Gary Neville explains new Man City Premier League title timeline with brutal Arsenal verdict made

Gary Neville is worried that the title race will be decided before the final day of the season despite Arsenal continuing to push Manchester City all the way. For the fourth week in a row both sides were victorious, leaving things as they have been, a single point gap at the top.

Mikel Arteta's side once more went first, beating Bournemouth 3-0 in comfortable style, but were never truly given much belief that City would be unable to match their result. Erling Haaland scored four in a 5-1 win for Pep Guardiola's side just hours later to leave it as they were.

Now, with just two games to go, three for City, Neville can't see a way that the champions drop points. Although they do travel to Tottenham next week in the toughest remaining match, four defeats in a row for Ange Postecoglou's side has left very little to play for.

Spurs were beaten 4-2 by Liverpool on Sunday having gone 4-0 down shortly after half-time. Speaking on commentary Neville said he wasn't confident that Tottenham would be able to do their rivals a helping hand. «I think Arsenal fans, coaches and players, if you were looking at this Tottenham team and thinking can they somehow raise their game for that game a week on Tuesday, it is looking doubtful as you see them now in front of you,» he said.

On his Sky Sports podcast after the match he continued: «That's the problem. A few weeks ago I said they [Arsenal] would have to be perfect and they have just had that one slip up didn't they, against Aston Villa. There's an inevitability to City isn't there at this stage of the season, getting the job done and doing what they need to do.

»They have got that difficult game at Spurs on paper in 10 days but the way that Spurs are at this moment in time I think it'll be