it just Erling Haaland’s world and we’re all just living in it? After Arsenal’s dramatic 2-2 draw with Manchester City it could certainly look like that.
Having been seconds away from the narrative being of a team ready to challenge Pep Guardiola more than ever, City’s last equaliser at the Etihad Stadium saw tensions boil over once more on an afternoon that simmered from the st
Haaland did a lot on Sunday (although not very much to trouble the Arsenal defence in the second half) but none of it was worthy of a red card. There is also nothing here that needs punishing retrospectively, or that can be anyway.
A bit of needle and fire is what these games demand. It was disrespectful and spur of the moment, but not harmful or ultimately that meaningful. Haaland makes the ground his own. It was only in the previous meeting in March that Arsenal’s man stood over Haaland and shouted in his face, an act not too dissimilar.
If we want the stakes to be high in matches like this between genuine title rivals then the dial has to be turned up a bit. Whether that is right given what Leandro Trossard was sent off for is another matter.
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