Man City 3-0 Crystal Palace: Pep Guardiola's "alive" warning to Arsenal as Premier League title race timeline revealed

Pep Guardiola has insisted that Manchester City kept themselves successful the Premier League rubric contention aft his broadside bushed Crystal Palace 3-0 connected Wednesday.

The Citizens headed into their clash with Palace 5 points down league-leaders Arsenal, but they closed that spread to 2 points acknowledgment to goals from Antoine Semenyo, Omar Marmoush and Savinho.

There are lone 2 matchweeks remaining successful the league season, and many present believe that the Gunners volition triumph their last 2 fixtures and assertion archetypal place.

However, Guardiola emphasised his content that his broadside are inactive successful the rubric race, telling Sky Sports: "3-0 Brentford, 3-0 Crystal Palace. This is simply a truly pugnacious hostile with the mode they play.

"I'm truly pleased. We effort to beryllium live until [the end]. The adjacent crippled is Bournemouth, and present our absorption is connected the [FA Cip] final."

City volition play Chelsea successful the FA Cup last connected Saturday, earlier playing Bournemouth connected Tuesday successful the Premier League and ending their run astatine location against Aston Villa connected May 24.

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Man City tin lone triumph the Premier League rubric connected the last time of the play connected May 24, but they would request Arsenal to driblet points successful 1 of their last 2 games, portion besides winning their last 2 matches themselves.

The Gunners volition instrumentality connected Burnley connected Monday, and Mikel Arteta's broadside volition beryllium expected to comfortably assertion 3 points from that fixture.

City would past beryllium forced to bushed Bournemouth connected Tuesday to support their rubric hopes live arsenic they would caput into their clash with the Cherries trailing the Londoners by 5 points with six to play for.

Arsenal volition beryllium guaranteed to decorativeness archetypal if they triumph their past 2 games, but if they were to gully once, past the league could beryllium decided connected extremity difference, with City presently ahead.

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The Citizens' 3-0 triumph against Palace means that Guardiola's broadside present boast a extremity quality fig fo 43, 1 much than Arteta's Arsenal.

If the Gunners were to driblet points against either Burnley oregon Crystal Palace, City could past summation their vantage further arsenic the Londoners' fig would person either stayed the aforesaid oregon decreased.

However, Guardiola volition cognize that his broadside are improbable to triumph the league considering Burnley are already relegated, portion Crystal Palace volition play against Rayo Vallecano successful the Conference League last 3 days aft they look Arsenal connected May 24.

Even if Arteta's broadside dropped points against Palace, it would not beryllium astonishing if their extremity quality was boosted importantly aft playing Burnley, which would marque Guardiola's occupation overmuch much difficult.