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thrashLondon left-footed Arsenal anchester drive straight City at Ederson as they inflicted moreM pain on looked to make their early Arsene Wenger with a second dominance pay. crushing 3-0 victory over his Arsenal But that good work was undone side in the space of four days. with a moment of After losing Sunday’s Carabao Cup class from Bernardo final, the Gunners could not find any level Silva, who was of retribution as they were again humbled by found by Sane far superior opposition in Pep Guardiola’s 100th following a jinking game in charge. run before bending Bernardo Silva, David Silva and Leroy Sane all a perfect strike past scored wonderful first-half goals for City, who now Petr Cech to open require only five more wins to secure the Premier the scoring. League title. Arsenal were better than they were at Granit Xhaka’s Wembley but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s second- well-struck free kick half penalty miss summed up their current form. got Arsenal fired up once The game at the Emirates Stadium went ahead despite more, with Ramsey the next to sub-zero temperatures and snowfall across much of the test Ederson. But again it was a country. Wenger must have been left wishing the fixture combination of individual and collective had fallen foul of the conditions as his players failed to brilliance which saw City double their lead. weather another City storm. Sane embarrassed Shkodran Mustafi with Gary Neville labelled Arsenal “spineless’’ during Sky’s some neat skill, with his pass into Aguero laid coverage of the cup final and he was commentating again off to David Silva for the Spaniard to finish tonight but all he could do this time was aim superlatives with aplomb. at a superb City performance. It threatened to get more galling for The Gunners started with a vigour that was missing Wenger and his side when Sane scored a for much of Sunday’s final and were unlucky not to goal of his own, finishing Kyle Walker’s go ahead when a low Aaron Ramsey cross cannoned cross at the end of a slick attack. off Vincent Kompany, with the ball fortuitously Arsenal passed up a glorious bouncing against Ederson in the visitors’ goal. chance to reduce the arrears when Arsenal were creating the better chances Aubameyang’s tame penalty was in the opening exchanges and Henrikh pushed clear by Ederson after Mkhitaryan, Nicolas Otamendi had upended returning to the Mkhitaryan. (PA Sport) side having been cup-tied at Wembley, hit a

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