{"id":1147648,"date":"2020-06-17T22:51:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1147648"},"modified":"2021-03-30T10:01:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T09:01:33","slug":"manchester-city-3-0-arsenal-match-analysis-black-lives-matter-sterling-david-luiz-arteta","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/manchester-city-3-0-arsenal-match-analysis-black-lives-matter-sterling-david-luiz-arteta\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City MVP Raheem Sterling ensures Arsenal are undermined by more than one sideshow"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a ruthless night of football, Manchester City annihilated Arsenal 3-0 at an empty Etihad.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a couple of nice long passes in the early going, Arsenal were blown off the park by Manchester City. What did we learn?<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a>

Black Lives Matter:<\/span> Read more about the cause footballers are taking the knee for<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Winner: Raheem Sterling<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Amid social unrest around the world, racial tensions at a seeming all-time high, the return of football seemed almost trivial. However given those world circumstances, and how football has chosen to react to it by wearing Black Lives Matter on the back of the players’ shirts and with every player taking a knee immediately after kick-off, it seemed fitting that Raheem Sterling opened the scoring.<\/p>\n

The English winger has long been the subject of racist taunting and has had to deal with a hostile media for years. Against his will he has become a lightning rod around discussions of racism, so in these times we could ask for no better an opening goalscorer (and his first goal of 2020, at that).<\/p>\n

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Raheem Sterling's game by numbers vs. Arsenal:<\/p>\n

92% pass accuracy
55 touches
44 passes completed
5 chances created
3 shots
2 shots on target
1 goal<\/p>\n

Finally off the mark in 2020. ? pic.twitter.com\/6j0WDEJ5xQ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Squawka (@Squawka) June 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n