Shane Hannon

But I don't know, it's just how do you flip that kind of psychology of like, well, we're holding on, holding on, holding on, and now we actually have to kind of be the aggressor here, and now we have to put our foot down.

And to change that, I think, is just a really difficult thing to do.

Do you remember even the first game that these two sides played against each other?

It was a one-all in the Emirates, kind of early on in the season, but it was a really poor game.

And City were just as bad as Arsenal when it came to an attacking kind of threat.

Arsenal fell behind.

Yeah, and it's funny actually, if this game finishes 1-1 on Sunday...

that matches the score at the Emirates earlier in the season and that could open up the possibility that the title could go to a playoff now it's still a little bit unlikely because City have to obviously catch up on the points finishing level at Arsenal they also have to be level on goal difference and goals scored but they're only one goal apart in terms of output and Arsenal have a four goal advantage Is there a head-to-head tiebreaker?

but yeah even saying all that City will benefit this week from not playing in the Champions League one of the benefits of getting knocked out by Real Madrid is they can kind of focus completely on the Premier League and

I don't know, like, when we get to this kind of part of the season and City were, like, chasing for titles, they kind of, they all click into gear.

There's a certain kind of humming about them.

They all kind of, you know, the interplay between the attacking players in particular all kind of just clicks into gear and it all just seems like it's a well-oiled machine.

I still don't really see that with City.

I know they were good against Chelsea last week, but in the second half, but in the first half, they weren't great, really.

hit and miss I don't know if we'll even see him on Saturday but he was good at the weekend I don't know there's just a lot there's a lot there for Brad City Haaland's form still isn't where Haaland's form is expected to be Docky was obviously brilliant at the start of the season and then he had like kind of hollowed out in the middle of the season and obviously scored last week he looked a bit better a bit more dangerous but I still wouldn't be reading too much into Chelsea's performance Liverpool's performance and Arsenal's performance in the League Cup final was pretty terrible as well and obviously the goalkeeper

making those errors that kind of cost them the game.

Yeah, it seems that he is.

And like, Nico O'Reilly has been the key to Man City's good performances over the last couple of weeks.

So he obviously scored the goals against Arsenal in the cup final as well, so...

does he play as a number 10 or can I play inside left as well that's something to be but do and play a different left back yeah I know Ruben Diaz looks like he's back fit as well so that's another centre back they have to their arsenal like