Manchester City had a good chance to cut Arsenal’s lead at the top of the Premier League table by three points yesterday, but they couldn’t after falling to a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Tottenham.
The Citizens have trailed the Gunners for most of this season, but Mikel Arteta’s side was beaten 1-0 by Everton at the weekend before City played.
It meant Pep Guardiola’s men needed a win to cut the points gap to just two, before Arsenal played their outstanding game, but that never happened as a Harry Kane goal helped Spurs beat the champions.
City has shown so many cracks and inconsistency this season and former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher now doubts they could catch Arsenal.
He said via the Daily Mail:
‘I mentioned it before, we keep talking about Arsenal, Manchester City, there’s still a long way to go.
‘You’re almost waiting for City to kick in to be the City that we know so well. It just feels like this might be the season that they’re just not quite themselves, for lots of different reasons.
‘Maybe the role of Haaland in the team as well. It’s not the Man City of old. This idea of what they’ve done to Liverpool a couple of times in title races, I’m not sure it will happen. It feels like a different City that we’re watching right now.’
Just Arsenal Opinion
Our form and the bad spell other clubs are having is a good recipe for success, but we must make sure that loss to Everton is a one-off.
There would be tougher matches for us to play, so the boys must be in their best form for the rest of this season if we are to win the title.
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A great deal will be decided by our mental strength from here onwards.
We have not beaten City in PL for a long time. Results of the matches against them will have a bug bearing on the outcome of the league
HOWEVER !! Newcastle and Man Utd are not out of it yet ! This is NOT a two horse race at this point in the season.
I fear a 07/08 Season scénario all over again….
Fear seems to be a theme that’s not uncommon around these parts.
I can understand it, for years we watched from behind the sofa – it will take a while to believe rather than hope.
The only good thing about a loss like that is we learn from it.
Also that City lost to Spurs so didn’t make any diff from what it was a fee days ago in the title race. We still have a game in hand and 5points clear, this is the premier league and we have lost 2 games out of 20, drew 2 & won 16.
Plus we can get our feet back on the ground again knowing we can be beat and this isn’t going be easy & every game isn’t a win so we must perform every game.
Its ours to lose at this moment and with City struggling & Chelsea/Liverpool completely off the rails now is the best chance for Us & Possibly Man Utd to get back to fighting the title, the good old years!!
We didn’t expect this don’t forget gooners and would’ve bitten your hand for this position in the league and Europa in August.
Let’s see if we can respond with a huge win this weekend so get the title charge back on track
The boys underrated Everton and they were meant to pay for it. This is Arsenal’s worst performance this season. If they ever perform like this again, it won’t be easy winning the league.
Man city on the other hand are already disorganized. The belief and consistency is no longer there seeing how good and consistent Arsenal has been. To make matters worst the financial fair rule breach they face at the moment. Only God knows what kind of punishment awaits them. Arsenal take your chances this season!!!