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And I'm Gabriel Marcotti and we thank you for joining us on this fine Thursday morning.

Now with us in the studio, yes I'm excited because he's

back again it's Alan Smith and down the line from Rippenden that's right it's Ollie K

later on we'll be looking at another miserable away day for Arsenal.

But we start with perhaps the biggest game of Liverpool season so far and they weren't even playing.

Manchester City played their game in hand at Old Trafford last night,

ran out two nil winners in the Manchester Derby.

The result means City are now point clear of Liverpool in the title race

with both sides having three matches left to play.

Ollie was this city's most significant hurdle to clear?

You would have said so going into yesterday and I think you would have said so half time

because United gave it a good go in the first half and

and were competitive and defending well competing in midfield occasionally looking like they might just do something on the counterattack.

I would say yes it was the hardest game just because of the individual quality that Manchester did still have in some positions.

It didn't end up as hard as it could have been and maybe burny away or brighten away or Lester at home ends up being

tougher games but I would say that psychologically that was that was the biggest of

their remaining hurdle so it would be a surprise if a surprise if they were to stumble there.

I mean you could see a scenario I guess where if Brighton needs something from the last game of the

season although logic suggests that you know maybe they won't given what

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