🚨 Liverpool Soars Against European Challenge Seekers!
Erling Haaland has converted just eight per cent of his shots in his last 12 league games [Getty Images] One of the short hands for a side facing an almost-impossible task is when they require a number of points greater than than the number of games remaining. That is the task facing Manchester City if they are to overtake Arsenal - they are nine points off the Premier League leaders with eight games to go. It is the furthest City have been behind the Gunners since 7 February, and time is running very short for them to close the gap.
The only team to win a Premier League title from nine points back having played 30 or more games is Manchester City themselves in 2013-14. On that occasion it was Liverpool who gave up the advantage as they failed to end a long title drought; City now need Arsenal to do the same. But they also need to find a consistency and a cutting edge which has evaded Pep Guardiola's men at just the wrong time.