Arsenal 0 - 0 Manchester City: Pippi Longstocking

Emmanuel Adebayor was all smiles quite often in his return to the Emirates. Pic via City Newspaper.

Arsenal 0

Manchester City 0

Everybody had the feeling that this was going to be a tumultuous affair. Emmanuel Adebayor was probably going to do something stupid, especially if he, God forbid, scored a goal, and emotions would be running high as Arsenal looked to lock up third place and City looked to move back into fourth. Likely, this would be a high scoring encounter, as both sides are a bit shaky on defense.

And then absolutely none of that happened.

The most interesting thing to talk about in this match was, of course, Emmanuel Adebayor's pigtailed hair and orange boots. As for the rest, here are the highlights:

• There were six shots on target combined between the teams. I remember one of them, Nasri's in the first half.
• Van Persie's free kick that just went wide was kind of crushing. Watching the instant replay was depressing, seeing how close it was to 1-0.
• City did nothing offensively all game. Like, at all. Which was great, given Fabianski's track record in goal.
• I thought Silvestre played really well. No, seriously.
• You know, if you're not going to even try to utilize his height in the box, why even use Bendtner as a lone striker and drop Van Persie back?
• It was definitely a lot more comfortable to watch this match knowing Alex Song was back and in control of the holding role.
• Shay Given's injury is really bad news for City. I enjoyed that the back-up keeper was named Gunnar. I thought that would help us. It didn't, really.

That's really about it. Every recap you will see of this match will use the word "boring." Anyway, two matches to play and the odds of not finishing in third are, I believe, less than 1%. It would be nice to lock it up next Monday at Blackburn, but it really does seem like they're just coasting to the finish line now.