After another masterclass from the selfless Ozil, social media reacted with a hilarious range of memes and pictures.
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“We demonstrated character: when you are losing 2-0 against a very good team as Arsenal and you continue trying to score and you have three or four clear options, when you have 20 shots here playing away, and especially losing 2-0 it is easier for the team that is winning”.
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Pellegrini sent on Raheem Sterling for Delph at the break, but despite an improvement in City’s play, Aguero sending a couple of tame efforts at Cech, they remained alarmingly porous at the back.
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However it wasn’t enough as the Gunners held on and move to within two points of Leicester with City a further four points adrift in third.
In the past, the £42.4million signing from Real Madrid has frustrated Arsenal fans for floating in and out of matches, but he was given a standing ovation when replaced against City.
For Manchester City, they’re facing a record breaking run if they want to be crowned champions, as no side has won the league after losing five games before Christmas since 1986.
Mesut Ozil: Just oozes class. Industrious throughout and always looking for the key pass. Collected two more assists in what is turning into a stellar season.
City pressed to try and find an equaliser before the interval but gifted Arsenal a second in stoppage time when Eliaquim Mangala’s sloppy pass was pounced on and Ozil subsequently played in Giroud down the left of the area and he fired low past Hart into the far corner.
He revealed that Mesut Ozil, who set up both Arsenal’s goals, had barely trained all week because of illness. “You earn the right to win these games and it is important to realize you must fight for every game”.
Too often in the past, this was exactly the kind of game where Arsenal would have floundered, apparently lacking the self-belief and mental durability to stand shoulder to shoulder with one of their biggest rivals.
However, Arsene Wenger’s teams in the recent past have a history of capitulation in pressurised circumstances at a certain point of the season, and they were probably somewhat fortunate on Monday, as they handed Man City the initiative late on and sat back deep in their own half.
Hart could have easily kept out Olivier Giroud shot, only he needed to do was close his legs.
“So it was a bit against the game but we had to keep going to defend well as a team and we conceded before half time”.
Theo Walcott: Opened the scoring with a beauty of a strike, burying the ball into the bottom corner.
He added: “I’m happy to help the team”.
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Joe Hart: May feel that he should have done better for Giroud’s goal, but more than made amends with saves to deny Campbell and Ramsey. We had more possession, more attempts, more shots on target.
