Manchester Metropolis rescued a degree within the dying embers because of a 98th-minute strike from substitute John Stones towards Arsenal at The Etihad on Sunday.

In an emotionally charged night in Manchester, Pep Guardiola‘s facet discovered themselves chasing the sport – regardless of taking the lead by way of Erling Haaland – because of targets from Riccardo Calafiori and Gabriel.

The Spanish head coach turned to Stones off the bench and deployed the England worldwide within the field, which paid dividends when he was first to react to a free ball to search out the again of the web in stoppage time.

There have been numerous underwhelming performers on the pitch for Metropolis, as they tried to interrupt down Arsenal’s low block following Leandro Trossard’s sending-off, and Ruben Dias was amongst them.

Ruben Dias’ struggles towards Arsenal

The Portugal worldwide might do little concerning the two targets that the Gunners scored nevertheless it was not his defensive work that was the problem along with his efficiency on Sunday.

After Arsenal went down to 10 males and sat again behind the ball in a 6-3 form, Dias – together with Manuel Akanji and Kyle Walker – was tasked with dealing with the ball across the fringe of the field in an try to interrupt them down.

With no Kevin De Bruyne available to take management of the scenario, the ball continually fell to the centre-back in a central place round 20 to 25 yards out and he didn’t know learn how to unlock the defence.

Ultimately, Dias had 5 photographs at aim – greater than Jeremy Doku and Savinho mixed (4) – and solely managed one shot on course, while he had 126 touches of the ball and didn’t create any ‘large probabilities’ for his teammates.

Kyle Walker, nevertheless, is the participant who must be anxious about his place within the staff after his show towards the Gunners on this 2-2 draw.

Kyle Walker’s “stinker” towards Arsenal

The England worldwide was worse than Dias and should now be ruthlessly ditched from the beginning XI by Guardiola, in favour of Rico Lewis, shifting ahead.

The Categorical, who handed Dias a score of 6/10, awarded Walker a dismal participant score of three/10 and described his displaying as an ‘unmitigated catastrophe’.

In the meantime, analyst Ben Mattinson claimed that the full-back had a “stinker” on the again because of his function in each of Arsenal’s targets within the first-half.

Walker switched off and allowed Gabriel Martinelli to get in behind for the primary aim earlier than dropping his duel with Gabriel from a nook to permit the centre-back to smash a header into the again of the web.

As you possibly can see within the desk above, the veteran defender additionally had loads of the ball however did little along with his, as he failed to finish any dribbles and failed to attain with any of his 4 efforts on aim.

Lewis, who had began all 4 video games and supplied one help within the Premier League earlier than Sunday, ought to now be introduced again into the XI after Walker’s struggles towards Mikel Arteta’s facet.