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  "textContent": "Man Utd and England legend Wayne Rooney (Picture: Getty)\n\nWayne Rooney has revealed his prediction for the ‘Premier League title decider’ between Manchester City and Arsenal next weekend.\n\nThe Gunners, chasing a first league title since 2004, missed the chance to go 12 points clear at the top of the table on Saturday, losing 2-1 at home to Bournemouth.\n\nThat was Arsenal’s third defeat in four games following a Carabao Cup final loss to Man City and a shock FA Cup exit at the hands of Championship side Southampton.\n\nA disappointing weekend for Arsenal got even worse on Sunday as Man City thumped Chelsea 3-0 to move to within just six points of Mikel Arteta’s side.\n\nWith a game in hand and a home match against Arsenal next Sunday, the Premier League title is essentially in Manchester City’s hands.\n\nManchester United and England legend Rooney views that fixture as a ‘title decider’ and has backed Man City to beat Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium.\n\nAsked whether the game was indeed a title decider, Rooney said on his BBC podcast: ‘Yeah, I think it will be.\n\n##  Get personalised football updates every day\n\nSign up to our daily football newsletter and choose your team to get the latest news, rumours and more about your favourite team.\n\nManchester City bet Chelsea at Stamford Bridge (Picture: Getty)\n\n‘It’s an important game and if City win if I make them favourites to win the league and if Arsenal win it it’s there’s for the taking. It probably is a title decider.’\n\nPressed for his prediction, Rooney added: ‘I think Man City will win, 1-0. It still won’t be done if that happens but it slightly gives City the advantage.’\n\nArsenal suffered back-to-back defeats for the first time this season either side of the international break.\n\nArsenal are stuttering under Mikel Arteta (Picture: Getty)\n\nThey appeared to stop the rot in the Champions League, beating Sporting 1-0 in the first leg of their quarter-final tie, but suffered another blow against Bournemouth.\n\nAsked why he believes Arsenal are struggling to get over the line, Rooney said: ‘I think it’s just the pressure of trying to win the Premier League.\n\n‘We know how important experience is at this stage of the season and they’ve got quite a few players who haven’t won titles so that pressure does build up.\n\n‘You have a couple of bad results and you start searching for answers and now they’re struggling to get out of it.\n\n‘I still think Arsenal have a great chance to win the league but they’re starting to show signs that they’re cracking a little bit and Man City know how to win league titles.’\n\nGabriel Martinelli scored an injury-time equaliser as Arsenal drew 1-1 with Manchester City in the reverse fixture at the Emirates Stadium back in September.\n\nBut the Carabao Cup final between the Premier League title rivals ended up being a one-sided affair, with Man City winning 2-0 to win the first trophy of the season.\n\n**For more stories like this, check our sport page**.\n\n**Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on**Facebook,** Twitter and Instagram**.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Man City or Arsenal? Wayne Rooney makes prediction for Premier League ‘title decider’"
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