Does City now depend on themselves to win it? 6 points behind but a game in hand and playing against Arsenal at home.
Mikel Arteta | Lego Pep watch
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Yep. But they are also still in the CL, so a bit trickier.
Still think City will win it.
I don' think being in CL is an issue for City. They're too used to playing in multiple competitions, and CL schedule is much better than Europa League Thursday-league game Sunday schedule.
It's not as good as the no-European-football schedule Arsenal have though.
Not sure what your point?
City in CL shouldn't be an issue for them. Arsenal not having EL helps them, but not necessarily give them an advantage over City who is used to playing in all competitions.
Yes
I think not having European football can only be an advantage. City might be used to it but IMO it's still going to make it more difficult for them.
Not necessarily. City’s goal difference is only 5 goals better than Arsenal’s.
You can add the margin they win their game in hand to that. Plus double the margin between them and Arsenal. That will make it much harder for Arsenal to overhaul.
Harder for sure. However there’s a good chance either of the title challengers hammer someone with five or six. Just saying that it’s not automatically done with those results. Likely, yes.
And if they beat them even more
Looked like he stepped on a piece of lego at the full time whistle.
Bottled another two goal lead.
Can't wait for the interview 
Didn't like his subs today. Took off his best players for fresh legs and they did feck all.
Defo going to cry himself to sleep tonight, wiping his tears with a Polaroid of Pep
What he is doing at arsenal is respectable, even if they finish 2nd. When he took over they were a shambles, he has had a couple seasons, finishing 8th with them twice but he clearly had a plan. The powers that be believed in his plan regardless of pressure from fans and pundits. They have been a very good team this season and are taking it down to the wire. When people call them bottlers etc, that’s fine, but remember this is a young fairly inexperienced team. That’s why I think city will do it in the end, but arsenal fans have reason to be excited and hopeful for the future. The future looks bright for them. Fairs fair. It’s easy to laugh at them if they lose but respect for the football they have played at times this season. They have been good.
he's about to bottle this, jesus christ
Yeh Jorginho did his job I think to control the game but taking Odegaard off was terrible.
What you’ve said is absolutely true, but it’s hard to empathise with him because:
a) he’s a bellend
b) he’s made of Lego
When he took the piss out of a referee a few months ago I couldn’t wait to see his face once they bottled it
Proper fecking cringe this guy. Deserves feck all as well, been there years and never even finished top 4, been closer to the sack than finishing above Spurs in recent years
Shite
Proper fecking cringe this guy. Deserves feck all as well, been there years and never even finished top 4, been closer to the sack than finishing above Spurs in recent years
Shite
Why has he lost faith with Nektia?! Not a great player but seems a decent option when chasing games and needing to go direct. Their entire gameplay on the second half appeared to be to achieve meaningless possession that went nowhere
Well I was talking purely from a footballing perspective. I agree with the points made
I really hate those type of subs as a fan. Ole did it many times at United. I remember at one stage we had Dan James at RB in the Europa League final just to accommodate another striker.
A team can throw the kitchen sink without making subs that upset the balance of the team. You have to actually be able to build momentum and a foothold in the opposition half, and then start to really commit men into the box.
Nothing a pep (pun perhaps intended) talk from the club photographer can’t fix.
Nketiah was injured last few weeks and this was his first game back.
Ah okay I felt you had to show more urgency and be more direct today in the 2nd Too much short safe passing
I agree, we looked way too slow. Very weird how we can go from cruising in the first 30mins then seem to collapse. But I suppose that's what a title race does to you.
Get the feck in. I'll go on and say they lost the league today.
Agree. And that Saka penalty miss will probably be the pivotal moment where the title swung in City's favour. Had he scored that, it's 3-1 and we probably take all 3 points.
His cheerleading when the VAR decision was being made Vs us and his general gobshitery makes me want to see his Auton face sulking.
I haven’t seen much of his antics but I’ve not seen another manager of an opponent side his universally disliked on the caf unless they had a beef with ours (like Benitez). For example with Klopp we shat on him because he was Liverpool manager (and a bit of a tit sometimes). But nobody, pretty much nobody seems to like Arteta. That’s some achievement.
Lego today for sure
With their upcoming games, I don't think they have the strength to see it through.
It was a nice dream while it lasted, god bless they're bottling it.
It was a nice dream while it lasted, god bless they're bottling it.
They've overperformed in terms of xG. Their xPts fluctuates 11-14 points below their actual total. No team/player (excl. Messi) have outperformed xG for more than a season. The last PL challengers to do so were Liverpool in 19/20 who finished 25 points above their xPts and the overperformance was exposed the following season with one of the worst PL title defences.
Arteta has progressed the team but this season is a flattering indication of their actual level. I expect they will be back in the top four challengers next year.
Then xG ain’t really worth a shit. Better teams and better players should be doing better than supposed average.
Arsenal are such a dumb team. I cant understand why you would have Saka taking their penlties.
Liverpool overperformed xG and xPts in both 18/19 and 19/20.
Exactly.
Today feels like the day where things swung back in City’s favour. Not the first time Moyes has had a match where he got a result and swung a title race in favour of City.
Granted, if Arsenal do finish second that’s still better than anyone expected at the start of the season so they deserve credit for that, but equally it will feel very bitter knowing how close they came and the commanding position they had.
Granted, if Arsenal do finish second that’s still better than anyone expected at the start of the season so they deserve credit for that, but equally it will feel very bitter knowing how close they came and the commanding position they had.