Gary Neville hits nail on the head about title race after Man City's latest defeat

Manchester City's play went from atrocious to worse arsenic they were hammered by Tottenham and Gary Neville claims a Premier League rubric would present beryllium their finest achievement

Gary Neville believes if Manchester City tin onshore different Premier League rubric this word it volition beryllium Pep Guardiola's top triumph.

The champions had looked primed to spell aft a 5th successive occurrence astatine the commencement of the play but find themselves astatine their lowest ebb successful years. City person present mislaid 5 connected the bounce successful each competitions with Tottenham hammering them 4-0 astatine the Etihad connected Saturday night.

Guardiola is seeking answers arsenic helium looks to negociate a hard play of the play minus immoderate of his biggest names. City's show levels though person nosedived and their nonaccomplishment means Liverpool tin unfastened up a staggering 8 constituent pb connected Sunday.

The 2 teams conscionable adjacent week astatine Anfield - a stadium that hasn't been benignant to Guardiola and co - and Neville believes if City tin apprehension their descent and flooded the shortage to Liverpool it would fertile supra each else.

He claimed: "It's a large crippled adjacent week, Liverpool vs City, and there's lone a fewer points successful it, there's a agelong mode to go, but it feels similar today, if Man City were to triumph the rubric this season, I deliberation it would beryllium Pep's top Premier League."

City person been immensely ascendant and Neville admits, having been determination himself successful his Manchester United days, that scaling the upland clip aft clip becomes progressively difficult.

He told Sky Sports: "When you're connected the diminution - and I hatred to usage the connection decline, but it does consciousness similar it - it's a radical of players with a fig of things [going wrong]. The thought of increasing somewhat aged together, the thought of playing the measurement of games together, the carnal and intelligence demands of that, and the 3rd happening is however galore times you tin support going.

"I played for a manager and a nine who kept going, but determination were times erstwhile you conscionable autumn over. You've won the league 3 times connected the bounce, twice, you've done doubles, you've won trebles, and you conscionable can't spell immoderate further.

"Your shoulders conscionable driblet a bit, and it looks similar that's the benignant of happening that's happened here. It's a radical of players who person tally a cardinal miles. They've been sensational. But they've go a small spot punch-drunk. Leggy, lacking successful energy, they've mislaid players and a mates of captious players retired done injury.

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