On New Year’s Eve, we wondered what might happen to this Arsenal team. His success at Brighton (4-2), combined with City’s draw at Everton (1-1), gave him a 7-point lead over Manchester City at the dawn of the new year. At this precise moment, between the party favors and the wishes, it takes a lot of imagination to believe in a new title for Guardiola’s men. However, it only took them 46 days to take control.
And even if Arsenal, with a game in hand, still have their destiny in hand, the month and a half that has just passed draws a whole new dynamic. To put it another way, the favorite today is City. Arsenal have yet to lose everything but by taking just one point from their last three games, their worst run of the season, the Londoners are proving they are struggling to bear the brunt of this title race.
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If we give away 3 goals like we did…
The defeat once morest City is symptomatic. If Arteta’s men have competed in the game, their big mistakes on Mancunian goals may be a symptom of the fear that inhabits them in this race to which they are no longer used. “We are disappointed because we lost this match and I say that because it is really us who lost it. We fought an incredible battle but we gave them the goalsArteta regretted on Prime Video following the meeting. We had three big chances, we didn’t take them, that’s what made the difference. At times we had them but if we give away 3 goals like we did… The margin of error with Manchester City is almost zero.”
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Takehiro Tomiyasu’s unsteady back pass in the first half may score, as it is still too early to be sure, one of the turning points of the season as was Steven Gerrard’s slip in 2014 when Liverpool eluded the title to City. Fear of winning? Gamblers? Without a doubt. But the absence of Gabriel Jesus since the World Cup is costly in the opposing penalty area where Arsenal missed so much on Wednesday.
Absences, a stroke of the pump…
That of Thomas Partey also cost dearly once morest City. And Arteta’s men also seem to stick out their tongues in a sequence that is increasingly expensive. However, the Spanish technician has paradoxically never been so sure of his facts: “I believe very strongly that we can win this championship tonight, because, at times, we were at their level“Certainly, except that today it was City that came back up to standard.
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