CommentaryReporting by Jack Mumford @mancity

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Good night

Thanks a lot for your company today. A difficult result to take but there's still so much to play for this season.

Pep's side are back in action next Saturday in the FA Cup fourth round, when we travel to Leyton Orient.

In the meantime, there's an FA Youth Cup clash with Leeds live on CITY+ on Tuesday and a Subway Women's League Cup game at Arsenal on Thursday.

See you then.

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Pep's reaction 🗣️

I only regret the last 25 minutes, we forgot to do what we should do, what we have done for 65/70 minutes. Of course it's a difficult game starting in this stadium, against that team in the first minutes it's happened many times this season.

But after 10/15 minutes I think we took the game and played really, really, really, really good and we are in it after 1-1 and good momentum we pass to make the transition with Omar [Marmoush] and a deflection and the third goal.

But after that, we then continued to do what you have to do in terms defensively and [be a] little bit more patient. and when you're playing that way they can run and of course at 3-1 they are comfortable, its more difficult. I regret the last 15/20 minutes, the rest was a really good game for our side. It's difficult to understand when you see the result but this is my feeling.

It's happened all season, we are giving away too many things, we are aware this cannot happen, it happened. But we reacted really well and we played with personality and we defended so good and then with the ball we were a threat but unfortunately after the second happened, again many times we had the momentum. For the deflection and in other situations we conceded the goals.

You have to overcome [it], you cannot lose the control, it's 90/95 minutes. You cannot finish in the way we played, we could've scored three more but the team has to be stable it doesn't matter what happened.

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John Stones reaction 🗣️

It's difficult. All of us don't take losing well. It's hard for me to put into words straight after a game like that. Pride is hurt. Sorry to the fans that travelled. How we played in the last 30 minutes was not acceptable and it's not us. It's not nice to be involved that. We give credit to Arsenal, this is not an easy place to come to.

For 60 minutes we played some good football at times and we were in the game. It swung the wrong way for us and I'm angry and upset with how the game finished, for many reasons.

To get back into it and then go behind off the deflection off me, it's difficult. We can't let those situations get on top of us. They score another and we could score back but it seemed to be the opposite. We stopped doing the things we were meant to.

We want to come back from this and not erase because these things make you stronger. For our fans, we need to make it right again.

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Pep applauds the travelling fans


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Thank you so much 👏

As always, thank you to those who travelled to Arsenal today and everyone watching on from around the world.

Your support means so much to us. We'll be back next week for our FA Cup clash with Leyton Orient.

There's still reaction to come right here tonight, with Pep and a player due to speak to the media shortly.

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Premier League table

City remain fourth in the Premier League, with 41 points from 24 games.

Chelsea will play tomorrow night in the final game of the weekend and could overtake us with victory over West Ham.

We're next in action in the league on 15 February when we host Newcastle United.

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Match stats 📊

Possession: Arsenal 46% - 54% City

Passes completed: Arsenal 341 - 422 City

Shots: Arsenal 12 - 7 City

xG: Arsenal 1.04 - 0.81 City

Corners: Arsenal 5 - 2 City

Fouls: Arsenal 6 - 7 City

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Matchday Live 📺

Paul Dickov and John Hartson will summarise the action at the top of the page.

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Summary

Odegaard, Partey, Lewis-Skelly, Havertz and Nwaneri with the goals for Arsenal.

Erling Haaland had levelled for City 10 minutes into the second half, but we weren't able to keep it 1-1 for long.

The later goals have perhaps made it a more emphatic scoreline than the gameplay throughout the 90 minutes otherwise suggested.

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Full-time

That's it. City lose at Arsenal.