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Martin Keown makes Premier League title race prediction as Manchester City now playing catch-up to Liverpool

Giuseppe Labellarte

Fri 29 November 2024 20:15, UK

An exciting Premier League title race is shaping up with a resurgent Liverpool topping the table ahead of the likes of Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Brighton & Hove Albion.

Arne Slot’s Liverpool have had an amazing season so far and are now favourites to win the title, while Man City are currently꧋ in the ꧒worst run of form under Pep Guardiola.

The Citi♕zens lost five games in a row before letting a 3-0 lead slip against Feyenoord in their midweek Champions League encount🌠er, which finished 3-3.

Meanwhile, Chelsea, Arsenal and Brighton are all level on 22 points and will hope to close the gap on the Reds over the🌳 busy festive period.

With Man City in such a poor run of form at present, some are debating whether this is the end of 🎐an era for th🧜e Etihad Stadium side.

Martin Keown has now spoken about Man City as he drew on his experience with the Invincibles to share what things must be🐼 like inside the Citizens dressing room.

READ MORE: Liverpool boss Arne Slot says Pep Guardiola has done so𝄹mething at Man City that he doe🎐sn’t like

Martin Keown backs Manchester City to ‘jump out’ of bad patch

Keown, speaking on , believes Man City are in the same predicament 💟as Arsenal were after their various unbeaten runs.

However, he predicted that the Ci🔥tizens will get out of this predicament under their “outstanding” manager.

“[City] are not so used to losing,” said Keown, whose former team had a 49-game un🐭beaten run in the mid-2000sꦕ.

“Because when you are winning, your chest is out, you’re proud, you know, we’re unbeatable. And then wh💦en that goes, it can disapp🎃ear, it can fall apart. And I think that’s where they are right now.

“So their excel🍎lence in the past has affected how they recover▨, you know, because the building is like a morgue.

“It’s like no one’s used to losin🐻g. I learned this when I went to Leicester a๊nd I went to Reading.

“There are players there that have had, you know, slip ups. You know, it’s almost li⛎ke a major event when you lose a game. It’s an occupational hazard everywhere else. But at big clubs, it doesn’t happen.

“So I expect them to jump out of🍰 this and they’ve got the tools to do that. Pep is an outstanding manager.”

Keown compares Man City to Arsenal Invincibles

Keown noted how difficult it is when a team is u🅺sed to wi♛nning but then goes through a bad patch.

“When you are winning every week everyone on the outsi💖de looks and sa𓃲ys, oh, you’re amazing,” said Keown.

“We had this with the Invincibles and other sea🍰ꦆsons where we went unbeaten for a large period.

“On the inside, I remember speaking to [manager] Arsene Wenger and he was sayin♐g, ‘Look, if we lose a game, you know…’.

Man City have missed Rodri and David Ornstein has reported that they are likely to lo🎀ok for a defe🌠nsive midfielder in the January transfer window.