Peter Drury on Arsenal Vs Man city 1-0// poetic commentary🤩🔥🔥

Beautiful sunshine, the life, the energy of this place and the jewel of our day. October in London masquerading as July. Autumn waits its turn behind Arsenal City, the champions and those who dared to stare them in the eye. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Arteta and Guardiola can categorise each the other as either or both. Arteta has shaken by the hand, a brother he would no doubt gladly have shaken by the neck at times over these last three or four years. And this is the best of it. Last season's silver and gold. For weeks and months, Arsenal set the pace, led the race. But then when the moment came, City had the kick and the class to canter clear. And here they both are, at it all over again. Thomas Partey, whisked it forward towards Tommy Asu and Kai Havertz and not in the net! Arsenal might, Arsenal just might. Arsenal have cracked it. At last, Arsenal have cracked the City code. Arteta has it over Guardiola. And the race is ripped wide open. The champions of war. Gabriele Martinelli with an afternoon that was mean, ungenerous, stingy, locked in, was unlocked. It was the result that in these parts they began to believe would never come. Today, at City's expense, it did come. Pep Guardiola's face is grey, but North London is lit up. Spurs and Arsenal lead it into the international break. And for the second successive weekend, the champions have beaten. It's Arsenal's day, over City, by a goal to nil.