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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akim Oleri.

After defeat at the Etihad, Arsenal have lost control of the title race.

Manchester City can go top of the Premier League with a win at Burnley on Wednesday night.

So, after 22 years of waiting, have Arsenal blown their chance

at the title? In with us today, we've got our football correspondent, David Ornstein, and we've also

got, as ever, on the Monday, Adam Crafton as well. So David, a fourth defeat in a row for Arsenal

across the domestic competitions has handed

Manchester City advantage in the title race. Look, this was earmarked as a defining game in

the season. Did it live up to expectation from where you were sitting? Yeah, it was a good game. It

was intense and Arsenal turned up, which is something that many were questioning, especially

after the Bournemouth defeat, which may come to be seen as more of a defining moment.

Actually, it was crushing that they failed to go 12 points clear.

And now at the time of recording, it's down to three with City having the ability to overhaul

them.

It kind of lived up to the billing.

Sometimes when it gets to this stage of the season between two rivals, turns out to be a bit of an anti-climax

and cancel each other out, but it was more open than many expected. I think we knew what we were

going to get from City, and they delivered on that. Arsenal was the sort of bigger question,

and they'll come away

feeling they should have taken at least a point. There's going to be no sympathy. You've got to put

away your chances. Arsenal didn't do that. Manchester City did. And I don't think that it was

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