I personally still believe Manchester City can win this match, even though City seem to have difficulty breaking through the Southampton defense to create goals, but the opportunity is always open, just waiting for the right momentum to execute. besides that, Southampton are tough enough to be able to withstand strong and fast attacks from Manchester City, as we know Southampton have performed very badly this season, based on statistics they are ranked bottom.
It cannot be imagined that a draw will be obtained from this match, even the worst possibility of defeat that Manchester City might experience, this will make things even worse, because this is a good opportunity to add 3 valuable points for Manchester City.
The match has just ended with Manchester City dropping two valuable points in my opinion, this is certainly a big blow to them and a huge twist in the race for the top four. Dropping this points means they have to win their remaining matches which is luckily against Bournemouth and Fulham, ideally I would have actually expected them to win this games considering their recent form but the game today shows that something can still happen, I hope they don’t actually take this form to the FA cup final against Crystal Palace next weekend because it is there only source of getting a trophy this season.
They are still in third place on the table and just two points above Chelsea and Newcastle who both play against each other tomorrow and four points ahead of Nottingham Forest, they wouldn’t be dropping off the top five this weekend but if Nottingham Forest wins then the competition will be back on
Yes, I agree with you, that when Liverpool faced Arsenal later, Liverpool was actually confirmed from the start as the champion and they faced the match casually, because for them the match would be played in front of their supporters, and I saw Arsenal were quite disappointed after failing to advance to the next final in the Champions League, even so, both teams will show their performance when the match arrives.
A loss in this game will simply just drag arsenal back into this top four race something that I will see as a shameful thing because instead of competing for the league they end up competing for top four, this game should be won by them as a compensation for the loss against PSG just to cheer up the fans a loss here will put Arteta’s future in strong doubt yet again