Premier League leaders Manchester City continued their blistering form with a 3-1 victory over Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium.

Man City 3-1 Arsenal: Leaders continue unbeaten run with comfortable win


Manchester City, leader of the Premier League, continued its momentum by defeating Arsenal 3-1 at Etihad Stadium.

Kevin De Bruyne scored the opening (19) with a low effort left leg from 16 yards down the right bottom, and Sergio Aguero scored a 2-0 penalty (50th) after Raheem Sterling was pushed on the surface by Nacho Monreal.

Submarine Alexandre Lacazette halved the deficit thanks to Ederson's legs, but City regained its lead by two goals thanks to Gabriel Jesus (74), close to the shot despite the offside position of David Silva.
Player's notes
City of Man: Ederson (6), Walker (7), Stone (6), Otamendi (6), Delph (6), Fernandinho (7), Silva (8) Sane (7), De Bruyne (8), Sterling (7), Aguero (7)

Subs: Gundogan (6), Jesus (7), Silva (NA)

Arsenal: Cech (5) Bellerin (5), Monreal (4), Koscielny (5) Kolasinac (5), Coquelin (4), Xhaka (4), Ramsey (5), Ozil (4), Sanchez (5) , Iwobi (5)

Subs: Lacazette (6), Wilshere (NA), Giroud (NA)

Man of the match: David Silva
The result means that City is unbeaten in 23 matches in all competitions, while Arsenal ranks sixth in the leaders' 12 points.
Arsenal have not defeated any of their five major rivals on the road since winning in Etihad almost three years ago, and their struggles continued as the city attacked in numbers.
Aguero, who was given a pre-match honor guard after becoming the city's top scorer in the middle of the week, flashed at an early angle, while Leroy Sane's ball at the other end net was converted approximately for Sterling.
Team news
Alex Iwobi went to Arsenal instead of Alexandre Lacazette, while Francis Coquelin replaced Per Mertesacker, sick. Sergio Agüero went to the hosts, with Gabriel Jesus on the bench and Raheem Sterling in place of Bernardo Silva.

City took the lead 19 minutes with De Bruyne, who found the bottom right corner after a good double with Fernandinho, just 30 seconds after Petr Cech magnificently pushed the Belgian from a shot at 20 meters.
The hosts continued to build up pressure while the cheated Liberian Sane before Laurent Koscielny will deflect the ball into his own arc, but goalkeeper Ederson City was forced to take action on the first reader Aaron Ramsey.

Two minutes passed, just five minutes after the break, when Sterling took advantage of Monreal's advantage over Fernandinho's good pitch, forcing the Spaniard to push him away. Aguero approached and sent Cech in the wrong direction.
Lacazette was on the field just nine minutes before the net, hitting the ball after Ederson Ramsey and Cech kept Arsenal at the other end, blocking efforts to finish Jesus in the last message from a corner.
But Jesus gave City a break on the 16th minute of the final, finishing six meters from Silva's low center, but the midfielder was in the offside position from Fernandinho's initial pass to the right of the area.

Man of the match - David Silva

De Bruyne was firmly in the race, but Silva's typically chic spectacle did not go unnoticed.
The Spaniard was perfect on the ball, and even maintained his position with discipline to allow the fastest players in the city, Sane, De Bruyne and Sterling to bombard forward.
He has 64 hits in half the opposition, more than twice Mesut Ozil, Arsenal's highest score of 31, and he remains calm to set Jesus' third life goal for City.
Managers

Arsène Wenger: "I would say that in general the referee made the decision today, with the penalty of soft and the goal of offside.
"But we're used to coming here last year, they had two offside goals, and again, I think they're not working enough, because the level is going down every season right now.
"The physical level is very good, the decisions are not, in 2-1, we are in the game, and it gives an offside net, and of course, it kills the game".
Pep Guardiola: "The penalty kick was a penalty, the offside was out of the game but we won because we were better."
Opta stats
The 31 points of Manchester City and a difference of goals of +31 are the best games of the season in the Premier League after 11 games.
Arsenal has registered only one victory against the "Big Six" in the Premier League since the beginning of 2014/15, winning seven and losing 10.
The 52-goal victory for Manchester City is a record for a PL club after 17 games in all competitions (since 1992-93).
Since the start of last season, Arsenal have conceded 12 penalty goals, more than any other Premier League team.
And then?

After the international weekend, head to Leicester on November 18, while Arsenal will host Tottenham in North London on the same day, live in the Sky Sports Premier League at 12:30.

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