As a notice that the Premier League and that you can sense some normality in football, yesterday it rained again in Manchester. Today's forecast points to a storm. The teams take three weeks training for this restarting the competition, but “it is not enough”. It says Pep Guardiola, who appeared before the media by Zoom: “We do not know what level we are at and I believe that the other teams do not either.”
Manchester City It's one of the four clubs they resume today to Arsenal at Etihad Stadium (21:15, DAZN). The citizens they are 25 points from the leader and without too much fighting for securing his place in the top four: “In Spain and Germany they had five or six weeks of preparation. Neither team is ready to playr every three daysso we will have to rotate playersGuardiola assured.
Even if Liverpool has the title to shot –six points to winor mathematically – City prepares this month and a half of league with the play off against him Real Madrid on the horizon: “Right now we don't think about Real Madrid or in the Champions League. I don't prepare games that are so long-term “. In addition, also they are alive in the FA Cup (quarterfinals against Newcastle).
The good newsyet they come in the form of recoveries. All the template is available, which means that so much Aymeric Laporte like Leroy Sané are back of his injuries. The German was injured in August and will be a new option in attack City, although his future at the club is unknown: he ends his contract next year and has not renewed. In the technical area it will be released Juanma Lillo as assistant, “the right person to help us “, in the words of Pep.
For his part, the Arsenal it's ninth on the board and has the difficult challenge of getting on the train of European competitions. Is to five points Manchester United, fifth, although with one less game. It will be the Mikel Arteta return to the Etihad bench, although as a visitor: “I have talked to him about what wine we are going to drink after the game,” Guardiola joked about the reunion.
In the other match of the day, el Aston Villa search get out of the descent and cut the worst streak of any team before the break: four consecutive defeats. The rival is not a priori the simplest. The Sheffield United, the great revelation of the season, occupies the seventh position in the table …