Will O'Callaghan

Man City would have to win every game and Arsenal would have to slip up in order for City to turn around the title race.

But you can't help but feel that there is a wave of momentum behind City now going into this fixture, which is exactly what they would have wanted.

He did.

I thought first half particularly, he looked really frustrated.

Again, I was wondering when Chelsea went with a ninth different centre-back combination of the season, whether that was going to be a problem for them.

They have been chopping and changing in the centre of defence.

But generally, they kind of held things up reasonably well, as Miguel said, up until half-time.

It wasn't clicking for City.

And then in the second half, as often happens, it's an inverted full-back in Nico Reilly who makes a big difference for them.

And Rayne Cherkis is playing with so much freedom at the moment.

He's been...

you know brilliant in the second half of the season he is now the creative fulcrum of that team he's kind of stepped into uh kevin de bruyne his absence and it can be one of those days where it doesn't really click for erling haaland but city still create enough of the white positions in order to get the goals and you know three nil was reasonably comfortable in the end the issue is obviously the injury that riley's picked up and also rodry who's had a succession of injuries really since he came back earlier in the season is now a doubt for this coming sunday as well so if he's missing and rodry's missing that probably tips the balance a bit against city but

I think the feeling was that both were knocks and they should be okay for this weekend.

Again, this might be the benefit of City being out of Europe at this stage, that they can actually rest for the entire week and be ready to go, because Arsenal still have to navigate that game against Sporting.

Yeah, I'm starting to believe that they're going to go down.

Now, this is obviously they fell into the bottom three after West Ham's good result against Wolves on Friday night.

And I kind of thought Roberto deserved to be coming in.

This is the chance of that new manager bounce, which they really require.

Maybe they go and play against a Sunderland team who are comfortable playing.

in mid-table get a result maybe finally get that first win of the calendar year didn't happen for them and now you look at Spurs going into this coming weekend where they're going to take on Brighton who are the form team in the Premier League at the moment winning five of the last six and it's just difficult to see where Spurs are going to pick up points and you know teams around them did at the weekend even Nottingham Forest picking up that draw against Aston Villa was a very valuable point for them West Ham seem to have enough a point accumulation to potentially pull away from the bottom three and