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Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPN FC. Kay Murray, Alejandro Moreno and Csaka Hyslop here in the studio kicking things off tonight in the Premier League where we saw a lot of action including Manchester City against Brighton. We also saw a makeshift back line from City including 20-year-old Max Delane, who's been thrown straight in after being recalled from loan at Watford due to all the absences in defence. But it was in the 39th minute that Doku went down under a challenge from Diego Gomez. That would result in a penalty for Man City, which Erling Haaland scored. However, in the 60th minute, Kaoru Mitoma, his goal would prove decisive for Brighton in earning his team a point. For Manchester City, it's more drop points for them because this
was a third successive draw. Let's welcome in Stuart Robson to talk more about what we saw, but just a look at how the standings are. City remaining second, but now they are five points off Arsenal and they're going to have the chance to go eight points clear if they can beat Liverpool tomorrow. It feels like a big shift in the Premier League title race, Stuart.
It certainly does because Man City over the last three games haven't quite been good enough and tonight they weren't good enough. And it allows Arsenal, you know, if Arsenal have a little slip, it doesn't matter quite so much now. They're playing with full of confidence. I think they will beat Liverpool tomorrow and there'll be eight points clear. And I think they're going to win the title by quite some way in the end. Because Man City at the moment, as you saw in those clips there, defensively, they were all over the place for the first 20 minutes. Yes, it was a sort of a makeshift back four with several players injured. But they didn't create enough going forward. Most of the chances that they created were given to them by Brighton.
You missed a couple of others out there where they played out from the back Brighton and gave Man City easy chances.
What happened in the Premier League title race this week?
So it wasn't a great performance. Rodri came on in the last 20 minutes, but didn't have an influence on the game. But overall, I think it was a fair result. Brighton had some big chances. Man City had some chances, but didn't control the game. And if you don't control games when you're playing at home against the likes of Brighton, I don't think you can expect to win the Premier League at the moment.
How bad is it for the title race for Man City, Shaq?
I can give them some of their feelings. That was clearly on display against Brighton, a good footballing team in Brighton. You just feel, especially when you draw the comparisons between Manchester City and Arsenal, who generally don't drop points, given the gap that they're on, you just wonder where, not where, City now have to be perfect from here to the end of the season, and even so, where do Arsenal drop those points? For me, and we're in January, the January transfer window is open, you expect Pep Guardiola and Manchester City to do an awful lot of business, but there are just so many holes in this Manchester City team, particularly defensively. How do you fix that defence in one transfer window?
I'm not sure. Again, and as far as attacking-wise goes, Doku on the pitch today, I find they look so much better when he's on the park, have two natural wingers, a lot of talk about Semenyo, whether he comes in. As it happens, he played on that left-hand side for Bournemouth today. Maybe having two orthodox wingers gets the best out of Erling Haaland yet again. But there's just so much for Pep Guardiola to fix in a very short space of time and no wiggle room between now and the end of the season.
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