Man City key title race advantage over Arsenal emerges as lead down to two points

An odd game between Man City and Newcastle was rather neatly summed up by the fact the winning goal came from Nico O’Reilly and Erling Haaland combining with a delicious dinked cross and towering header sent back across the keeper and into the bottom corner in the classic number nine’s style, but with O’Reilly doing the heading and Haaland the dinking.

We are firmly entering ‘how many not how’ stage of the Premier League points-winning process, so City won’t mind too much at this point that a slightly chaotic second half just about went their way.

They cut Arsenal’s lead at the top to two and kept the destination of this year’s Premier League title in their own hands ahead of tomorrow’s narrative-heavy and eagerly…