Jamie Carragher believes Manchester Metropolis have the sting within the Premier League title race regardless of their vulnerability to counter-attacks.
Pep Guardiola’s aspect are unbeaten this season and sit second within the Premier League, one level behind leaders Liverpool after eight video games.
Final season’s runners-up Arsenal suffered their first lack of the season in a 2-0 defeat at Bournemouth, which has left Mikel Arteta’s aspect 4 factors off the highest.
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The Gunners host Liverpool on the Emirates Stadium on Sunday, stay on Sky Sports activities, however earlier than that sport Metropolis might go prime with victory at house over winless Southampton on Saturday – and Carragher feels the champions stay favourites to assert a fifth straight Premier League title.
He advised Sky Sports activities Information: “I nonetheless suppose Manchester Metropolis, surely, have an edge on Liverpool. And possibly simply Arsenal, possibly.
“You change your mind every week, don’t you on the back of results, but I still think City are the team to beat – and Liverpool and Arsenal, you can flip a coin.”
‘Metropolis weak to counter-attack’
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Highlights from the Premier League conflict between Wolves and Manchester Metropolis
Carragher, nonetheless, does really feel the reigning champions are prone to counter-attacks this marketing campaign following the season-ending harm to Rodri.
Metropolis have solely saved one clear sheet within the league this season and conceded a counter-attack objective of their latest win over Wolves, whereas giving up a number of probabilities to Fulham on the transition.
“I think they do look a little bit more vulnerable to the counter-attack,” Carragher mentioned. “That is at all times the best way to harm Manchester Metropolis, as a result of they’ve a lot possession.
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Sky Sports activities’ Sam Blitz explains the impact Rodri’s absence on Manchester Metropolis’s skill to manage possession
“The only way you can really score or hurt them is set-pieces and on the counter-attack.
“I believe lacking Rodri will damage them. I believe it will damage them extra within the Champions League, whenever you’re taking part in higher-class opposition whenever you get into the quarter-finals and semi-finals. That is when they could really feel it a bit bit extra.
“I still think they can win the league without Rodri, even though he’s one of the top players in the Premier League.”
‘January might be fascinating for Liverpool’
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Metropolis sit a degree behind Liverpool after the Reds beat Chelsea on Sunday 2-1 at Anfield to regain prime spot following Metropolis’s victory at Wolves.
Arne Slot turned the primary Liverpool boss to win 10 of his first 11 video games, with the Reds’ electrical begin coming regardless of solely signing one first-team participant for this season in the summertime.
Carragher believes his former aspect will make a signing in January if they’re within the operating for the title.
He mentioned: “They’re very much pushing [to win the Premier League title], as they were last season. We shouldn’t forget that.
“They have not strengthened. It will be actually fascinating to see if Liverpool do carry anybody in in January. They did not carry an excessive amount of in in the summertime.
“And if they think they’ve got a realistic chance at the title and there’s a player that they feel fits their criteria, their model, I think they’ll pay the money to bring that player in.”
Carra: Arsenal’s pink card concern ‘has to cease rapidly’
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Jamie Carragher says Arsenal’s pink card rely has acquired to cease in the event that they need to shut the hole to Manchester Metropolis and win the Premier League
Metropolis’s closest challengers for the final two seasons, Arsenal, obtained their third pink card of the season after William Saliba’s sending-off within the Bournemouth defeat.
Carragher insists the Gunners’ disciplinary points should be resolved if they’re to raise their first Premier League title in 21 years.
Requested whether or not Arsenal’s disciplinary issues will break their possibilities of successful the league, he replied: “Yes, if it doesn’t stop. It has to stop quickly.
“To get three pink playing cards within the first eight video games of the season is absolutely poor. They might really feel a bit bit onerous completed by on sure points, however after I take a look at all of the conditions, they’re deserved pink playing cards. I do not suppose they might actually argue an excessive amount of, and it is price them.
“You consider the positions they discovered themselves in. They have been beating Brighton at house when the pink card comes, they have been beating Manchester Metropolis away when the pink card comes, and it was stage at Bournemouth.
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Jamie Carragher claims that Bournemouth’s first objective towards Arsenal was the ‘objective of the season’ up to now and means that it is a set-piece tactic that he is by no means seen earlier than
“So they’ve dropped points in all the games from the situation that they found themselves in, 11 v 11. It’s a huge problem.”
Carragher added on Monday Evening Soccer: “This has got to stop. You’re talking about a team in Manchester City that are already three points ahead [of Arsenal] – you can’t afford to let someone like that get away from you.
“You take a look at Manchester Metropolis and Liverpool they usually can nonetheless win video games in that scenario. So you need to ask your self about Arsenal’s set-up in these conditions – is it proper tactically how they are going about it?”
Watch Arsenal vs Liverpool stay on Sky Sports activities Premier League from 4pm on Sunday; kick-off 4.30pm.
