Manchester Metropolis midfielder Rodri says the group are heading to the Emirates Stadium this weekend to win, and he doesn’t care what occurred final season.
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Arsenal face one other robust check within the Premier League this weekend, with Manchester Metropolis visiting the Emirates Stadium.
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Metropolis had made a gradual begin to the brand new Premier League marketing campaign, solely profitable certainly one of their three matches in August and dropping the opposite two. However the final week has represented a turnaround, with Metropolis thrashing Manchester United 3-0 and easing previous Napoli 2-0 within the Champions League.
Metropolis have been helped within the latter fixture by an early purple card for his or her opponents, however they’ll nonetheless really feel they’re constructing momentum. Talking to the media, insisted they’re now going to Arsenal with the intent to win.
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“Yeah, we’re going with the mentality to win in there (the Emirates Stadium),” Rodri . “I don’t care what occurred within the final season, I don’t care.
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“We’ve the extent to go there and present, once more, our greatest form. And yeah, we all know they (Arsenal) are an unbelievable group; they reformed the group each single 12 months with unbelievable signings and daily they’re doubtlessly higher and higher, like each single group.
“However yeah, I don’t know; it’s the start of the season, however it will likely be a very good message for them (Arsenal) if we go there and win of their dwelling. So that is, I believe, our mentality.”
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A lot as Rodri may need to put it out of his thoughts, it’s true that Metropolis’s final go to to Arsenal was disastrous. The Gunners ran out 5-1 winners, extending their unbeaten streak in opposition to Guardiola’s aspect to 5 matches.
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Metropolis had been utterly dominant in opposition to Arsenal for some time earlier than that, profitable 15 video games out of the earlier 16. The one blot was a 2-0 FA Cup semi-final loss in 2020.
However issues have modified since then, with Arsenal profitable the Neighborhood Protect over Metropolis in 2023, profitable consecutive Premier League fixtures on the Emirates Stadium, and drawing consecutive video games on the Etihad.
Even final season’s draw on the Etihad solely happened on account of Arsenal unfairly happening to 10 males while profitable the sport. Each groups will really feel they’ve a very good likelihood to select up all three factors this weekend.