Super Sunday will see Arsenal hosting champions Manchester City on January 13, 2013. This game is scheduled to be played at the Emirates at 1600 GMT.
Arsenal will be hoping to continue their good form in the League with a morale boosting victory over Manchester City. The game by no margin will be easy for the Gunners but with a striking partnership of Lukas Podolski and Theo Walcott who have both scored goals recently, will test Joe Hart on a regular basis. Arsene Wenger will be hoping to collect all three points.
Over the last five fixtures between these teams at the Emirates, Arsenal has scored five goals while City has managed to score just two. This game in particular could be a high scoring game as both the teams play quick and swift football with strikers who all have a very good sense of where the goal is.
The last game between these two teams, earlier in the season, ended with Arsene Wenger’s men winning the fixture 1-0. These teams play dynamic and fast-moving as they have immense pace.
City have been on a goal scoring spree having drilled in at least three goals each in the last three games that they have played, while Arsenal have been involved in two high scoring games winning one game 7-3 and the other 2-5.
Arsenal usually start the game very well with a solid defence an astonishing fact is that Manchester City has not managed to score a goal against Arsenal at any venue in the first 20 minutes of play.
With both the teams playing flowing football this encounter promises to be a high scoring and thrilling game.
Manchester City has a long injury list. Roberto Mancini’s men will see Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero, Maicon, Aleksander Kolarov, Micah Ricahrds and Jack Rodwell miss the game due to injury. Aguero will be back for first team action soon unlike quite a few.
The Gunners will see stand in keepers Vito Mannone and Luis Fabianski sit out along with Eammanuel Frimprong, Andre Santos and Abou Diaby who are all sidelined due to injury.
Prediction: Arsenal 2-2 Manchester City