Tottenham will always be the fierce rival of Derby Day, and Liverpool is comfortably the best team in the world. There is history with Manchester United and the local rights to blush in Chelsea cards, but at this time overcoming Manchester City means more for Arsenal fans than anything else.
The Pep Guardiola side has long been the criterion, below which this Arsenal team has fallen twice agonizing. The manifestation of what they have not achieved precisely in the last two years.
The city is not at the top of its powers, it is true, but the psychological impulse not only to demolish the future reigning champions of deposed, but absolutely hit them, it is just what the arsenal needs to reign in some way in the trigger heirs of Liverpool.
Defeating City may not recover them mathematically at the top of Liverpool, but they are not mistaken, it is the reminder that they need the season not yet to end.
However, there is more than that. Perhaps to the detriment of his side, there is a discussion that knocking down his former employers is precisely for what Mikel Arteta built this side.
There are echoes on the side of Man City who fought again and again with the Liverpool of Jurgen Klopp in its configuration, but with deliberate stubbornness and physical to counteract the extravagant margin on the side of Guardiola in his pomp.
Arsenal assured a psychologically invaluable 5-1 victory over Manchester City in the Emirates
Arsenal has many rivals, but at this time the victory over Manchester City is the most important
However, Arne Slot's Liverpool is still six points from the gunners with a game in hand
Then there is the most recent story. The completely devastating late equalizer admitted to John Stones in the Etihad earlier this season took more than two points of the arsenal; He made a genuine credible evidence that they can really go to the best of the earth and go face to face, and go to the top.
Perhaps it is why Haaland's erling is wonderfully shear 'stay humble, huh?' He hit as sticks and stones in September; There is still that splinter of doubt within this side of the Arsenal, an splinter that has grown with both recent yields of the Premier League crown. And that chip on each fan's shoulder has grown much more. Until Sunday.
It could be argued that this intense approach has benefited the other Arsenal rivals, but for Arsenal, beating Manchester City means more than three points.
It only had to do with the first 10 minutes of the most recent delivery on Sunday of what is becoming one of the great league grid games.
Less than two minutes later, Gabriel's manic smile was pushed to Haaland's face, the opportunity to rub the salt in the wound hooked with poise after the rapid opening of the host ray.
Of course, there is the previous requirement career of the only time we want in individual battles in the greatest stages, but highlights how much this means for arsenal to an individual level.
There were certain game tickets in that second half that even remembered how the city has affirmed as the best in the world in the last five years.
The defensive position is reserved momentarily, the arsenal showed a fluidity and dynamism to underline that they are more than the specialists of the piece, their rivals tag him mockingly. Sometimes, they were wonderfully fascinating to see.
Gabriel hastened to rub salt in the wound after Arsenal took a ray advantage in the game
The victory over Manchester City represents the understanding that Arsenal can fight with the best
ERLING DE HAALEND now infamous 'Stay Humble, huh?' Jibe hit a nerve among Arsenal fans
You saw that the weight raised the Gunners in the second half, once they knew that the three points were in the bag.
The realization, the validation of fact, which they obtained by putting the city to the sword that leaked aside and played the way all fans know they can. Representation if necessary what impulse this result gives Arsenal to a mental level.
Private of trust, Kai Hvertz set aside that lack of faith. The two teenagers, Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis -skelly, perhaps crucially, both without collecting in the last season, both disparagingly put themselves on the score sheet.
Nwaneri's strike in particular was felt as a statement. Shrinkling his left foot and sending a curly beyond Stefan Ortega: nobody does that to Man City, but maybe Arsenal will do it from now on.
And a moment for Lewis-Skelly, the adolescent realized in the middle of the week, who faced one of the brightest arsenals in the game.
Not only did he defend the challenge, but scored an amazing first goal from the Premier League, before hitting Haaland's iconic celebration.
Simply, this always impressive 18 -year -old girl implicitly knows what it means to her club, only in her tenth appearance in the League.
It has been a frustrating season for Arsenal. Among many fans, the fact that they have hesitated in the only season that Sunday's rivals have also fallen short is an irony hardly, but the feeling of what could have been can be escaped.
The youth of Arsenal Myles Lewis-Skelly (left) and Ethan Nwaneri (right) were on the goal
Lewis-Skelly in particular was vibrant and his celebration showed exactly what the result meant
Arsenal played freely once they realized that they had finally put the city to the sword
Arteta has built its side almost completely to counteract the fortresses of the city in the last five years
That feeling has not burned with the incineration of Manchester City on Sunday, but those same flames will at least have revived hope and understanding that 14 games remain in the season, and crucially for Liverpool.
Twice in a row, arsenal have been tense in the last one, the dam succumbed to the hunters, falling apart with history at their disposal.
Arteta has built its side to replicate and counteract the fortresses of the city in equally. Could the art of hunting the leaders to be one of the greatest lessons that takes into account? There would be wonderful irony.
The modern bard, Peter Dury, said the Arsenal was “flying” from the champions after Hvertz's room. Without a doubt, Sunday's result will have remembered Arne Slot just where the expected destination of the Arsenal is.