{"id":160622,"date":"2025-09-22T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160622\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:27:08","slug":"premier-league-reaction-have-arsenal-got-a-title-winning-mentality-after-draw-with-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160622\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League reaction: Have Arsenal got a title-winning mentality after draw with Man City?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did Arsenal start too cautiously?published at 09:07 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:07 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Arsenal 1-1 Man City<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mikel Arteta had no choice but to throw on more attacking players in the second half as his Arsenal side chased an equaliser at home to Manchester City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But did the Gunners boss start too cautiously?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spaniard began the game with three defensively-minded central midfielders in Martin Zubimendi, Declan Rice and Mikel Merino. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal&#8217;s starting XI: Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori; Merino, Zubimendi, Rice; Madueke, Gyokeres, Trossard <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eberichi Eze replaced Merino at the start of the second half in a double substitution that also saw Noni Madueke make way for Bukayo Saka on his return from injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With 10 minutes remaining, Arteta sacrificed right-back Jurrien Timber for eventual goalscorer Gabriel Martinelli, while Leandro Trossard was replaced by Ethan Nwaneri four minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the eighth minute of stoppage time, Arteta reverted to four defenders, replacing Zubimendi with Christian Mosquera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal&#8217;s finishing XI: Raya; Saliba, Gabriel, Mosquera, Calafiori; Martinelli, Rice, Eze, Nwaneri, Saka; Gyokeres <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gabriel Martinelli celebrates scoring\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0330d5fa-9262-4a2a-9e58-3d2f4c99e69e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"734\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did Arsenal start too cautiously?published at 09:07 BST 09:07 BST Arsenal 1-1 Man City Mikel Arteta had no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-160622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}