GUNNERS FANS CAN DARE DREAM AGAIN

TWENTY years after they won their last English Premiership title, Arsenal fans are daring to dream again.

The Gunners, Manchester City and Liverpool are running neck-to-neck in one of the greatest races for the championship in recent memory.

The Arsenal fans have become daring and a photo-shopped image on social media this week, suggesting their club will end up as champions, showed just that.

According to a super computer, Liverpool’s chances of winning the title are still a healthy 35.6%, although that is slightly down from the 36.1% they had going into Matchday 27.

And that’s because defending champions and Opta supercomputer favourites, Manchester City, eventually prevailed in the Manchester Derby.

City’s Premier League title probability looks healthy now — rising 0.8% to 51.4% overall after this win — but just before Foden’s 56th-minute equaliser, they’d gone from favourites for the title pre-match (47.6%) to second favourites (40.5%) behind Liverpool (44.7%).

If anything could sum up the magnitude of the task that Arsenal face, they crushed Sheffield United 6-0 and yet their probability of winning the title dropped by 0.3%.

The Gunners blew away the Blades in the first half and were five goals ahead by the 39th minute — that’s the earliest an away side has had a fivegoal margin in Premier League history.

Despite their electric form — they’re the first side in English league football to win three successive away games by 5+ goals — if they are to win the title they need both Liverpool and Manchester City to slip up, something that gets increasingly unlikely the closer we get to the end of the season.

With all three sides hitting excellent form, it looks almost certain that the title race is going to be decided by the games between them. That starts next weekend as Manchester City visit Anfield. — Sports Reporter/OptaJoe