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Arsenal get the game underway, kicking from left to right. Both teams wear their normal colours.
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Fabregas is already pulling off a back-heel pass. He started a move that Song failed to finish with s scuffed shot from the edge of the box.
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What a start to this game. Wilshere fires a cross/shot across the face of goal and two Arsenal players fail to turn it into the open goal.
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City break and then Milner curls a shot wide of Fabianski's far post. If the game carries on like this I'll have stubs for fingers.
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Arsenal look well up for this.
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Tevez sets up Milner but a terrible touch from the former Aston Villa man means the shooting chance has gone.
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The game has settled down a bit now. City are happy to keep possession in their half, just to take the sting out of Arsenal's eager start.
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Walcott has a chance to run at the defence but bottles it.
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Song tackles Tevez. Arsenal attack. Van Persie shoots from outside the box and hits the post!
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Wilshere ghosts past two players and sets up Walcott, who shoots straight at Kolo Toure.
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Fabregas sets up Wilshere following a goal-mouth scramble but the youngster can't beat City goalkeeper Joe Hart.
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City boss Mancini is desperately trying to organise his rag-tag mob.
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There is much head shaking going on in the City ranks, but when they do get forward they look dangerous.
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Walcott tracks back to tackle Zabaleta.
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A slick City move breaks down after a poor touch from Nigel "the hatchet man" De Jong.
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Van Persie is chopped down by Jo and Arsenal have a freekick just outside the City box...
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...Van Persie will take it...
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After the long wait it is possibly the worst freekick I have ever seen. It came down with snow on it.
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A delayed fall from Yaya is enough to win a comical freekick after a foul by Fabregas.
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Song gets the ball away under pressure and Walcott wins a throw deep in City's half... which is wasted.
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Walcott races into the box and hits the deck with Jo tracking him. No appeal for a penalty from the England international though.
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An aimless ball forward from Richards isn't going to work. Unless Sagna messes it up, which he nearly does unitl Barry takes him out and gives away a foul.
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 Barry got booked for that foul on Sagna.
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Walcott takes a blow to his ankle as he attempts to block a clearance from Zabaleta. He needs treatment.
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City resume the game, which has become very stop start and will suit the visitors, and Walcott comes back on.
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Wilshere to Walcott, who spins on the edge of the box but then snatches at his shot as a gap opens up.
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Tevez gets the ball and drives forward. He runs into a swarm of red shirts, looks around for some support but doesn't find any.
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Gareth Barry whips in freekick to the far post, Sagne misses his header and the City striker is caught unaware and scuffs his shot.
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That was a really good chance for City.
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Arsenal are straight down the other end. Fabregas shifts the ball and shoots from the edge of the box. His effort beats Hart but hits the post...
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...the ball bounces to Walcott, who lashes his shot against the bar from close-range. What a miss!
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 De Jong bodychecks Wilshere and gets booked.
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Fabregas lofts a wonderful pass over the City defence for Walcott but the flag is up for offside.
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City might be getting battered but here's some good news for their fans: Man City have won four and lost none of their last five Premier League away matches.
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More intrictae passing from the Gunners but the City defence holds firm.
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Richards spots a run from Tevez. The striker looks for support in the box, sees none and so shoots from wide on the right. Needless to say, he doesn't score.
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Yaya brushes off Song like he is not there and then plays a one-two with Tevez. The return ball is poor and the move breaks down.
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City are seeing a bit of the ball in Arsenal's half now.
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Arsenal keep possession but go nowhere.
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Fabregas splits the City defence with a great pass. Walcott should shoot but he takes too long and when he does shoot the ball hits De Jong. Walcott wants a penalty... he is clutching at straws.
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Van Persie shoots from outside the box but Hart is equal to the Arsenal striker's curling effort.
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Pretty patterns from the Gunners but no goals.
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Clichy brings the ball out from the back. Walcott sets up Fabregas on the edge of the box but De Jong makes a brilliant blocking tackle.
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City just don't have enough players willing to join in their sparse attacks.
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Tevez attacks but only Zabaleta is with him and with the duo stuck out wide Arsenal easily break it up.
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Walcott does well to hold off Zabaleta but when he turns he doesn't know what to do and loses the ball.
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Jo holds up the ball and knocks it down for Tevez, who shoots from outside the box. His effort is dipping, but not enough, and goes over the bar.
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Tevez is back defending and sets Zabaleta galloping away down the flank. But with only Barry up with him, yet another City attack breaks down.
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That's the final action of the half as the ref blows for the break.
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HT Well Man City will be delighted that it is still 0-0, Arsenal could be out of sight by now.
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HT City might want to give the Arsenal defence a bit more of a test in the second-half, seeing as though it has buckled under pressure in a number of matches so far this season.
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Arsenal's Alex Song and Manchester City's Yaya Toure battle for the ball