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The Game

Having lost 2-1 away at Manchester United, Arsenal face the other side of Manchester, Mark Hughes’ team who according to many, may as well fight for one of the top four Premiership positions.

As for the line-ups, contrary to false rumours, captain Cesc Fabregas is fit to start but Tomas Rosicky is only the bench for the Arsenal, joined by Eduardo. Jack Wilshere not selected for today’s game.

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The Line-Ups

Manchester City

Given, Richards, Toure, Lescott, Bridge, Wright-Phillips, Ireland, Barry, De Jong, Adebayor, Bellamy

Subs: Taylor, Onuoha, Zabaleta, Sylvinho, Petrov, Vidal, Weiss

Arsenal

Almunia, Sagna, Vermaelen, Gallas, Clichy, Bendtner, Song Billong, Fabregas, Denilson, Diaby, van Persie

Subs: Mannone, Rosicky, Eduardo, Ramsey, Silvestre, Eboue, Gibbs

Half-Time Thoughts and Analysis

I’ll be short today as the server is overloaded and I’m trying to fix it. I’m not liking what I’m seeing. Robin is very isolated up front and we have no creativity at all. The midfield will be asked questions again as Diaby lacks the creativity I just mentioned and Denilson, yet again, has given the ball away twice and failed to recover after doing so.

I want to believe we can recover and win this game, but it will not be easy.

Manchester City vs Arsenal: Team line-ups, half-time thoughts and match chat