'Guardiola is messing around': Neville finally tips Arsenal to win Premier League

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Speaking on The Overlap: Fan Debate, Gary Neville said: “We were at the City game on Sunday and the team came through I thought ‘hmm’, for the first time I thought Arsenal could win the league.

“That’s not looking smart after the events when City lost, I thought ‘He [Guardiola] is messing around, he is tinkering far too much’.

"I don’t know why [Kevin] De Bruyne isn’t playing, I don’t know why [Ilkay] Gundogan hasn’t played, I don’t know why [Ruben] Dias isn’t back in at centre-back with [Aymeric] Laporte to make them solid.

“I saw the team and from my point of view, my prediction was City would catch Arsenal. I was less sure on Sunday afternoon than I had ever been. I was pretty certain two weeks ago.

"I was actually certain on Saturday afternoon, I thought ‘Right City will do it proper tomorrow, this will be a champion's performance. He will go with his best team, he won’t mess around’.

“But if he carries on like that, carries on doing what he is doing... Sometimes great managers of that ilk, I know Sir Alex [Ferguson] had it a little bit as well, they just like to do things a little bit differently.”

Arsenal are five points clear at the top of the table and garnered 50 points in the first 19 games of the season, putting them on course for a 100-point campaign.

Source: The Overlap: Fan Debate