Manchester City without Kelvin De Bruyne and Rodri is an overhyped team. The absence of both players have had a negative impact on the team’s performance in the last three games including defeat to Arsenal this weekend which is the most recent lose they have conceded. Gabriel Martinelli’s goal was enough to give Arsenal a win. Arsenal will treasure this win, the team have worked hard to come this far, good work to Mikel Arteta, trusting the process is finally paying off.
Arteta is showing better management at Arsenal than last year. Manchester City could not achieve last year's dominance this year. From what I have observed, with the departure of İlkay Gündoğan, they are not as effective in the midfield as before, and when Kevin De Bruyne gets injured, the dynamics of the team are disrupted. They had problems in the last two matches. Arsenal are in a better situation now and they got a morale boost with the win over City.
I think this is still not seen because the beginning of the season until towards the end of the season last year Arsenal were also very good it's just that Arsenal's problem in the last few seasons has remained the same with them not really being able to make their consistency last for a season and last season was also like that.
The rise in their performance at the beginning of the season and mid-season was not accompanied by a good performance at the end of the season so it seems that the increase and decrease in their performance can happen quickly and no one can predict it.
If at the end of this season they are like that I think the management still hasn't changed but we still have to continue to wait whether something like this will happen or not.