MATCH FACTS

Man City’s win means they will end New Year’s Day with an 11-point lead at the top of the Premier League table; in the competition’s history, only Man Utd in 1993-94 and City in 2017-18 (both 12 points) had a bigger lead at the end of January 1st in a season.

City manager Pep Guardiola has faced Arsenal more often in league competition without losing than any other team throughout his whole managerial career (P12 W11 D1 L0).

Since Mikel Arteta’s first game in charge on Boxing Day in 2019, Arsenal have scored 36 Premier League goals via players aged 21 or younger - eight more than any other team.

Bukayo Saka’s opener was only the second goal Man City have conceded during the opening 45 minutes of a Premier League game this season, and the first they’ve shipped on the road in the first half since May at Newcastle – that was 12 games ago.

Riyad Mahrez has scored in each of his last five appearances for Manchester City in all competitions, his best scoring run for an English side in his career.

42 percent of Arsenal’s 33 Premier League goals this season have been scored by either Bukayo Saka (6) or Emile Smith Rowe (8), the club’s two highest goalscorers in the competition.

Aged 20 years & 118 days, Bukayo Saka is the second-youngest

Arsenal player to score a Premier League goal against the reigning champions, after Nicolas Anelka v Manchester United in November

1997 (18y 240d).

Gabriel’s red card for Arsenal came via two yellow cards in the space of just 78 seconds – it was also the Gunners’ 100th Premier League sending off, the first team in the competition to reach this milestone total.

Rodri’s goal, timed at 92min 28sec, is Manchester City’s latest winning goal in a Premier League match since Gabriel Jesus v Southampton in May