Watch: Raheem Sterling heads chief Manchester City to 1-0 victory at Arsenal

Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling (centre) celebrates after scoring a purpose towards Arsenal in East London on Sunday night time.

In what has change into a stroll to the anticipated Premier League title, Manchester City remains to be discovering methods of manufacturing the sudden.

Raheem Sterling is scoring from headers.
He took solely 80 seconds to fulfill Riyad Mahrez’s cross at Arsenal to clinch a 1-0 victory on Sunday.
“I’m 5 foot 7 and a half,” Sterling said, “and every time I score a headed goal, it’s an extra buzz.”
His final two objectives — in a season tally that is reached 13 — have come from his head after serving to City to a victory at Liverpool two weeks in the past.
And they’re serving to City dethrone Liverpool as champions and regain the trophy gained in 2018 and 2019. When City beat Arsenal within the reverse fixture in October — supplied by Sterling’s foot — Pep Guardiola’s facet was in ninth place.
Now, with 13 video games to go, City has a 10-point lead over Manchester United and Leicester after profitable an 18th successive sport in all competitions.
“We had a difficult start to the season, something we’re not used to,” Sterling said. “It’s a credit to the team, we started to dig results out. We need to keep our focus and move on to the next one.”
The subsequent one is a Champions League sport at Borussia Mönchengladbach on Wednesday with the beginning of the knockout part as City seems to raise the European Cup for the primary time.

Although the scoreline on the Emirates Stadium was slender and City was not a continuing menace for Arsenal, the Tenth-place hosts might discover no well beyond the central defensive duo of John Stones and Ruben Dias.
“It was harder than we expected it to be,” City supervisor Pep Guardiola mentioned. “We adjusted our pressing in the second half. We didn’t create chances, but (we did) enough to win the game.”
Just as City has been doing since Dec. 19 — beating each opponent, to go away City in pursuit of 4 trophies.
“When everyone is suffering in this world, all the teams in the league are dropping points,” Guardiola mentioned, “we have been constant over the previous two months and I didn’t anticipate (that).
“We can’t overlook we gained at Anfield, we gained towards Tottenham, at Goodison Park and right here — three extremely powerful away video games on this interval, which is why I’m greater than happy to win simply 1-0.”
Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta was left to rue the early lapse.
“To concede against them is tough because it puts the game exactly where they want it,” he mentioned. “We lacked the standard in these conditions, so we struggled. We received one thing unsuitable, we talked about one thing and we didn’t do it within the first 5 or 10 minutes.
“It was a tactical thing that we prepared and we were unable to read it in the game and that cost us because we were disorganized.”
For Arsenal, the season hinges on the Europa League, which supplies a path to the Champions League by profitable the second-tier competitors.
Arsenal was held 1-1 by Benfica within the first leg within the spherical of 32 final week and now has to fly greater than three hours to play its residence sport in Athens on Thursday attributable to coronavirus restrictions.
“We have to sleep, eat and we won’t have time to train then we fly to Greece,” Arteta mentioned.