Gary Neville performs Premier League title U-turn after Man City and Arsenal drama

Arsenal and Manchester City met for the archetypal clip this play connected Sunday with the 2 Premier League rubric rivals playing retired a melodramatic gully that Gary Neville believes volition beryllium crucial

Gary Neville has changed his caput aft antecedently backing Arsenal to yet triumph the Premier League title.

The Gunners were forced to settee for a dramatic gully with Manchester City astatine the Etihad Stadium connected Sunday. Erling Haaland enactment City up aboriginal connected earlier Ricciardo Calafiori scored a wondergoal to get the visitors backmost connected level terms.

Gabriel past powered successful a header to enactment them up but their hopes of a celebrated triumph were dent erstwhile Leandro Trossard was sent off aft picking up a silly 2nd yellow. Despite a staunch antiaircraft effort successful the second-half, their absorption was breached successful the 98th infinitesimal by John Stones.

City presently pb the mode successful the Premier League, having won the past 3 titles successful succession. But earlier the season, Neville put his backing down Arsenal to extremity their 20-year rubric drought.

"I went with Arsenal to triumph the Premier League past twelvemonth and I'm sticking with them this season. They are connected an upward trajectory and they are getting amended each azygous year," helium told Sky News successful pre-season.

"Obviously, they are up against of the large sides this league has ever produced successful Manchester City nether Pep Guardiola truthful it is ever going to beryllium tough. However, I consciousness similar Arsenal person stableness with the manager Mikel Arteta.

"And they person stableness successful a squad that is inactive improving. You cannot constitute of Manchester City, but I americium going for Arsenal again. They were truthful adjacent past twelvemonth and I deliberation they volition beryllium capable to marque that other measurement this time."

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But successful the aftermath of Sunday's game, Neville has admitted his doubts implicit the Gunners are growing. The Manchester United icon believes Sunday's crippled and Stones' equaliser successful particular, whitethorn good beryllium important successful the rubric race.

"I backed Arsenal astatine the commencement of the play due to the fact that I conscionable felt arsenic though erstwhile a team's hunting you down, yet they get there, much often than not, erstwhile they're getting person and closer," Neville told Sky Sports.

"Today felt similar a monumental, defining infinitesimal successful this travel that Arsenal are on, of trying to get to a league title. Two seasons agone they rather simply fell isolated successful the past 10 games, past play they went truthful close, and past you think, right, okay, they're learning, they're maturing.

"You conscionable think, wherever volition we beryllium successful April and May with this game? Will we beryllium going backmost to that last minute, and what happened with the John Stones goal, volition we beryllium reasoning that City triumph the rubric by 1 point, and that infinitesimal determines it?

"It's ridiculous, due to the fact that determination volition beryllium dropped points, and determination volition beryllium mistakes, and determination volition beryllium tons of victories earlier the extremity of the season, but it is that benignant of concern erstwhile you're up against Pep Guardiola, helium makes you consciousness that way."

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