Five days away from the vital Manchester City away match (70 points) that could define the title of the Premier League, the Arsenal (75) rescued a point in the 3-3 draw at home against bottom club Southamptonat the start of the 32nd day of the English league.
Los The Gunners’ five-point advantage over the Citizens is misleading since those led by Pep Guardiola have two games less. Both teams they will collide on wednesday in what is practically a ‘final’ for the title.
At the Etihad Stadium The team led by Mikel Arteta, who is throwing away the advantage he had achieved during a large part of the championship, will face a City in great momentwho is capable of winning 25 of the last 27 points.
The Argentinian Carlos Alcaraz was the protagonist in the first two goals for Southampton. First took the opportunity to score after an error by the goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale at 30 seconds and later assisted ex-Gunners player Theo Walcottto make it 2-0.
After the start of terror, Ukrainian Oleksandr Zinchenko called an emergency meetingwith all the players in the middle of the field looking for the recipe to try to avoid the debacle.
the harangue It had an immediate effect and a great collective play was converted by the Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli volleyed.
Already in the second part the Croatian center-back Duje Caleta-Car, alone at the far post after a corner, seemed to be the sentence for Southampton 25 minutes from the end.
But the Gunners saved a point thanks to their stars Martin Odegaard, at 43, and Bukayo Saka, at 45.
Two minutes later the Belgian Leandro Tossard shot from 18 meters and hit the crossbar in what would have been 4-3 for the leader.
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