By any measure, Arsenal were patently not good enough against Manchester City in Sunday’s Carabao Cup final. Four days after facing off at Wembley, Arsenal host the Carabao Cup victors at the Emirates with revenge on the menu. Performances have been solid, even exhilarating at times, and they will need to repeat that when City come visiting. Most tackles in Carabao Cup final David Silva (Man City) 3 Danilo (Man City) 3 Hector Bellerin (Arsenal) 2 Calum Chambers (Arsenal) 2 Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) 2 Kevin De Bruyne (Man City) 2 Nicolas Otamendi (Man City) 2 ShareIn Sunday’s game, Arsenal attempted just 10 tackles – only two of which were made by midfielders (one apiece from Granit Xhaka and Aaron Ramsey). At the very least, Wenger will need to extract more energy and aggression from Xhaka and Ramsey.

Source: Metro March 01, 2018 06:56 UTC