Manchester City's performance at the start of the season was a bit slow. Yet they have managed to maintain continuity. They won 6 out of 7 matches. The main reason for City's slow start to the season is that two key players in the City squad, Silva and De Bruyne, have missed several matches due to injuries. However, Manchester City's performance under Guardiola was excellent.
I don’t understand what you insinuate by saying their performance at the beginning of the season is a bit slow because for a team that have won 6 out of 7 matches you wouldn’t say that about them. Maybe you might mean something else from what I’m thinking. Having said that; Manchester City’s performance even when they’ve some important key players injured having changed and they are still maintaining the top of the table, all thanks to their brilliant Coach Guardiola for putting the team together despite lacking squad depth now. Having those players back will boost the confidence of the team more and won’t mind facing any club to prevail now. I trust Manchester City with that confidence.
The latest news says Saka would be in contention for Arsenal match against Man City thus the team would be more stronger, I believe this time around Man City would find it very difficult to defeat Arsenal owing to injury to some of their key players like Kevin DeBruyne, Grealish and with Rodri out due to booking definitely those are players with huge influence on the team, Man City would face a more strengthened and formidable Arsenal and having lost their last match against Wolves thus more pressure would be on the team to avoid back to back defeat while Arsenal would try to consolidate on their EPL unbeaten record this would motivate the team to aim for a possible win against one of their rival.
Manchester City are missing a lot of vital players but will that affect them much in their next match against Arsenal? Arsenal on the other hand will be building on the confidence that they’ve won Manchester City in their last encounter in the community shield which they will bank on now. Checking at both team’s performance, I’m not sure if that could be dependent on now. They both lack some key players which obviously, Manchester City’s supersedes that of Arsenal in terms of injured players. I will want to give Arsenal a lot of hope in this match but Manchester City having Pep Guardiola on their side will make me have a rethink of it on whether they can prevail easily even when they’re the one with higher chances of winning the match now.