“It’s not a decisive game as after this we have to play 21 games more”, said Pellegrini, making the situation much lighter.
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Arsenal have no new injury concerns following their win over Aston Villa last time round.
City will, however, be without Vincent Kompany, Fernando and Samir Nasri.
Arsenal have lost just one of their 18 Premier League home games against Manchester City (W11 D6 L1), but have won just one of the last six (W1 D4 L1).
Arsenal will face defending champions Barcelona – who claimed the Club World Cup on Sunday – in the last 16 of the Champions League, and Ozil feels it will be a great test.
The Gunners are right in the title picture and have the chance to dent the challenge of Manuel Pellegrini’s City side when they visit the Emirates Stadium in the last Premier League fixture this side of Christmas.
Three of Arsenal’s next four Premier League games are at home, and the Gunners are unbeaten in their last six league games at the Emirates since the opening-day defeat to West Ham United. If Arsenal win, they’ll be two points behind Leicester and seven ahead of Spurs, leaving City feeling the heat.
Though he’s already got 7 league strikes for the campaign (very respectable, considering his limited game time), Aguero has struggled away from his own patch.
Tottenham Hotspur took advantage of United’s woes to move into fourth place thanks to a 2-0 win at Southampton while Crystal Palace remain sixth after a 2-1 win at Stoke City.
Arsenal sit second in the table, five points behind leaders Leicester City and a point above third placed Manchester City. These teams are the two favorites for the title and only one point now separates them.
The study also revealed that Americans are the Premier League’s biggest foreign fan base buying resale tickets, and the USA is the only nation to appear in the top three nationalities of overseas supporters that buy tickets for each top flight club.
“It’s impossible just to think there are two teams involved in the title race”.
“We watched him but you miss obvious players”.
He wrote in his column for the Sun: “It’s lucky for Arsenal that Laurent Koscielny has been more or less available every week because he is probably their only outfield player who is irreplaceable”.
“(Smaller teams) can say no because they speculate on the inflation that will happen.
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“The injuries to the Arsenal key players worry me a lot and that is basically where I see Manchester City having an upper hand”.
