Manchester City are so deeply unaccustomed to dropping points on their own ground that Arsenal are entitled to consider this performance as evidence that, at the very least, they can have more input on the title race than they managed last season.Arsène Wenger's team left it late to equalise, Laurent Koscielny lashing the ball past Joe Hart after 82 minutes, but they deserved the point and can be encouraged by the way they frustrated the champions.City rarely played with the style and panache that has made the Etihad Stadium, with no home defeat for getting on two years, the most formidable territory in the Premier League. Joleon Lescott's he...

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