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<\/p>\nHow football.london rated the Arsenal player performances after the Premier League clash with Manchester City<\/p>\n
18:25, 19 Apr 2026Updated 18:33, 19 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
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Gabriel clashed with Erling Haaland<\/p>\n
Arsenal fell at Manchester City to leave the Premier League title race on a knife-edge. There is just a single goal in it if Pep Guardiola\u2019s side manages to win their game in hand, and could go top when they play Burnley at Turf Moor.<\/p>\n
City took the lead through Rayan Cherki after some magical footwork and finish. However, seconds later, a mistake from Gianluigi Donnarumma gifted Kai Havertz the chance to steal in and score. A great game for the neutrals, the Gunners were pleased to go in level at the break.<\/p>\n
Despite having plenty of chances, with Kai Havertz going through and Eberechi Eze hitting the post, it was that man Erling Haaland who struck. Gabriel, who had played the game with plenty of emotion was lucky to avoid a red card, clashing with Norwegian.<\/p>\n
Here is how football.london rated the performances of the Arsenal players involved:<\/p>\n
David Raya \u2013 Early moment of nerves from the Spanish keeper as he nearly gave the ball to Haaland. For both goals he was well beaten and could do little about it. 5<\/p>\n
Cristhian Mosquera \u2013 Saw a header from an early corner headed wide and was booked in the first half for persistent fouling as he struggled to contain Doku. But in the end, it was replaced, having done relatively well. 7<\/p>\n
William Saliba \u2013 Was lucky to see the referee blow his whistle, but had he not, the Frenchman made a big goal-line clearance. Overall he had a good game. 7<\/p>\n
Gabriel \u2013 Huge block to prevent Rayan Cherki from giving the home side the lead, deflecting it onto the post. Lost the battle with Haaland for City\u2019s second on the day. Might have been lucky in the end not to receive a red card. 5<\/p>\n
Piero Hincapie \u2013 Produced a wonderful block on Semenyo to prevent a chance from close range. Ran all day long and did well to shut down Semenyo. 7<\/p>\n
Martin Zubimendi \u2013 Definitely one of the Spaniard\u2019s better games, and needed to be in the biggest of contests. 7<\/p>\n
Declan Rice \u2013 The engine of the midfield but couldn\u2019t find his presence on the ball in the midfield enough in the key moments. 6<\/p>\n
Martin Odegaard \u2013 Welcomed back into the side, the four-man City \u2018press\u2019 if it can be called that, was dealt with far better as the Gunners captain could drop in to receive and progress the ball. Found the two passes for two huge chances but there was a sense that overall he still didn\u2019t have the desired impact in the game. 6<\/p>\n
Noni Madueke \u2013 Had a few runs down the right-hand side, but couldn\u2019t find his way through and was taken off at half-time by Arteta. 5<\/p>\n
Kai Havertz \u2013 The press paid off for Havertz, getting his foot on Donnarumma\u2019s attempted clearance to see the ball rebound into the net. Set through into the box by Odegaard, he saw his shot saved by Donnarumma and was beaten in a race for a one-on-one with Bernardo Silva. headed over a late chance that could have earned a point. 7<\/p>\n
Eberechi Eze \u2013 Was sadly at fault for the first goal, backing out of a challenge and getting punished as Cherki went through to score. Went close to scoring the Gunners\u2019 second, turning onto his left foot and curling one against the post. The decision to take him off over Odegaard left many baffled. 7<\/p>\n
Substitutes:<\/p>\n
Gabriel Martinelli \u2013 Coming on at half-time in place of Madueke and immediately made the error of giving the ball away centrally, which led to Haaland\u2019s chance, hitting the post from a resulting corner. 5<\/p>\n
Ben White \u2013 Had little to no effect on the game. 4<\/p>\n
Leandro Trossard \u2013 Came on and provided the late cross which could have got Arsenal the result they so desired. 6<\/p>\n
Viktor Gyokeres \u2013 Came on late in the game and had little effect on the outcome. 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How football.london rated the Arsenal player performances after the Premier League clash with Manchester City 18:25, 19 Apr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[8086,8089,8088,8094,8098,8091,8097,27,8087,8095,8093,2832,8096,8092,5430,8090],"class_list":{"0":"post-17453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-arsenal-vs-manchester-city","9":"tag-cristhian-mosquera","10":"tag-david-raya","11":"tag-declan-rice","12":"tag-ebere-eze","13":"tag-gabriel-magalhaes","14":"tag-kai-havertz","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-manchester-city-vs-arsenal","17":"tag-martin-odegaard","18":"tag-martin-zubimendi","19":"tag-mikel-arteta","20":"tag-noni-madueke","21":"tag-piero-hincapie","22":"tag-premier-league-title-race","23":"tag-william-saliba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116435071973795891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}