The Gunners fell behind Man City at the top of the table during the match last night. Defender Erling Haaland: "To play against [Arsenal] is not easy, but we played an amazing game and got three really important points." Manchester City won 3-1 at the Emirates Stadium to go top of the Premier League, while Mikel Arteta rued his team's mistakes defensively.

Erling Haaland hailed City's performance as worthy of champions. At the interval, Kevin de Bruyne's brilliant opener was canceled out by Bukayo Saka's penalty after Takehiro Tomiya's error, But City dominated the second period and claimed the victory through goals from Jack Grealish and a 26th of the season from Haaland as Pep Guardiola's side ruthlessly punished more Arsenal sloppiness.

Haaland asked if he felt City had delivered the performance of a champion, told Amazon Prime: "City is, 'we' not me, are the champions so you can say so, yeah. “Small adjustment in half-time from Pep and in the end we have good quality players and we have to get it out of every player and we did today. "We have to play a little bit more like this sometimes and that is what we did today - I am so proud of every guy here and so happy to be here. "We can all agree [Arsenal] has been the best team this season so to come and play against them is not easy, but we played an amazing game and got three really important points - we are in it again."

Arteta described his side's performance as exceptional, saying they had City where they wanted them for long periods of the game, but bemoaned their defensive errors and their lack of ruthlessness in the final third. He said: "It's exceptionally difficult to play at the level they require you to play to have the chance to win and I think we've done it. In many moments, we had them. "But if you give three goals away the way we did, and just give them the game, and especially when you don't put big chances away, then the margin for error with them is almost zero. “It's a shame because we really had them."

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Oohhh

just as we expected...

Haaland was glorious!!! wow...

star boy!!!