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City Hold Arsenal after a Pulsating 90 Minutes at The Emirates

Arsene Wenger and his wards left the Emirates Stadium disappointed and a heavy sense of regret after Arsenal’s failure to capitalise on Jack Wilshere and Alexis Sánchez’s brilliant goal to secure what would have been a memorable victory against Manchester City Saturday.

The two goals had turned the game upside down in 11 second-half minutes. Yet they will also know it might have been worse on a day when both sides could easily have won or lost and that culminated in a rare show of temper from Manuel Pellegrini.

Martín Demichelis’s late header ultimately spared Manchester City a second successive defeat but they still had time to hit the post twice during that wild, chaotic finale when their opponents seemed to be doing everything to prevent a home loss.

Arsenal limped to the finish but it would be unfair to reproach them too heavily when, earlier in the game, they had played as though affronted by their record against the top sides.

Wenger and his players had been reminded all week about their sorry run of results in these high-importance fixtures but there was no sense of a side with an inferiority complex.

They played with high skill and intensity and, more than that, they had to show considerable personality after going in behind at half-time to Sergio Agüero’s breakaway goal.