Here’s Mikel Arteta’s take on today’s game

We all know we need a big performance to beat them… We want to improve in certain areas but in order to do that it’s important that we have to be much, much better. We have been really open about discussing that. But the chances have to be created because the process has to be good.

There is, of course, no definitive answer. Had Arsenal opened up, that might have handed a chance to City, lifted them above Arsenal and had everybody condemning Arteta for his hubris. It’s not a case of right and wrong but, with hindsight, and given that at the time of the Arsenal game, City hadn’t won any of eight matches against the sides who would finish in the top six, might that have been an opportunity missed?

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