{"id":2319,"date":"2026-04-13T01:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:11:55","slug":"man-city-set-sights-on-arsenal-and-title-after-chelsea-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2319","title":{"rendered":"Man City set sights on Arsenal and title after Chelsea win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Man City believe the Premier League title race with Arsenal is back on after securing a massive victory over Chelsea on Sunday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nico O\u2019Reilly, Marc Guehi and Jeremy Doku all scored in the second half at Stamford Bridge to secure a 3-0 win and bring them within six points of the Gunners in the table.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides meet at Eastlands next weekend in what Pep Guardiola admits will be a \u201cdefinitive\u201d clash in the quest for the title.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Man City set sights on Arsenal and title after Chelsea win<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWell, we\u2019ve had a three games, but the best team in England so far is Arsenal,\u201d he said after the final whistle. \u201cThe best team in Europe so far is Arsenal, because the numbers are there, the consistency they have had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have the definitive match ball next Sunday, and will prepare well this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will adjust, compared to the Carabao Cup final and what we have to do with our people to try to perform well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s what defines the teams, it\u2019s how you play. In October, November, January, February, if you don\u2019t grow as a team, and the way you play, you don\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have to insist to play better and better, that\u2019s the only thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doku said \u201cI would be crazy if I didn\u2019t believe\u201d in Man City\u2019s chances of finish first. \u201cI believe the race is on. We have a big game now, we\u2019re going to recover well and look forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will come with hunger. They don\u2019t want to just give it to us so we have to go and take it. Trust me, we\u2019ll be well prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the Arsenal game will decide the destination of the Premier League title, the winger responded: \u201cI think so. If you win this game, it is a big punch towards them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you lose, it\u2019s in their hands and we have to wait for them to lose. But if we win, it\u2019s in our hands and I prefer to have it in my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd set for \u00a3100m transfer battle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See Also\u00a0\u2013 Power Rankings: PSG on the march, Arsenal on the slide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FootyFaithful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thefootballfaithfull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCUgN0WQEhxRbfTdlbkEG7zQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thefootballfaithful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man City believe the Premier League title race with Arsenal is back on after securing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}