Arsenal vs Manchester City: 5 things learned in horror show

2. Matteo Guendouzi will bounce back

This was one of the worst matches I’ve seen from Matteo Guendouzi. I’ve never seen him look so out of place, so far behind everybody else and so woefully exposed. Kevin De Bruyne made our entire team look like a bunch of hapless fools, but nobody was left more in his dust than Guendouzi, who was always closest to De Bruyne and thus easier to expose.

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It got to the point that I just got tired of seeing Guendouzi spun around by one man over and over. And add to that his flopping. It was just a match I’d never care to see him repeat. He failed along with everyone else and you hate to see it.

But Guendouzi is young. He’s going to have his struggles. He’s going to have his poor matches as he learns and grows and even when he is an internationally acclaimed superstar with years and years of experience under his belt.

Try not to be too hard on the kid. He’s going to bounce back, hopefully stop flopping, and be just as big a part of our future as we expected him to be all along.

Finally, let’s face facts at No. 1.