsenal shaping up successful the Premier League this term?

Arsenal’s lone decision truthful acold came astatine Liverpool astatine the extremity of August successful a tightly contested 1-0 reverse decided by Dominik Soboszlai’s superb precocious escaped kick.

That is the lone extremity Mikel Arteta’s Gunners (3-1-0, 9 points) person conceded this season. They rebounded from the decision with a 3-0 location triumph against Nottingham Forest successful the league past play and a 2-0 Champions League triumph astatine Athletic Club successful Bilbao, Spain, connected Tuesday.

Arsenal question to support their chill for Man City’s visit

Arteta expects Arsenal to larn from Myles Lewis-Skelly’s provocative solemnisation against Manchester City past play erstwhile the rubric rivals clash for the archetypal clip successful this campaign.

Arsenal defender Lewis-Skelly mocked City striker Haaland by copying his zen extremity solemnisation aft scoring successful the Gunners’ 5-1 rout of Guardiola’s broadside successful February.

With Arsenal falling conscionable abbreviated successful rubric fights with City successful 2023 and 2024, the rivalry betwixt the clubs has grown progressively acrimonious.

Haaland had taunted Arsenal brag Arteta by urging him to “stay humble” pursuing a stormy 2-2 draw astatine the Etihad Stadium earlier past season.

Teenager Lewis-Skelly, who has not started a crippled for Arsenal this season, was criticised for his inflammatory celebration.

Asked if helium had spoken to his players astir their extremity celebrations earlier Sunday’s showdown, Arteta told reporters, “Well, that was done, and that’s portion of it.

“There person been a batch of celebrations oregon non-celebrations successful the past from a batch of teams. The acquisition is to larn and turn arsenic well, and we surely learnt from that.”

Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly clashes with Manchester City’s Erling Haaland, 2nd right, during the gathering successful Manchester past play [Molly Darlington/Reuters]

Arsenal squad news

There is simply a accidental that guardant Bukayo Saka, midfielder Martin Odegaard and defender Ben White could each enactment this play for the Gunners aft caller injuries.

“Everything has been modified truthful acold for them [in training],” Arteta said of the trio. “There are inactive a fewer things to clear, and [Saturday,] we’ll person much accusation connected whether they are portion of the squad oregon if they person a accidental to beryllium portion of the squad.”

Saka, who scored 47 Premier League goals crossed the erstwhile 4 seasons, has not played since the 2nd play owed to a hamstring issue. However, Arsenal’s reinforcements person helped upwind his absence, including striker Gyorkeres, who has a team-high 3 league goals truthful far.

Gyokeres is expected to beryllium disposable aft needing stitches for a caput wounded sustained pursuing a clash of heads with teammate Gabriel Magalhaes. Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz stay sidelined.

Man City squad news

England planetary John Stones could instrumentality to the backmost enactment pursuing muscular discomfort that has kept him retired of the side.

Rayan Cherki remains retired with musculus issues, portion Omar Marmoush and Rayan Ait-Nouri are besides absent.

Arsenal predicted starting lineup

Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori; Merino, Zubimendi, Rice; Madueke, Gyokeres, Martinelli

Manchester City predicted starting lineup

Donnarumma; Khusanov, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly; Rodri, Silva, Reijnders; Foden, Haaland, Doku

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