Manchester City have an opportunity to cut the points gap between themselves and Arsenal at the top of the Premier League table to just two when welcoming Newcastle United this weekend.
Arsenal's 4-0 win over Everton in midweek extended the league-leaders' advantage over City to five points, but Pep Guardiola's side could cut that in half before Mikel Arteta's team play Bournemouth over the weekend. Playing Newcastle is a difficult one on the face of it after drawing the reverse fixture 3-3 back in August, but the beaten Carabao Cup finalists have seen their downturn in their league form since the World Cup break.
The North East club have won just one of their last seven Premier League games since winning 3-0 against Leicester City back on Boxing Day. Five of those fixtures were drawn, and another ended in defeat, which was suffered in their last league outing against Liverpool when they lost 3-0 at St James' Park.
