Erling Haaland had one of those afternoons but was hardly alone in a game from which Liverpool most benefitted
erhaps in years to come those who were present at the Etihad Stadium for this extended headlock, football reimagined as a complex and lingering Sunday hangover, will say I was there whenWhat to say about a game that wasn’t really a game, a decider that decided very little, beyond keeping the Premier League title race still tantalisingly open? What happened here anyway?was like watching someone sit a high‑level engineering exam. Intricate, unknowable things seemed to be happening.
In between it was novel and even quite comforting to see a football match so devoid of content. City had 75% possession in the first half, total territorial dominance, but only one shot on target. Some 56 tackles were attempted in this game. There were 28 clearances. But Arsenal also probably won’t have many better chances to actually win at City’s home. And here they played a different kind of game to the one that brought all those victories since the winter sun break. Arsenal’s big thing is intensity, what L’Equipe has called “controlled euphoria”. This has involved starting quickly, hitting their opponents with that straight up red blitz, the press led with a kind of mania by Martin Ødegaard.
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