Alan Shearer believes the Premier League title battle will be decided when Manchester City hosts Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in April.
The Gunners conceded a late equalizer against Wolves at Molineux on Wednesday night, wasting the opportunity to build a seven-point lead at the top of the table.
Pep Guardiola’s team will visit Newcastle United on Saturday afternoon before Arsenal play Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday evening. City may put more pressure on the Gunners by cutting the lead to just two points.
In an interview with Betfair as reported by Football London, Shearer claimed that Arsenal are beginning to feel the pressure.
Shearer Had His Say On The EPL Title Race
The Newcastle United legend said: “Cracks are starting to show now for Arsenal, and I think because of being 2-0 up and then being pegged back as they were by the team bottom of the Premier League in Wolves, it doesn’t look good.
“I pretty much expected this. I never thought they’d run away with it. Very rarely do teams do that, particularly with teams that haven’t won it for a long time, like Arsenal.
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“So, from that point of view, I get it and understand it, but that would be a concern, and whether they like it or not, Arsenal probably haven’t liked people going on about them bottling it, them chucking it away, and the pressure being on them.
“They probably haven’t liked it. Well, they won’t like what’ll happen in the next few days now, because the noise will get a lot louder.
“There’ll be a lot more of that now because of what happened on Wednesday, and you can imagine how loud it’ll be if Tottenham beat them on Sunday as well.”
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