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The Gary Neville Podcast

City have to avoid complacency in title race, Arsenal not ready for top 4 challenge and Sarri's dressing room dilemma

The Gary Neville Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports, Soccer

4.3903 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Martin Tyler is joined by Gary Neville to reflect on a Manchester City’s 3-1 win over Arsenal. Gary warns against City losing focus in their title challenge, suggests that Arsenal are not ready for a top four challenge and also discuss Sarri's relationship with his Chelsea squad.

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Gary Neville podcast. Gary, we're talking to everybody from the Eddie Hadstadion

0:39.6

where one of the big fixtures, Manchester City against Arsenal,

0:43.8

has been conclusively won by the defending champions.

0:47.3

What have you made of it?

0:49.8

Well, it was a bizarre first half in the sense that you saw the first 10 minutes

0:53.3

and you just thought,

0:58.2

Manchester City could have been two, three, four up at any point.

1:04.5

And there was a clear gulf in quality between the two teams.

1:10.1

But Arsenal got a goal from a set piece and the next 25 minutes, I through us a little bit and city are having these

1:12.3

periods in games where they drift through games the tempo drops they're walking on the ball and

1:17.2

they're just letting teams believe they're in the game and giving them a bit of encouragement

1:21.3

but the minute that they step it up a little bit and add a little bit of their quality that

1:24.4

they've got and go into that fourth and fifth gear, they can step away again.

1:27.9

And the biggest risk for Manchester City, I suppose, is that they're clearly better than

1:32.9

every team in the league, apart from probably Liverpool, where it's a real, it is close.

1:38.1

And it's whether they can maintain that level of intensity or whether they're going to get caught out.

1:42.2

And just for that little bit of lack of concentration or focus or a little bit of complacency,

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