FA Cup | Liverpool exposes Arsenal's problems in 2-0 win; de Bruyne back in Man City win
The Hindu
Arsenal's 2-0 loss to Liverpool in FA Cup exposes goal-scoring woes; Man City's De Bruyne returns from injury in 5-0 win; Wrexham's Hollywood owners celebrate 1-0 win; West Ham, Forest, Luton held to draws.
Arsenal's increasingly alarming problems in front of goal were further exposed in a 2-0 loss to Liverpool in a heavyweight FA Cup match on Sunday.
An end-to-end third-round contest was settled by two late goals — an own-goal by Arsenal defender Jakub Kiwior in the 80th minute and a stoppage-time strike by Luis Diaz.
Arsenal has now lost four of its last seven matches in all competitions. In three of those defeats, the team has failed to score.
That statistic, plus another injury to first-choice striker Gabriel Jesus, could yet tempt manager Mikel Arteta to go into the transfer market this month. Otherwise, Arsenal risks falling short again this season, just like in the last campaign when the team faded late on and was beaten to the Premier League title by fast-finishing Manchester City.
City looks in prime shape again heading into the second half of the season, with a 5-0 win over second-tier Huddersfield in the FA Cup notable for the return from injury of Kevin De Bruyne after nearly five months out.
De Bruyne hasn’t played since sustaining a hamstring injury at Burnley on the opening day of the Premier League season on August 11. The Belgium playmaker came on as a 57th-minute substitute — when City was 2-0 ahead — and provided the cross that fellow replacement Jeremy Doku converted for the final goal in a one-sided match at Etihad Stadium.
City manager Pep Guardiola welcome back a midfielder he described as “exceptional" and ”unique."
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