Arsenal's ride to Tottenham on Sunday turned into referred to as off despite the Gunners reportedly missing simply one player due to coronavirus, taking the overall number of fits postponed over the past two months to 21.
At the bottom of the table, Norwich's win over Everton leaves the lowest four separated by way of just three points and proved the very last straw for Rafael Benitez's sad time at Goodison Park because the Spaniard changed into sacked on Sunday.
Defeat at the Etihad realistically ended Chelsea's name aspirations with the European champions now thirteen factors adrift of the leaders and searching over their shoulder simply to make sure they quit the season inside the pinnacle four.
For the primary time for the reason that taking fee of the Blues almost a 12 months in the past, Thomas Tuchel desires to locate solutions to a bad run of simply one win in six league video games that has allowed City to surge out of sight.
The German's warning was punished with the aid of one moment of brilliance with the aid of Kevin De Bruyne to win the game 20 mins from time, however Tuchel responded angrily to pointers a extra offensive attitude might have provided his forward gamers with higher service.
Romelu Lukaku bore the brunt of the complaint from his supervisor, suggesting the rift among the 2 after the Belgian expressed his disappointment at Stamford Bridge to Italian media final month has no longer been forgotten.
Tuchel has guided Chelsea to 3 consecutive cup finals, however Lukaku isn't the first forward to war in his gadget with Timo Werner, Kai Havertz, Christian Pulisic and Hakim Ziyech all inconsistent.
Defeat for West Ham in opposition to Leeds and Manchester United throwing away a 2-0 cause draw 2-2 at Aston Villa meant it was a very good week for each Arsenal and Tottenham's hopes of a top-4 end notwithstanding now not kicking a ball.
Spurs were livid after the north London derby become referred to as off with just over 24 hours observe because of the range of accidents within the Gunners' squad on top of lacking 4 players at the Africa Cup of Nations.
