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Manchester City learn how to grind it out as Pep Guardiola's side put injuries behind them to edge out Mikel Arteta's Arsenal thanks to Raheem Sterling winner

Pep Guardiola went all Zen.

‘The mind and head can always control your body,’ he said, a mantra that should chime among a wounded Manchester City. ‘We had the willing to make more effort.’

The injuries, most of them muscular, keep coming —Aymeric Laporte, Kevin De Bruyne, Benjamin Mendy and Gabriel Jesus the headline absentees this week — but here was some fibre.

Pep Guardiola's injury hit Manchester City side edged past Arsenal 1-0 on Saturday evening
Raheem Sterling (middle) scored the winner as his good form against Arsenal continued

City ground out their victory and these strange times have left their manager reaching for different qualities.