Gunners shot down by City

Manchester City are looking serious contenders for the Barclays Premier League crown as they demolished the other half of North London at the Etihad by a whopping 6-3 scoreline, denting Arsenal's title aspirations. After a draw with Everton and defeat in Naples, Arsenal ended a bad week with a thumping and a disappointing day was compounded by the imminent suspension of Jack Wilshere and the poor behavior of Mesut Ozil at full time. As Ozil trudged off the field, failing to pay respect to the Arsenal fans, captain and fellow German Per Mertersacker was enraged and showed his passion to the cause, always good to see. 

Despite stuttering away form, Manchester City have a 100% home record and have beaten all but Everton by at least 3 goals, including 7 past Norwich and 6 past Spurs. In particular, the partnership between Alvaro Negredo and Sergio Aguero has blossomed in recent weeks with both on red hot form going into the game, both went onto the score in the rout. Arsenal had been rather resilient and impressive in recent weeks, but after having two goals disallowed and being overran by City's attacking frontier, they fell to pieces and will now look to react next week, against Chelsea.

However, the other half of London weren't gloating for long as they suffered their first league defeat to Liverpool in over 5 seasons as they went down 5-0 at White Hart Lane, a devastating loss which saw Andre Villas-Boas lose his job this past Monday. After a North London derby defeat, a 6-0 whipping at City and now a 5-0 humbling at home, Villas-Boas was running on borrowed time, now Spurs need to sort their season out all they'll be left behind in the top 4 race never mind the title race. Liverpool however look a new side this season, last year they halted and hesitated through to a positive end of season, while now they boast arguably the best player in Premier League at the moment and playing easy on the eye football, they could be in with a shot for the top 4, maybe the title! Luis Suarez has scored 17 goals in the league already, after missing the first 5 games! While others are stuttering, Liverpool are motoring through teams recently and look a real threat this season. 

I personally predicted Manchester City to win the league this year, judging on recent form, i'm confident of sticking to that. They have the best squad in the league, the best strike pair in the league and at home are proving unstoppable. Beating fellow big guns Arsenal, Spurs, United and Everton at home, despite away stumbles, Pellegrini is settling in and now seems to have found his best side. Manchester City look a side who can compete on all four fronts this season, watch this space City fans. 

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Newcastle 1-1 Southampton- Two sides who've been surprisingly impressive this term were equally matched at St James' as Jay Rodriguez finished a lovely move to equalise Yoan Gouffran's opener. It was a very entertaining football match, ending in a scuffle in the technical area between coaching staff after a collision between Massimo Haidara and Morgan Schneiderlin.
Aston Villa 0-3 Manchester United- A well needed win for David Moyes as his United side resisted a spirited Villa start to score 2 quickfire goals to all but kill Villa's momentum. Danny Welbeck slid home two tap ins, vital for his form. Tom Cleverley bagged the third with a well taken near post finish to finish off Villa. A good sight was the return of Darren Fletcher after nearly two years out battling ulcerative colitis.