Unlike their counterparts at Leicester City,we are not fairly at the point where Arsenal’s supporters are emboldened enough to sing approximately winning the league. They are, however, and entitled to believe their team must have an outstanding chance if they can keep this momentum going and,just as importantly, Manchester City continue defending in a way that helps define why the sheikh and his colleagues in Abu Dhabi are apparently intent on ushering in Pep Guardiola.
Arsenal are still two points off Leicester but they now have a four-point lead over City in third position and, or though there were some heart-stopping moments after Yaya Touré’s wonderfully taken 83rd-minute goal,Manuel Pellegrini’s insistence afterwards that his side had been the “dominant” team was generous, to say the least, and largely ignored their deficiencies. This was their fifth defeat already this season and a more accurate reflection would be that Arsenal had the better blend between defence and attack.
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Source: theguardian.com