Man City vs. Arsenal: Pep Guardiola's managerial record against the Gunners and Mikel Arteta

Former colleagues and present-day counterparts volition concisely clasp connected the touchline erstwhile again connected Sunday afternoon, erstwhile Pep Guardiola's Manchester City and Mikel Arteta's Arsenal quadrate disconnected successful a Premier League top-of-the-table Etihad extravaganza.

While the Gunners are customarily faltering astatine this signifier of the season, Man City are quintessentially slaying astir each foe successful their way arsenic the concern extremity approaches, reigniting speech of a colossal rubric comeback successful the process.

Guardiola oversaw a broad 3-0 beating of Chelsea successful Man City's astir caller Premier League game, leaving the Sky Blues six points adrift of Arsenal having played a crippled fewer, meaning that the destiny of the rubric remains successful some teams' hands.

The Catalan coach's broadside besides travel into Sunday's showdown with a afloat week's worthy of mentation nether their belts courtesy of their elimination from the Champions League, portion Arsenal laboured to a goalless gully with Sporting Lisbon successful midweek but nevertheless precocious to the semi-finals.

Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look astatine Guardiola's managerial grounds against Arsenal up of Sunday's battle.

Pep Guardiola's grounds vs. Arsenal

Played: 33

Won: 20

Drawn: 6

Lost: 7

Pep Guardiola's grounds arsenic Man City manager vs. Arsenal

Played: 25

Won: 16

Drawn: 4

Lost: 5

Pep Guardiola's illustrious managerial vocation stretches crossed 17 years and successful that play helium has faced Arsenal a full of 33 times successful each competitions - much than immoderate different club.

The Catalan manager boasts a 60.6% triumph complaint against the Gunners arsenic helium has led 3 antithetic clubs to a combined 20 victories - the astir of his managerial vocation against 1 nine - portion helium has besides played retired six draws and suffered 7 defeats.

A full of 70 goals person been scored by Guardiola's sides, who person besides conceded 37 times.

Excluding neutral venues, Guardiola has won 11, drawn 3 and mislaid zero of his 14 location meetings with Arsenal, portion helium has won eight, drawn 3 and mislaid 4 of his 15 distant encounters.

Guardiola's archetypal 8 meetings with Arsenal were successful the Champions League during his times successful complaint of Barcelona and Bayern Munich, and with some clubs helium recorded 2 wins, 1 gully and 1 decision versus the Gunners.

At Barcelona, Guardiola celebrated a 6-3 aggregate triumph successful the 2009-10 quarter-finals which was followed by a 4-3 aggregate triumph successful the 2010-11 past 16 - Arsenal bushed Barca 2-1 astatine the Emirates successful the archetypal limb of that last-16 necktie earlier losing the 2nd limb 3-1 astatine Camp Nou.

While astatine Bayern, Guardiola steered the German giants to a 3-1 aggregate occurrence successful the 2013-14 past 16, earlier experiencing mixed fortunes successful the 2015-16 radical stage, losing 2-0 astatine the Emirates earlier thrashing Arsenal 5-1 astatine the Allianz Arena.

Guardiola's remaining 25 meetings with Arsenal person each been arsenic manager of Man City, wherever helium was appointed successful the summertime of 2016, boasting a grounds of 16 wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats.

In the days of Arsene Wenger and, briefly, Unai Emery astatine Arsenal, Guardiola came up against the Gunners 8 times arsenic City brag crossed 3 antithetic competitions, winning six, drafting 1 and losing conscionable one.

Guardiola won his archetypal Premier League crippled arsenic Man City manager against Arsenal successful December 2016 (2-1), but the Citizens were forced to play retired a 2-2 gully successful the reverse fixture earlier losing 2-1 successful the FA Cup semi-finals astatine Wembley.

A tally of 7 successive victories implicit Arsenal past followed for Man City and Guardiola, including a 3-0 triumph successful the 2018 EFL Cup last arsenic good arsenic 2 3-0 Premier League wins against interim brag Freddie Ljungberg and existent caput manager Mikel Arteta, who swapped his adjunct relation astatine the Etihad for the apical occupation astatine the Emirates successful December 2019.

Pep Guardiola vs. Mikel Arteta

Played: 16

Guardiola wins: 9

Draws: 4*

Arteta wins: 3

*One gully resulted successful Arsenal winning connected penalties successful 2023 Community Shield

With Liverpool fable Jurgen Klopp departing Anfield successful the summertime of 2023, the spotlight has shifted to a caller Premier League managerial rivalry betwixt Guardiola and Arteta, the maestro and his erstwhile apprentice, who person already experienced a fig of memorable battles betwixt 1 another.

Arteta took implicit an Arsenal broadside successful a important transitional signifier astatine the extremity of 2019 and fewer volition beryllium amazed to larn that Guardiola's Man City broadside dominated this fixture with the Gunners successful the aboriginal years of the former's Emirates reign.

Indeed, Guardiola won 9 of his archetypal 10 encounters with Arteta's Arsenal successful each competitions betwixt June 2020 and April 2023, with a 2-0 FA Cup semi-final decision being the lone blot connected the Catalan's copybook during that awesome run.

Man City scored astatine slightest 2 oregon much goals successful six of those victories and 4 oregon much 3 times, including a memorable 5-0 location triumph successful the Premier League successful August 2021 - the Citizens' biggest triumph implicit Arsenal and Arteta's heaviest decision arsenic a manager to date.

Arsenal person since travel connected leaps and bounds nether Arteta and person established themselves arsenic 1 of Man City's strongest challengers towards the apical of the Premier League, battling them for the rubric but coming up agonisingly abbreviated successful the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons.

Man City did the treble implicit Arsenal successful the 2022-23 run - City's historical treble-winning play - winning 3-1 astatine the Emirates earlier cruising to an imperious 4-1 triumph astatine the Etihad, but Guardiola's Citizens person since failed to triumph their past 5 meetings with the Gunners, astir precocious drafting 1-1 distant from location successful September 2025.