A 93rd-minute goal by Rodri helped City beat the Gunners 2-1 in a game marred by VAR controversies. Elsewhere, Davinson Sanchez scored in the 96th minute to help Spurs defeat Watford.
Bukayo Saka gave Arsenal the lead in the 31st minute, diverting a cross from Kieran Tierney past Ederson in the City goal. That was after the Gunners had an early penalty shout waved off, when the Citizens custodian seemingly brought down Martin Odegaard, only for the VAR to decree that not to be the case.
City got back into the game with a spot-kick. After VAR found Granit Xhaka guilty of pulling Bernardo Silva down inside the Arsenal box, Riyad Mahrez stepped up to score from the spot.
Gabriel Magalhaes picked up a yellow card in the aftermath of the penalty decision, and he would pick up a second one not long after for fouling Gabriel Jesus on the halfway line.
Moments before Gabriel’s sending off, Manchester City had survived a scare when Aymeric Laporte’s inadvertent header towards his own goal had to be cleared off the line by Nathan Ake. Gabriel Martinelli, who has been in red-hot form recently, missed the chance to score into an empty net on the follow-up.
Arsenal’s ten men held onto the point until the 93rd minute of the game when a cross into the box by Kevin De Bruyne pinballed into the path of Rodri and he poked it past Aaron Ramsdale from close range. That made it eleven straight wins for Pep Guardiola’s men, as they increased their lead at the top of the table to eleven points.
At the Vicarage Road, Tottenham took on Watford hoping to hang on into the top four race. Spurs dominated proceedings, but some wonderful saves from the Hornets’ Daniel Bachmann kept the scores level for much of the match.
It was only in the sixth minute of second-half stoppage time that Antonio Conte’s side took the lead. Son Heung-min delivered a set-piece from the right flank onto the head of centre-back Davinson Sanchez, who couldn’t miss from extremely close range.
The win takes Spurs up to 33 points, two behind fourth-placed Arsenal – with two games in hand.
