Arsenal took another step forward despite conceding a 98th-minute equaliser in a full-blooded 2-2 draw away to champions Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday, according to manager Mikel Arteta.

The London club played the entire second half with 10 men after Leandro Trossard was sent off in first-half stoppage time for kicking the ball away, having already been on a caution.

Arteta said he was proud of his team’s resilience in the face of adversity.

“They put their heart and soul into every single action and at the end to be punished in the last minute, it was the 99th, they are gutted,” Spaniard Arteta told reporters.

“But as well, they know that they have made another big step today (Sunday) as a team and individuals to be able to do what they’ve done here. We were given a context to the game that made it almost impossible for 56 minutes, but we adapted to that context in the best possible way.

“The way the team competed was unbelievable.”

His opposite number Pep Guardiola said his players had been smart as they laid siege to the Arsenal goal — refusing to cross long balls into Arsenal’s dominant centre backs.

“We were so brilliant, to interpret these kind of things and afterwards it was a question of patience, a question of talent, question of luck,” Guardiola said.