Defending champions Manchester City poured their anger at Arsenal by sweeping them 3-0 thanks to the brilliance of Belgian Kevin de Bruyne on Sunday in the 17th round of the English Football League.
In the back of the artillery house, City showed a glimpse of the level that won the league title in the past two seasons led by Spanish coach Pep Guardiola, by sweeping Arsenal in the fifth match of the last led by his Swedish coach, Freddy Leungberg, who succeeded Spaniard Unai Emery.
Certainly, the sixth fall for Arsenal in front of City (including the loss of the League Cup final in 2018), and freezing its balance at 22 points in ninth place, will hold the life of Youngberg at a time when the glimmer of hope returned to the title holders after they fell in the last stage on their land in front of arch-rival United 1-2.
Despite this wide win, City are still very far from leaders Liverpool, 14 points behind the defending champion, who managed to reduce the difference that separates them from Leicester II to 4 points, before the expected match between them on Saturday at Al-Ittihad Stadium, due to the 2016 draw. With Norwich 1-1 Saturday.
City announced its intentions early by opening the score less than two minutes after the start, via De Bruyne, who fired the ball into the roof of the net after it reached Brazilian Gabriel Jesus.
Arsenal's mission was complicated a lot after City added the second goal in the 16th minute following a team game and a series of wonderful passes that started from the Citizens region, through which the ball reached De Bruyne, the incursion on the left side, after he exchanged it with Jesus, and the Belgian reversed it to the far post where Rahim followed Stirling in the net.
The London club suffered an additional blow with the injury of its Bosnian defender Siad Kulasinac, but before Leungberg had the opportunity to replace him with Bukayo Saka who was not ready to enter, De Bruyne added his second personal goal and City's third goal with a superb shot from inside the area to the right of German goalkeeper Bernd Leno (40) ).