{"id":37370,"date":"2025-09-21T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/arsenal-dominates-city-but-draws-arteta-defends-strategy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:10:10","slug":"arsenal-dominates-city-but-draws-arteta-defends-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/arsenal-dominates-city-but-draws-arteta-defends-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Dominates City, but Draws: Arteta Defends Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Arteta Defends Team Selection Despite Draw Against Manchester City<\/h2>\n\nMikel Arteta, Arsenal&#8217;s technical director, defended his team&#8217;s selection in the 1-1 draw against Manchester City, stating that his team &#8220;completely dominated&#8221; the game, despite not achieving a complete victory after recording record possession against Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team.\n\nArsenal are now five points behind leaders Liverpool after a late goal from Gabriel Martinelli rescued a draw at the Emirates, following Erling Haaland&#8217;s opener for City.\n\nArteta&#8217;s team was so dominant that it recorded 67.2% possession during the 90 minutes, the highest percentage ever recorded against a team managed by Guardiola.\n\n\n<p>Despite leaving key players like Eberechi Eze, Bukayo Saka and Martinelli on the bench, Arteta rejected suggestions that his starting lineup lacked ambition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I leave it to you [to decide], but there were many offensive players on that team.<\/p><cite>Mikel Arteta<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nArteta added: &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to say that, but we started the match very well and dominated completely. City scored a goal and then did nothing. Everyone tries to give their best to get a result, that&#8217;s fine.\n\nWe controlled the game and dominated, and the second half was the same. I am extremely proud of my players and the team, but very disappointed with the result. The pride I feel is that we dominated the game.&#8221;\n\nRegarding striker Viktor Gy\u00f6keres, Arteta commented that the reason he didn&#8217;t manage a shot against City was that his team couldn&#8217;t find the key pass for the Swedish international.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0921%2Fr1549005_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Manager Mikel Arteta said Arsenal controlled the game against City.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El entrenador Mikel Arteta dijo que el Arsenal control\u00f3 el juego contra el City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n&#8220;There were many very good balls in the area and he [Gy\u00f6keres] was very close to them. Against City, it&#8217;s very difficult to get clear chances. There were many situations, the opportunities were there, but the final pass was missing.&#8221;\n\nDespite Arsenal being five points behind Liverpool, Arteta is confident that his players will be &#8220;fine&#8221; in the title race.\n\n&#8220;We can&#8217;t control that. They [Liverpool] win every game. It&#8217;s going to be very difficult, but if we play at this level, like we did against Manchester City, we&#8217;ll be fine.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arteta Defends Team Selection Despite Draw Against Manchester City Mikel Arteta, Arsenal&#8217;s technical director, defended his team&#8217;s selection in the 1-1 draw against Manchester City, stating that his team &#8220;completely dominated&#8221; the game, despite not achieving a complete victory after recording record possession against Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team. 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