We know Guardiola and this City team are very, very good at winning trophies. For the middle period they looked like a team in the grip of a collective amnesia. And when their own narrow range of variations fails all you really see are the absences in this Arsenal team. Forward, left, left, left, back, left stop. This Arsenal team have, at the very least, become deeply, unavoidably watchable.

Source: Irish Examiner March 22, 2026 21:12 UTC