Man City's statement win at Chelsea, Arsenal's stuttering title challenge and can the unthinkable happen to Spurs?!

Peter Drury· Host0:00

Hello, everybody. It's the Gary Neville Podcast, which comes to you from Stamford Bridge this evening at, uh, not quite the end of the Premier League weekend. There's a big game tomorrow, which we'll talk about. But at the end, in the context of the title race of what we might consider, Gary, to be a swing weekend, and Manchester City- Yeah ... have just made a big statement.

Gary Neville· Guest0:18

They have, and the perfect scenario for anybody in a title race is that you play first, particularly when you're in front, and you can just stretch that league and really apply pressure. And Arsenal lost that, uh, ability yesterday by losing that game against Bournemouth. So you wake up this morning, Manchester City have traveled down to London yesterday afternoon with a bit of a smirk on their face thinking something's happening. And when you're a serial title winner like Pep Guardiola and this Manchester City team, or some of them, you're gonna be thinking, "Right, it's happening." And I, I thought Manchester City would win today. I was surprised at how lethargic they were in that first half, but he's obviously sort of put a rocket up them in the s- at, at half time, and they've come out in the second half, they've really stepped up a gear or two. They've added pace and tempo into everything that they're doing. They've been a bit more direct. I don't mean direct by knocking it long. I mean a bit more direct by placing, putting balls into the box a bit quicker, and they got the benefit of that. Um, it was a statement victory, um, a clean sheet. Not a great Chelsea performance just generally. I, even in the first half, I think, when, you know, I was listening to Micah and Daniel say at half time they thought Chelsea had done okay, and they did do okay, but I, I think