After entering the new year, Manchester City increased the speed and started a fantastic series, while Arsenal has been giving points away in recent weeks. The result is a change at the top. Citizens took over the leadership position and cancelled a huge deficit. They are in pole position, but the Gunners are not losing hope. At least briefly, Arsenal can go around City, and they need a victory in the London derby against Chelsea to do so. Although the situation at the Emirates is getting worse week by week, coach Mikel Arteta still believes that there is a chance that Pep Guardiola’s company will fail and that luck will return to North London.🗣️| Frank Lampard: “I think it’s interesting to compare the Arsenal story with ours. We all had a little insight into Arsenal and how they operate through the Amazon series and I think what you see is that there’s a long process to get to where you want to. “I remember playing… pic.twitter.com/fqp45H7imL— Arsenal Buzz (@ArsenalBuzzCom) May 1, 2023 Speaking ahead of the match with totally out-of-form Blues, the Spaniard tried to cheer up the fans and himself in this uncomfortable situation.“The reality is that for 247 days we’ve been with City. We still have the nicest part of the season to play with five games to go. When I still look at it, this is not over, you know? I would pay a lot of money to be in this position again next season. A lot, believe me. I want to maximise the moment we have and go for it. Now it is not in our hands. What is in our hands is to win our games. That’s what we’re going to try to do and the rest is down to City” said Arteta. And he knows it’s gonna be tough since Arsenal’s remaining schedule includes an away game at Newcastle and a home game against Brighton, among others.Mou rejects his Chelsea for a possible third spell with the BluesHis counterpart Frank Lampard, doesn’t have such worries. Chelsea’s interim boss knows he won’t be at Stamford Bridge next season and has only his pride to play for, as he is the only Chelsea coach to lose five straight games in charge. Even thou they have 18 new players (worth 600 million pounds), they are miles away from Manchester City, and one of the reasons is the stability in the coaching position. Not only that Lampard is the third Chelsea coach in under a year, but the former Blues midfielder thinks that even under previous owner Roman Abramovich there was no such stability.“I was part of the Chelsea team that changed managers regularly. With casual hindsight, it is easy to say I had great success. I won three titles, but I should have won five or six. That’s my feeling, if we had had more consistency and been able to work in one direction. You look at the successful models at the top end of the league and you see managers that have been working there a long time, recruitment aligned with the type of squad they want. You see City, Liverpool and Arsenal. So clearly if you want to get there it’s something that hopefully aligns. At the moment for us, it hasn’t” admits Lampard.PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 34Saturday Crystal Palace – West Ham 4-3 (3-2)/Ayew 15, Zaha 20, Schlupp 30, Eze 66 pen – Soucek 9, Antonio 35, Aguerd 72/Brentford – Nott. Forest 2-1 (0-1)/Toney 82, Dasilva 90+4 – Danilo 45+1/Brighton – Wolverhampton 6-0 (4-0)/Undav 6, 66, Gross 13, 26, Welbeck 39, 48/SundayMan.Utd. – Aston Villa 1-0 (1-0)/Fernandes 39/Newcastle – Southampton 3-1 (0-1)/Wilson 55, Walvott 79 og, Wilson 81 – Armstrong 41/Fulham – Man.City 1-2 (1-2)/Vinicius 15 – Haaland 2 pen, Alvarez 36/Bournemouth – Leeds 4-1 (2-1)/Lerma 20, 24, Solanke 63, Semenyo 90+1 – Bamford 32/Liverpool – Tottenham 4-3 (3-0)/Jones 3, Diaz 5. Salah 14 pen, Jota 90+4 – Kane 40, Son 77, Richarlison 90+3/Monday Leicester – Everton 2-2 (2-1)/Soyuncu 22, Vardy 33 – Calvert-Lewin 15 pen, Iwobi 54/Tuesday 22.00: (1.70) Arsenal (3.80) Chelsea (5.60)***odds are subject to change***
