Arsenal 1-1 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 21 September 2025

Result

Arsenal 1-1 Manchester City

Premier League · Sunday 21 September 2025, 15:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Arsenal 1-1 Manchester City: match report

Arsenal drew with Manchester City 1-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 21 September 2025. The half-time score was 0-1.

Erling Haaland opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Arsenal's goal came from Gabriel Martinelli (90+3'). Manchester City scored through Erling Haaland (9').

Discipline: Arsenal received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Arsenal were 4th on 9 points from 4 and Manchester City 12th on 6 points from 4. Arsenal went on to finish that season 1st with 85 points, and Manchester City 2nd with 78.

Arsenal lined up in a 4-3-3 and Manchester City in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Declan Rice of Arsenal (7.6), ahead of Tijjani Reijnders (7.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Arsenal wins, 2 draws and 6 for Manchester City.

Going into the match Arsenal's last five read W-L-W-W and Manchester City's W-L-L-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Erling HaalandManchester City · 0-1
  • 36'Yellow card · Bernardo SilvaManchester City
  • 46'Yellow card · Jurriën TimberArsenal
  • 68'Yellow card · Pep GuardiolaManchester City
  • 77'Yellow card · Gianluigi DonnarummaManchester City
  • 90+3'Goal · Gabriel MartinelliArsenal · 1-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Arsenal 2, draws 2, Manchester City 6.

Team news

Arsenal line-up (4-3-3)

David Raya, Jurriën Timber, William Saliba, Gabriel, Riccardo Calafiori, Mikel Merino, Martín Zubimendi, Declan Rice, Noni Madueke, Viktor Gyökeres, Leandro Trossard

Manchester City line-up (4-1-4-1)

Gianluigi Donnarumma, Abdukodir Khusanov, Rúben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Nico O'Reilly, Rodri, Phil Foden, Bernardo Silva, Tijjani Reijnders, Jérémy Doku, Erling Haaland