Preview: Manchester City v Arsenal

We head to Manchester City on Friday night for our first meeting of the season with Pep Guardiola’s side, aiming to win at their home for the first time since January 2015.

Since then, City have defeated us in 13 of the 16 meetings under Pep Guardiola, but our two victories in that time have been at Wembley in FA Cup semi-final successes on our way to lifting the trophy in 2017 and 2020.

With a league encounter between the top two in the Premier League coming just 19 days after this one, both clubs will be looking to potentially gain an upper hand heading into that crunch game, as well as secure cup progress.

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