✔ FT:Man City 1-1 Arsenal Match Thread✔

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Team News

Man City : Hart ; Zabaleta, Kompany , Lescott, Clichy ; Garcia, Yaya Toure; Silva, Aguero , Sinclair (Rodwell 45), Dzeko (Tevez 68)

Subs:Pantilimon, Kolarov, Nastasic, Barry, Rodwell, Tevez, Balotelli

Arsenal: Mannone , Jenkinson , Mertesacker, Koscielny , Gibbs, Arteta , Diaby, Cazorla , Ramsey , Podolski , Gervinho.

Subs Martinez, Djourou , Santos, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Walcott, Giroud.

What they’ve said

Abou Diaby
“Robin helped me last season.
“We used to talk about my situation and what he had been through, and he would give me some advice.
“He would tell me to keep going and make sure I completed my treatment.
“It was ¬helpful because he had the same experience as well.
“He got over his injuries, kept going and at the end he became one of the best players in the world. It shows me what can be done and it gives me inspiration."
“To be honest, four years ago I did think about giving up and that I would never come back," said Diaby, who has never heard from Smith or received an apology.
“It was getting too much. I was not ¬enjoying myself and I could not see the point to ¬continue. I didn’t speak to the manager about it, I kept it to myself.
“I was having some bad ideas cross my mind and I had to fight against that. The first question I used to get asked when I saw ¬supporters in the street was ‘when will you be back’ or ‘how is the injury?’.
“It’s nice ¬people are concerned, but when things were bad I was embarrassed.
“So ¬instead of telling them the truth I’d always just say ‘I don’t know’, even if I knew it would be a long time.
“It is difficult when you hear people call you a ‘crock’ or ‘injury prone’, but at the same time I understand, because the fans want their players to be available and they want their team to win."
Mikel Arteta
“We need to learn to win ugly sometimes,"
“There are parts in the game that you cannot dominate for a number of reasons — you are a man down, you are playing against a good team, physically they overpower you, for whatever reason. But you get through that and you are still winning.
“And that’s a good habit. Winning."
“When I was hearing that he might be coming I was texting him and saying, ‘Come here, because you will enjoy it’," Arteta says of Cazorla, the £16 million recruit from Malaga with whom he has immediately connected on — and off — the pitch.
“I knew he was the type of player everyone was going to love here, and that he’d suit the team and the way we want to play. He’s a different player, the way he moves and uses the ball with both feet, his size you know ... You look at him and say, ‘Wow’. He’s special and talented."
His Arsenal team-mates were also immediately impressed. “They were like, ‘Wow, he’s good eh?’" Arteta laughs, remembering their reaction to seeing the playmaker in his first training session. Indeed the training ground has been even more important for Arsenal this summer. “Small details," according to Arteta, have changed. The team has “tightened up" — tactically but also mentally.
“We look stronger as well," Arteta explains. “We had periods against Montpellier when we were hanging in and suffering, but when you go through stages like that and you still manage to get the result and win, it gives you a lift because you can’t always play nice football and win easy.
“Sometimes when you play ugly and win that will give you six, nine, 10 points at the end of the season and that will make a big difference."
Top Scorers

Man City

Carlos Tevez 4
Edin Dzeko 3
Yaya Toure 3

Arsenal

Gervinho3
Lukas Podolski 3
Santi Cazorla 1

Form Table

Man City - WDWDL 10/15

Arsenal - DDWWW 11/15

Head to Head

Arsenal Wins 89
Draws 40
Man City 45

Recent Record

8/4/2012 Arsenal 1-0 Man City
18/12/2011 Man City 1-0 Arsenal
29/11/2011 Arsenal 0-1 Man City
4/1/2011 Arsenal 0-0 Man City

Stats

Good Stats
• There have been just six goals scored in the past six matches between these sides in all competitions, with all three meetings last season ending 1-0
• If Arsenal do not concede, they will have kept three clean sheets in a row away from home in the league for the first time since May 2005
• City have allowed opposing teams just 11 shots on target against them so far this season – only Arsenal (10) have a better record

• Roberto Mancini’s side has only scored 1 goal in the league against Arsenal in the league in 5 meetings

Bad Stats
• City are unbeaten in 10 league games since Arsenal beat them 1-0 at the Emirates in April, which was also the last time they failed to score
• Arsenal have won just one of the past 14 league games they have played with Mike Dean as the referee

GOOAAAALLLS

Lescott 40
Kossy 80

Bookings

Rules

1. Comment✔
2. No fake scorelines✔
3. Be fickle✔
4. Hate the s✔
5. No Scousers✔
6. ✔
7. COYG✔
8. No posting pictures of the in his Man Utd clothes ✔
9. No Mancs ✔

Links
http://www.str3amtv.pt.am
http://www.vipbox.tv/
http://slipstreamtv2.blogspot.com/
http://www.sportlemon.tv/c-1.html
http://www.tvcatchup.com
http://www.atdhenet.tv/

Venue
UAE of England