The best league in the world needs a title race to match, and the Premier League’s top two have served up a thrilling season to date.
Since Arsenal and Manchester City established themselves as the two teams in the showdown, it has been a tense and thoroughly entertaining head-to-head battle for the crown. That’s not taking anything away from Liverpool, who raced clear to claim the title last term without having to deal with as much jeopardy as we’ve seen this time around, but having a title race as good as this has provided even more excitement.
Arsenal have been top since October, and deservedly so as the strongest and most consistent competitor. But Mikel Arteta’s side let City back into the contest, and given the six Premier League titles on Pep Guardiola’s mantelpiece already, a sense of inevitability about City making an incredible charge to snatch it from Arsenal’s hands began to feel very real.
