{"id":540534,"date":"2026-04-20T05:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540534\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:38:13","slug":"man-city-2-1-arsenal-are-pep-guardiolas-side-now-favourites-for-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540534\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City 2-1 Arsenal: Are Pep Guardiola’s side now favourites for title?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Manchester United<\/a> captain Wayne Rooney told BBC Match of the Day Arsenal<\/a> will win the title by two points, with the Gunners winning all their remaining matches and Man City drawing at Everton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said: “This title race is not over yet, I still feel like there are some more twists and turns to come. It is obviously going to be tight but City have got one more game to try to win, so I still have Arsenal<\/a> down as slight favourites.<\/p>\n

“I have been in this situation myself, where you need to win all your games. You look at your games and you think well we should win this one, or that one, but it never pans out that way.<\/p>\n

“From now until the end of the season it is just going to be down to which team keeps their composure the best – that is who will win it.<\/p>\n

“City’s fixtures look a little bit more difficult. The Arsenal<\/a> fans have a big part to play, they need to get behind their team.<\/p>\n

Ex-Tottenham<\/a> and Liverpool<\/a> midfielder Danny Murphy told BBC Match of the Day, Man City will win the title on goal difference, with both teams winning their remaining fixtures.<\/p>\n

He said: “I think it edges it [the title race] towards City. Momentum, confidence and all of those things. I was really pleased with the game, I expected it to be much more cagey. Lots of quality and great moments, edge of your seat stuff.<\/p>\n

“They are such powerful teams that I think they will win all the games. Bournemouth<\/a> away could be tough for Man City and West Ham<\/a> is probably the one to watch for Arsenal<\/a>. But I think it will be goal difference and Man City will edge it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney told BBC Match of the Day Arsenal will win the title by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}