Man City 1 – 3 Arsenal

Arsenal started well but almost found themselves behind after 5mins when Elano sent a dinked ball over the defence that was only inches from being put away by Ireland.
It wasn’t long before the visitors were in front. Sang made an incisive run into the box pulling back the ball to Adebayor who scrambled the ball home to make it 0-1 after 8mins.
City didn’t really respond and stuck to their counter-attacking gameplan as Arsenal continues to dominate. Petrov, on 24mins, with their most attacking move as he marauded down the left, past two Arsenal players but couldn’t find a finish.
A minute later Arsenal doubled there lead when Adebayor nodded down to Eduardo for the in-form striker to control on his chest and volley into the back of the net form 8 yards.
Still without much effort the home side responded when on 27mins Clichy failed to deal with a long ball and let Corluka in who set up Fernandes to pass the ball past Lehmann to make it 1-2.
Arsenal really looked in the mood for the remainder of the half and had several chances to extend their lead. Adebayor coming closest on 43mins when his headed effort was cleared off the line following a corner kick.
The home side continued to sit back in the second half with the visitors looking rampant. Twice City were lucky to stay in the game when, firstly on 57mins, Adebayor tee’d up Fabregas but the Spaniard’s normally reliable shooting let him down as he blazed over . And then on 63mins Adebayor was though and went down under pressure from Richards but rightly no penalty was awarded.
With three quarters of the game gone City finally began to step it up as the game got alot more physical. Both sides were looking to score and the game didn’t lack excitement but it was the visitors who were always the more likely to score. Adebayor and Fabregas both came close before, on 87mins, a clinical break put the match to bed. Several one-twos between Fabreas and Hleb opened up the space for Adebayor who slotted home from 12 yards out.
It’s hard to criticise City for their lack of ambition as they were up against a really flowing and in-form Arsenal side.