Terrace Talk: City quickstep around Emery’s lacklustre defence

There’s a scene in Forrest Gump where the film’s hero reacquaints himself with his old army Lieutenant Dan by throwing himself off his shrimp boat, leaving the vessel to weave around the estuary by itself.

Arsenal’s defence — with Shkodran Mustafi starring as a kind of permanent tribute to Lieutenant Dan — spent the entire afternoon careering around the Etihad a pace or two behind City’s quickstep.