The potential results leading to Manchester City maintaining their lead, albeit by a narrow margin, sounds plausible. The top three teams in the standings maintaining their positions would indeed keep the title race intense and captivating for fans and neutrals alike. But football is a sport with full of surprises, and anything can happen on matchday. anyway, whatever the results, These three teams are going to be three horses race for the title this season, because even if any team lose, the points gap is still so close.
This week the three teams you mentioned still have the chance to win and get full points in their respective matches. Because I'm not sure Chelsea will be able to hold off Manchester City to win at home this week, so the three top teams you mentioned still have the potential to have the same points gap after this week's match. Because the opponents they will meet in this week's match are opponents who are not stronger than themselves.
The top three teams are teams that are trying to maintain their performance so far this season and are trying to fight for the EPL title. I'm not too sure which team will be able to survive until the end because they continue to performed well until now and continue to wins to continues to collect as many points.
Chelsea won't be able to stop Man City from winning at home even though in football it can still be surprising but I'm not sure Chelsea can do it. The only thing that can stop Man City is when Chelsea can score the same goal to achieve a draw to share 1 point but I don't think Man City will allow that.
Even when we are talking draw and it's hard to believe if chelsea will able to get draw against manchester city. Im not being skeptical about it but talkin about the fact that if chelsea is still so damn bad when it must be performing against the big club. Chelsea has so many weakness unlike manchester city which is far superior compard to the it.
Im also thinking that if chelsea may be able to perform better but it's unlikely chelsea has good chance to win the game. Im talking about the fact that if manchester city becomes very productive after it has got haaland and de bruyne back again.
It seems chelsea will lose with huge margins against manchester city. Probably 3-1 against city. Chelsea can only play stable on the defensive mode to increase the chance to beat city. City is always playing the ball possession to isolating its opponent. The counter attack strategy becomes the most effective strategy to do that.
So, it's a hard job for pochettino to beat manchester city soon. Im not saying that's impossible but the chance may be less than 1%. City is very strong in all of aspects compared to the chelsea.