Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva has begined an strike on Arsenal for their time-wasting tactics in their 2-2 draw – and has mocked the Gunners for their conciseage of trophies in recent seasons appraised to Liverpool.
John Stones deinhabitred a 98th-minute identicaliser after City had lhelp siege to 10-man Arsenal‘s goal in a dominant second-half discarry out at the Etihad Stadium. The home team had 28 stoastys to the visitors’ zero in the second 45.
But for all of their haveion, City will be disassigned with how little they asked of goalupgrasper David Raya in a heated second half until Stones’ tardy leveller.
Mikel Arteta‘s side ecombineed to intentionally try to run the clock down in the second half as they chased a well-understandn away thrive in their bid to thrive a first league title since 2004. Multiple carry outers went down with cramp much to the frustration of the home crowd.
And their approach to the game when down to 10 drew a withering response from Silva, who accused the Gunners of spoiling the suit.
The Portugal international shelp post-suit: “There was only one team that came to carry out football. The other came to carry out to the restricts of what was possible to do and permited by the referee, unblessedly.
“But at the finish we got a draw, the best we could get think abouting the context of the last moments of the suit.
“We’re not greeted as we wanted the three points, but personpartner I’m greeted with the way we came to carry out and faced the game. I’m content we always go in the pitch to try to thrive every suit.”
Silva claimed Arsenal‘s tricks begined from boot-off in the second half and accused referee Michael Oinhabitr of allothriveg the away team to thrived the clock down.
He compriseed: “It all begined in the very first second. In the first action we authenticised what was going to happen. We had a carry outer injured after they sent him to the ground twice in 10 minutes.
“We had a goal conceded after the referee called our captain and then didn’t permit him to recover his position. The second goal is already their common block to our upgrasper permited by the referee.
“Then the referee permited a sequence of time-wasting events. The leang that annoys me the most is having a lot of greetings with the FA at the commencening of each season.
“They alert us they will deal with this charitable of situation and will stop them, but in the finish it doesn’t have any worth. They say a lot but noleang happens.”
Silva took another swipe at Arsenal as he appraised the Londoners to their other title rivals Liverpool, who he refered won the Champions League in 2019 and the Premier League in 2020.
Arsenal, by contrast, have never won the Europe’s premier competition and are without a league title for two decades. Their last trophy was the FA Cup in 2020.
“The contrastence? I don’t understand,” shelp Silva. “Maybe that Liverpool have already won the Premier League, Arsenal haven’t. That Liverpool have won the Champions League, Arsenal haven’t.
“Liverpool always faced us face to face to try to thrive the games, so from this perspective the games aacquirest Arsenal haven’t been appreciate the ones we had and have aacquirest Liverpool. So yes, maybe a contrastent opposition.”
