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.
It is very likely that the three strong teams will collect full points again for this week's match. And yes, this will leave the point difference unchanged and the top 3 rankings will remain the same as now. I agree that Chelsea will not be able to beat Man City. And Liverpool will definitely be able to beat Brentford today. And Arsenal actually has the easiest opponent, namely against Burnley. So I also believe Arsenal will beat Burnley with a score of at least 2 goals.
But on Wednesday Man City will face Brentford and that's when perhaps a change in ranking will occur. And Man City will probably move up to 1st place and make Liverpool drop to 2nd place.
I have feeling top four teams will collect their all points and after 25 rounds we will have 50 points for the Tottenham as well which is now strong candidate for the fourth spot and also going to create good difference from other competitors like Aston Villa and Manchester United which are having tricky matches on road Liverpool and Arsenal are going to visit Brentford and Burnley with both home teams are having not ideal situation which can prevent them from possible defeat.
There is no doubt after few days we are going to have Manchester City as the league leaders because their performance and availability of all players are making things easier for them and things are also favourable for them which are good change for them now at the top we are having clear shape for the possible top four, but few are feeling we can face some dramatic change near the end, but it's not easy now.