Arsenal showed signs of recovery from their recent dismal run of form as they twice fought back from behind to draw with Manchester City at Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners had lost four out of their previous five Premier League games, and faced City against uncertainty surrounding manager Arsene Wenger's future, with more protests staged before kick-off.
Arsenal got off to the worst possible start when Leroy Sane put City ahead after only five minutes, running on to Kevin de Bruyne's routine pass to round David Ospina and score.
Theo Walcott capped a spell of Arsenal pressure to scramble home an equaliser five minutes before the break - but they were on terms for only two minutes before Sergio Aguero's powerful finish put City back in front.
Arsenal lost Laurent Koscielny to injury at half-time and it was his central defensive partner Shkodran Mustafi who rose above City's defence from a corner to restore parity after 53 minutes.
Aguero missed two good chances for City and manager Pep Guardiola was furious that a late handball appeal against Nacho Monreal was ignored, leaving his side in fourth and Arsenal in sixth place in the table - seven points of the top-four pace.
No stopping De Bruyne - match stats
- Arsenal have lost just one of 20 home Premier League matches against Manchester City (W12 D7).
- Kevin de Bruyne has assisted 11 Premier League goals this season, the joint-most in the division along with Gylfi Sigurdsson; only once before has a City player assisted more goals in a single Premier League season (David Silva with 15 in 2011/12).
- David Silva registered his 100th Premier League goal involvement with an assist for Aguero's goal - the Spaniard has scored 37 goals and assisted 63 since his debut in August 2010. His tally of 63 assists is 12 more than any other player since his debut.
- Leroy Sane has scored in five of his last eight Man City matches in all competitions (five goals).
- Sane's goal after four minutes and 22 seconds was the earliest Premier League goal Arsenal had conceded at the Emirates since February 2012, when Louis Saha scored after three minutes and 51 seconds for Spurs.
- Ten of Sergio Aguero's 14 Premier League goals this season have come away from home (71%).
- Mesut Ozil has assisted four Premier League goals against Man City, the joint-most he has managed against an opponent (level with Aston Villa).
- Mesut Ozil's assist in this game was his 50th for Arsenal in all competitions.
- The Gunners have won exactly the same number of points (51) after 28 games in 2016/17 as they did last season, with exactly the same record (W15 D6 L7).
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ArsenalMan City
- Possession
- 44%
- 56%
- Shots
- 8
- 14
- Shots on Target
- 3
- 5
- Corners
- 3
- 8
- Fouls
- 8
- 15
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