Manchester City 1-1 Arsenal: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 8 May 2016

Result

Manchester City 1-1 Arsenal

Premier League · Sunday 8 May 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Manchester City 1-1 Arsenal: match report

Manchester City drew with Arsenal 1-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 8 May 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Sergio Agüero opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Sergio Agüero (8') and Kevin De Bruyne (51'). Arsenal scored through Olivier Giroud (10') and A. Sánchez (68').

Discipline: Manchester City received 2 yellow cards; Arsenal received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 4th on 62 points from 36 and Arsenal 3rd on 66 points from 36. Manchester City went on to finish that season 5th with 64 points, and Arsenal 3rd with 70.

Manchester City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Arsenal in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Kevin De Bruyne of Manchester City (9.0), ahead of Olivier Giroud (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Manchester City wins, 3 draws and 4 for Arsenal.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Sergio AgüeroManchester City · 1-0
  • 10'Goal · Olivier GiroudArsenal · 1-1
  • 51'Goal · Kevin De BruyneManchester City · 2-1
  • 68'Goal · A. SánchezArsenal · 2-2
  • 71'Yellow card · Gabriel PaulistaArsenal
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Nicolás OtamendiManchester City
  • 90+2'Yellow card · FernandinhoManchester City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Manchester City 3, draws 3, Arsenal 4.

Team news

Manchester City line-up (4-4-2)

Joe Hart, Bacary Sagna, Nicolás Otamendi, Eliaquim Mangala, Gaël Clichy, Jesús Navas, Fernandinho, Fernando, Kevin De Bruyne, Kelechi Iheanacho, Sergio Agüero

Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)

Petr Čech, Héctor Bellerín, Gabriel Paulista, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Mohamed Elneny, Aaron Ramsey, Alexis Sánchez, Alex Iwobi, Danny Welbeck, Olivier Giroud