Despite Arsenal finishing the weekend top of the table, Liverpool can feel they hold the advantage in a thrilling Premier League title race following their 1-1 draw against Manchester City.
— Arsenal were the only winners at the end of Liverpool’s titanic tussle with Manchester City at Anfield, but after fighting back to earn a 1-1 draw against the champions, Jurgen Klopp’s team are the ones who really have the advantage in the Premier League title race.
Having scored a late winner to seal a 2-1 win against Brentford at the Emirates on Saturday, Arsenal claimed the top spot in the table and held onto it as two of the best sides of the Premier League era slugged it out for almost 100 minutes on Sunday to end the day with a point apiece.
But while a first glance at the table would suggest that the momentum is now with the Gunners, who are a point clear of Liverpool at the top by ending the day ahead of Pep Guardiola’s team — a side attempting to become the first English squad to win four successive titles — Liverpool will now believe that their destiny is in their own hands.
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Win each of their remaining 10 league games and they will finish ahead of City, no matter how many victories Guardiola’s side rack up between now and the end of the campaign.
And with Arsenal having to travel to City in their next game, before negotiating perennially tough away fixtures at Tottenham and Manchester United during the run-in, the odds would seem to favour Liverpool as they attempt to tie a bow on Klopp’s reign as manager by seeing him off with the title.
Arsenal will need to banish all those doubts about their ability to hold their nerve in the final weeks of the season as Mikel Arteta’s players have buckled under the strain while chasing the title and a top-four finish in each of the past two seasons.
