Arsenal forward, Gabriel Jesus has come out to explain what the club did differently against Manchester City to draw at the Etihad on Sunday. He recently compared the result to last season’s 4-1 defeat, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, playing against Manchester City at the Etihad is never easy, and even if he believed Arsenal should have won, it was always going to be difficult to win.
Gabriel Jesus added that the Gunners definitely played a defensive game, but that is football.
His words, “To play big games, you have to sometimes change your body language. To come here and play against [City] is not easy. We tried to win, I think we could have won. Maybe we played a different game to what we normally do, but sometimes football is like this. Each game is different.
We came last season and we suffered a lot, we conceded goals and we made some mistakes. So, to play against this team, normally it is hard and if you make some mistakes, it is even harder. Today was a bit different. We knew from the start at some point we had to suffer a little bit, [playing] deep. They are a team which loves the ball, we do as well, but sometimes it is difficult.”
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Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.
After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.
In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season, Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.
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