Man City is a bit behind after drawing two matches in a row. They drew 2-2 against Arsenal, although the team Man city avoided defeat at the last minute. If john stones failed to score in the last minute, City would have lost. On the other hand, despite scoring an early goal against Newcastle, they were unable to win in the end. Anthony Gordon equalized 1-1 in the 58th minute. But Liverpool team resolute in their intentions. Their win against Wolverhampton has now moved them behind points table leaders Manchester City. All the top 4 teams are competing well at the moment. Liverpool will try to maintain this consistency. Even though Manchester City have drawn two matches they have not yet lost any match in this season so they will try to go back to the first position.
Injuries to several key Manchester City players have greatly affected Manchester City's performance and that has been proven when they drew two consecutive matches, this clearly shows a decline in the quality of the Manchester City team because they also do not have adequate cover to be able to cover the gap left by injured players so that the rotation carried out by Pep Guardiola did not run smoothly.
Meanwhile, Liverpool continues to show positive performance and victory over Wolverhampton is a natural thing because Liverpool is indeed much stronger in terms of quality.
And for the position in the Premier League standings at this time, I think it does not have a big impact, it is still early in the season and all teams still have to continue to improve their performance.
The negative results achieved by Manchester City in the two matches actually did not make them lose their favorite status as champions, but indeed losing points in important matches will obviously make their journey difficult, I think the loss of Rodri and also De Bruyne not the main factor that made them fail to beat Newcastle in that match, because Guardiola did field substitutes who were no less good than De Bruyne and also Rodri in the match In my opinion, the solidity of the defense and also the midfield built by Newcastle in the match is clearly the reason why they have difficulty breaking into the Newcastle goal.
Liverpool have shown how their mentality in that match as title contenders this season, although it was difficult to dismantle the wolves defense but finally they were able to win the match although it was difficult because of the resistance from wolves, the achievement of 3 points in the match against wolves makes them now manage to seize the top of the standings from Manchester City who in the other match drew with Newcastle.