Head-to-head – Haaland & De Bruyne masterclass inflicts title blowpublished at 13:07 BST<\/p>\n
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Man City 4-1 Arsenal (Apr, 2023)<\/p>\n
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Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland ‘bullied’ Arsenal defenders<\/p>\n
Cue shudders from Arsenal fans, players and manager at the very mention of the Gunners’ last Premier League defeat to Manchester City, when the home side delivered a masterclass to strike a huge psychological blow in the 2022-23 title race.<\/p>\n
This confrontation was also billed as a potential title-decider, but turned into an embarrassingly one-sided affair.<\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola’s side moved two points behind Arsenal with two games in hand after being inspired by the devastating partnership of Erling Haaland and Kevin de Bruyne.<\/p>\n
Haaland sent De Bruyne away for a silky opener after seven minutes, and Arsenal then survived a constant bombardment of attacks before John Stones headed home from a free-kick in first-half stoppage time, the goal given by VAR after originally being ruled offside.<\/p>\n
City goal machine Haaland was outstanding throughout and again set up De Bruyne for the third in the 54th minute, the Belgian passing a classy finish between the legs of Gunners defender Rob Holding.<\/p>\n
Holding pulled one back for Arsenal late on before Haaland, denied four times by Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale earlier in the match, sealed a memorable night with his 49th City goal.<\/p>\n
City would go on to win the title by five points from Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head-to-head – Haaland & De Bruyne masterclass inflicts title blowpublished at 13:07 BST 13:07 BST Man City 4-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-601239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}