Among top - flight clubs,
only leaders Manchester United have been in better form than Arsenal over their last eight league matches.
Not exact matches
These three points take them to 13th in the Premier League, but perhaps more importantly to
only eight points behind
leaders Manchester City.
However, conceding twelve goals is the number that will worry Liverpool fans the most, especially when they see league
leaders Manchester United and
Manchester City have
only conceded two in the same period of time.
And
Manchester United, down in sixth, are 14 points behind the
leaders but
only five ahead of Everton.
A win over the Red Devils will pull us to within a point of second in the table, although would give Premier League
leaders Manchester City the chance to pull 11 points clear of their nearest rivals with
only 15 matches completed.
This season,
Manchester City have
only played four matches, to United's five, sitting a point behind them in fourth place, with United in second, a point behind
leaders Newcastle United.
Unbeaten in the league and lying in 3 rd,
only 2 points behind
leaders Manchester City, Everton seem to have found a winning formula.
Mourinho has close to a fully - fit squad - Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Eric Bailly are the
only absentees - and is pleased they are fighting on despite trailing
leaders Manchester City by 12 points.
Arsenal have created more chances than any other team in the Premier League this season but have
only managed to convert 13 per cent of them, while both United and
leaders Manchester City boast a 23 per cent conversion rate.
They have
only lost once at home so far this season in 10 Premier League games, and they have
only conceded four goals in those games something they lead with
only the league
leaders Manchester City.
They are currently
only 3 points behind League
leaders Chelsea with some tricky fixtures coming their way, with Stoke City at home, Everton away and then
Manchester City at the Etihad.
Manchester United were completely outplayed when they paid Anfield a visit last month, so who's to say the Reds won't claim another scalp − thee scalp right now − in
leaders Manchester City, whom are the
only Premier League team still to taste defeat.
The visitors are in imperious form this season and are the
only side left in Europe's top five leagues not to have lost a league match, while the Blues are fourth in the Premier League with a 19 - point gap between them and league
leaders Manchester City.
After the Villa game no one gave us a prayer regarding the title, but we finished on 79 points and were
only 7 points off the
leaders,
Manchester City.
Despite striving yet again to throw away a golden opportunity by squandering a 3 - 1 lead away at arch rivals Tottenham in midweek, 24 hours after league
leaders Manchester United could
only manage a 0 - 0 draw with Newcastle at St James» Park, Arsenal still find themselves in this title race, not that anyone knows how.
Manchester City, who are already through from Group F, travel to Shakhtar Donetsk — who
only need a draw from the game in Khakiv to join the Premier League
leaders in the knockout phase.
Meanwhile Sunderland will probably wish their meeting with league
leaders Manchester United had fallen foul to the weather, as the Black Cats somehow avoid a hammering at Old Trafford despite conceding so many chances but
only two goals.
Modric and Gareth Bale, who Harry Redknapp says
only the richest clubs in the world can afford, have been the driving forces in taking Spurs to just seven points behind league
leaders Manchester City.
Jürgen Klopp's side has
only lost three league games all season, a record
only bettered by
leaders Manchester City.
There is
only one female council
leader in Greater
Manchester.
Of the 57 Liberal Democrat MPs,
only two refused to support the Conservative Coalition agreement, with former
leader Charles Kennedy and
Manchester Withington MP John Leech both rebelling.