Manchester City vs Arsenal LIVE: Premier League result and reaction after goalless draw

2 mins: Haaland is sent though by Foden and is tackled well, but he was offside anyway.

1 min: A couple of sides have really lacked rhythm this weekend after the international break. Will either of these sides be victim of the break?

Arsenal attempt the first real attack of the game but Odegaard’s sweeping pass is intercepted by Gvardiol.

KICK-OFF! Blue Moon rings aout around the Etihad as Arteta and Guardiola embrace. The away side gets us started in perhaps the biggest game of this Premier league season.

Gvardiol is partnering Dias at centre-back for City, with the rest of the sides both as you’d expect.

The teams are in the tunnel as we approach kick-off. Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard looks focused he prepares to lead his side out.

City come out a minute or so later, with a few handshakes for Jesus from his old teammates.

Both Arteta and Guardiola spoke to Sky in the lead up to kick-off.

The Gunners’ coach says his team “need to step up”.

“It’s another game. We know the opponent we are facing. The best way to do it is to believe you can do it.”

Guardiola told the cameras that City “believe who we are”.

“We arrive in the last periods of the season when we have 10 games left. It’s nearly the end.

“Me as a manager knowing these players for many, many years - never ever are we going to doubt for one second what they are capable of.”

So Liverpool’s win against Brighton has taken them to the top of the table on 67 points.

The late kick-off begins with Arsenal in second place on 64 points, and City in third on 63 points. Arsenal have the best goal difference – 46 compared to Liverpool’s 40 and City’s 35.

A final reminder of how you can watch today’s game. We’re around 20 minutes away from kick-off.

The match will kick-off at 4:30pm BST at the Etihad Stadium.

It will be shown on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League, with coverage following Liverpool’s clash with Brighton in what is another key clash in the title race.

If you’re not a Sky customer you can grab a NOWTV Day Pass here to watch without a subscription.

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To be the best, you have to beat the best. It is a familiar theory. It appears to be underpinning Arsenal’s planning, their strategy for the season. Or, even when the best are unbeatable, at least draw 1-1 with them.

The fact Arsenal topped the table for 248 days has been relegated to a subplot in last season’s tale of Manchester City’s treble. It did not have the inevitability sometimes attributed, but City retained the status of title favourites for virtually all of those 248 days. The two most significant came against Arsenal: 3-1 and 4-1 victories were emphatic, a brilliantly brutal illustration of the destructive gifts of Erling Haaland and, still more so, Kevin de Bruyne, whose 167 minutes against the Gunners produced three goals and two assists.

And take those two results away and Arsenal got 84 points and City 83. It isn’t as simple as that, Pep Guardiola’s team dropping five points after the title was won, three of them with a second-string side. The eventual standings could nevertheless be used to argue that Arsenal were better at beating the rest.

The day’s other game is approaching the final whistle, with Liverpool 2-1 up and heading to the top of the table.

They’re into the last few kminutes of added time there.