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00:00Sevino, in for Haaland, chance for Haaland, GOAL FOR HAALAND!
00:11Double figures already for the season and a centurion of goals in record-breaking time
00:30for the mighty, magnificent, incomparable Erling Haaland.
00:42Well, the game plan I mentioned at the beginning of the game, that's exactly it there.
00:48Sevino wide, first movement is to come wide to offer himself that lovely first-time touch, breezes past Calafioye.
00:57Now you've got Arsenal stretched, the two centre-backs too far apart, Haaland sees the space and absolutely loves that.
01:04Look at him, he's on the turn, turns his back on the ball for a second and then looks for it,
01:09he knows where it's going to be fed and it's a sublime finish.
01:14He uses Raya and sees where he is, rather than passing with his left foot down the right-hand side of Raya,
01:23just toe-pokes it towards the near post, that's where the space is, but it's a brilliant work goal,
01:30tactically spot-on from start to finish, just keep trying to calm the players down afterwards.
01:36Arsenal have it with Martinelli.
01:40And this is Calafioye, oh what a beauty!
01:44And what a way to mark his first start as a gunner.
01:48Manchester City are incandescent, yellow card is out, but it's Arsenal who are celebrating
01:56and Calafioye ran straight towards the two benches.
02:06And this fizzing powder keg of a match is exploding in various directions now.
02:13Pep Guardiola is furious with his team, he's not at the moment furious with the referee,
02:21trying to see what the players were complaining about from Manchester City's perspective.
02:25Has he blown his whistle? I'm not sure he blew his whistle.
02:28He's allowed play to continue, Manchester City are all out of place but take nothing away
02:33from that finish. If he meant that, that is spectacular.
02:38When it was set back to him, I presume he was trying to cross this to the far post.
02:44He'll never admit it, but he looks a little bit surprised as that goes in.
02:53It's a brilliant finish if that's intended.
02:56Well let's face it, Graham, if you'd just done that, you wouldn't be saying to anyone that that was a cross, would you?
03:01No, that would go with me to my grave.
03:03But I'm into it.
03:06Real fury on the part of Guardiola and Manchester City.
03:12Edison was booked for his protests.
03:16Doku's swapped with Walker on Gabriel.
03:20Saka.
03:22And Gabriel!
03:25Two weekends running.
03:26A supreme set piece, same scorer, Gabriel, same source.
03:34And as we move into six minutes of Lexus stoppage time, Arsenal have come from behind.
03:39Arsenal have come from behind.
03:55The delivery is exceptional on both occasions. The first one was a sighter.
04:00The second one a goal. It's a brilliant ball in by Saka, a lot of whip.
04:03A lot of whip.
04:05Edison's crowded out in the six yard box.
04:08They block him off, three Arsenal players block him off.
04:12No foul in there.
04:16Gabriel gets another run at this far post. Gets away from Walker.
04:21He ends up unmarked.
04:23And anything will do there.
04:25Such is the quality of the delivery.
04:28City players around the referee, I think, hoping.
04:31And it is hope.
04:33The VAR spots a foul on Edison, but I think they're clutching at straws.
04:44The goal is going to stand.
04:47The crowd here being informed that there is a VAR check, but what we hear from
04:53the video assistant referee is that that has been checked and cleared.
04:58And Arsenal lead at the home of the team that they are desperate to unseat.
05:07And that is a challenge which is going to earn a second yellow card for Leandro Trossard.
05:16Another twist in this most dramatic of games.
05:20Trossard is sent off for two yellow card offences.
05:23Two yellow card offences, the second a clumsy foul on Bernardo Silva.
05:28And Arteta knows what that could mean in the overall context of the contest.
05:43I mean, it's beggars belief, to be honest.
05:47So now it's reckless force into someone's back.
05:53Given what we've seen so far, and I've mentioned three or four times about,
05:56he's set himself a problem, the referee, set a high bar
06:00in this opening 45 minutes.
06:03And that, in the context of the VAR, is well within the
06:09well within the limits, I suppose, of
06:15of a yellow card.
06:16Trossard is having to be levered off the pitch.
06:20He's really reluctant to go.
06:31Where he has to take some responsibility, Trossard, is that he's already on a yellow card, isn't he?
06:36So, making that sort of challenge in a neutral area like that
06:42is naive at best.
06:46But, players play to the environment.
06:49They play to the temperature that the referee sets.
06:52And within the current temperature of this game,
06:56that probably isn't a yellow card.
07:00And there are boos as Arteta chooses to give Trossard a hug.
07:05Well defended.
07:06Arsenal, a little slow to react to the short corner.
07:08Grealish.
07:11And it's Kovacic.
07:13And it's steered into the net.
07:15And City have found a way through.
07:20And that is the hallmark of champions.
07:24John Stones dancing the length of the field.
07:30And Arsenal, flat out, on their way to victory.
07:34And Arsenal, flat out, on their feet.