{"id":601061,"date":"2026-04-13T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601061\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:25:16","slug":"premier-league-title-race-manchester-city-have-psychological-edge-over-arsenal-says-wayne-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601061\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League title race: Manchester City have psychological edge over Arsenal, says Wayne Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former England captain Wayne Rooney says Manchester City<\/a> “will have the edge” psychologically in the Premier League title race.<\/p>\n

Leaders Arsenal<\/a>, who are six points clear having played one game more, travel to Etihad Stadium on Sunday (16:30 BST).<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Wayne Rooney Show, he said City “know how to win the title” and “have a manager who knows how to do it”.<\/p>\n

“I think City will have the edge on that, just purely the manager and players they’ve got. They will be able to stay a little calmer than the Arsenal<\/a> players,” said Rooney.<\/p>\n

“They will be worried because when you go on a run and lose a few games, you start thinking ‘where’s the next goal, the next win going to come from?’ That negative mindset really has an impact on your performance.”<\/p>\n

Manchester City<\/a> beat Chelsea 3-0<\/a> on Sunday to take advantage of Arsenal<\/a> slipping up with a 2-1 defeat by Bournemouth<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Rooney said that whoever wins Sunday’s “title decider” in Manchester will be favourites to win the league.<\/p>\n

He added that he thinks a draw will be a “good point” for Arsenal<\/a>, who may need to “play dirty”.<\/p>\n

Rooney added Mikel Arteta’s side must “be tough to break down, make sure there’s no gaps between the lines and try to hit them on the break”.<\/p>\n

He added: “Whether the fans like that type of football or not, they have to do anything to stop City winning. They need to be resilient enough to stop City from scoring.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England captain Wayne Rooney says Manchester City “will have the edge” psychologically in the Premier League title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-601061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}