This match will definitely be very interesting, as said, the two teams have a pretty tight rivalry especially throughout last season. Manchester City were able to dominate the victory in every match and they shifted the position of Arsenal who had long survived at the top of the table, it was unexpected but that was the reality. Last season Arsenal were lacking in some of their reserve players so they lost a lot of balance. For now we all know Arsenal have made a lot of improvements, Arteta has brought in some new ammunition to strengthen his team. Well one of the things I want to see is the performance of Declan Rice, Arteta has managed to bring him at a fantastic price and in a few days we will witness his performance, I hope he will not disappoint Arsenal fans. Finally if I have to predict it looks like Manchester City still has a great chance to win here because they are still very strong, but we'll see the results of the match.
City is also on the verge of getting a sextuple, meaning 6 cups in a calendar year. If they get this one, and then get the super cup (played between city and sevilla) and then win the world club cup, that makes it 6 cups in a single year. That is something that has been done only 2 times so far and I am guessing that there is a good chance they could do it again.
However, two of those are just one single game, meaning that it's going to be pretty tough to actually do that, it's going to cause the teams not to really have any chance to play even a bad 30 minutes let alone a whole game. City will want to come out attacking hard and keep trying to win with high offense for sure, they need to, it means a lot more to them than Arsenal.