Manchester City welcome Arsenal to the Etihad Stadium on Sunday evening in matchday 33 of the Premier League.
The Gunners head into this clash as league leaders with 70 points, while their hosts trail them by six points with a game in hand.
By the time the game is played on the 19th of April, Mikel Arteta’s side may have reestablished a nine points gp with five games left to play, or Pep Guardiola may have just moved closer to securing an unexpected Premier League title.
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Arsenal have not been in the best of form domestically since March, losing two-nil to Manchester City in the EFL Cup, losing 2-1 to Southampton in the FA Cup quarterfinal, and getting defeated at home 2-1 by AFC Bournemouth last Saturday.
The Citizens have capitalized on their rivals’ dip in form to move to within six points of the Premier League leaders, still boasting a game in hand too.
Man City have a superior win rate (79.5%) and points-per-game ratio (2.51) in the month of April than any other month in which they have played at least 10 Premier League games, other hand, the less said about Arsenal’s record this month, the better.
Unless O’Reilly is deemed unfit, Guardiola will most likely not make changes to the team that defeated Chelsea.
On Arsenal’s end, Bukayo Saka will not feature due to his injury, and Noni Madueke, despite his knee issue, is expected to take his place once again.
Jurrien Timber, Martin Odegaard and Riccardo Calafiori are all on the visitors’ touch-and-go list.
Match Prediction
This game is more of Manchester City wanting it more because a draw is not enough for them to catch up with Arsenal.
The Gunners can decide to sit back and play for a draw because they are advantage based off the table.
Looking at their past head-to-head encounters, City have shared the points with Arsenal in three of their last six league encounters.
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