{"id":321420,"date":"2026-04-20T00:51:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=321420"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:21:52","slug":"wayne-rooney-makes-shock-premier-league-title-claim-after-man-city-beat-arsenal-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/wayne-rooney-makes-shock-premier-league-title-claim-after-man-city-beat-arsenal-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney makes shock Premier League title claim after Man City beat Arsenal | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wayne Rooney won’t rule Arsenal out of the title race (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wayne Rooney still believes Arsenal are favourites to win the Premier League title despite Sunday\u2019s damaging defeat against Manchester City. <\/p>\n

The Gunners gave nearly as good as they got on the Etihad Stadium but were ultimately left to rue missed possibilities and their failure to stop Erling Haaland sweeping home the winning goal within the sixty fifth minute. <\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola\u2019s side will now leapfrog long-time leaders Arsenal in the event that they beat Burnley at Turf Moor in midweek courtesy of their superior goal difference. <\/p>\n

With five games to go, nonetheless, Rooney feels it is much too premature to put in writing off Mikel Arteta\u2019s men, even when the bookies\u2019 now have City within the driving seat.<\/p>\n

\u2018This title race is just not over yet, I still feel like there are some more twists and turns to come back,\u2019 said the previous Manchester United striker. <\/p>\n

\u2018It’s is clearly going to be tight but City have gotten yet one more game to attempt to win, so I still have Arsenal down as slight favourites.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve been in this case myself, where you could win all of your games for the title. You take a look at your games and you’re thinking that well we should always win this one, or that one, nevertheless it never pans out that way.<\/p>\n

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Pep Guardiola and Man City are actually favourites to win the Premier League title (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018From now until the top of the season it’s just going to be right down to which team keeps their composure the very best \u2013 that\u2019s who will win it.\u2019<\/p>\n

While he stopped in need of agreeing with Rooney, Guardiola was keen to sound a note of caution and remind his ow players that winning the league from this position might be removed from a forgone conclusion. <\/p>\n

He said: \u2018I don\u2019t know, I didn\u2019t think Arsenal were in bad momentum. Within the Carabao Cup we were higher. <\/p>\n

\u2018Today we were really good. They got here here after the defeat with hunger and we won. They’re are so competitive, we all know that. But at the identical time, we’re too.<\/p>\n

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Erling Haaland scored the winning goal against Arsenal (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018The table speaks for itself. They’ve been the very best. Congratulations to the blokes, but don\u2019t lose the main focus. <\/p>\n

\u2018Wednesday is our game in hand and we might be there if we win. That\u2019s what now we have to do. Doing it would be so difficult because Everton or Brentford, or Aston Villa, Crystal Palace. <\/p>\n

\u2018The games that now we have. Bournemouth away. Last week they won in Emirates and Newcastle. It’s going to be harder.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta, meanwhile, gave an emphatic answer when asked if he still retained hope his side can reverse their current slide and end their campaign with a bang.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal have let an enormous lead slip within the Premier League title race (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He said: \u2018100%. I said to the boys now we have to look within the mirror and the team we played within the moment, the history they’ve, to come back back from a goal down. <\/p>\n

\u2018There\u2019s lots of things to take. The difference was in each boxes that\u2019s needless to say.<\/p>\n

\u2018At the top it\u2019s the result we got here to overcome. We did lots of things right to take the sport where we wanted. <\/p>\n

\u2018We had the very best possibilities in the sport but we didn\u2019t put them away and that\u2019s the fact.\u2019<\/p>\n

Arrow<\/title>\n<\/use><\/svg>MORE: Patrick Vieira \u2018disenchanted\u2019 Mikel Arteta substituted Arsenal star in Man City defeat<\/span><\/p>\n

Arrow<\/title>\n<\/use><\/svg>MORE: Mikel Arteta admits what Arsenal did unsuitable in crunch Manchester City loss<\/span><\/p>\n

Arrow<\/title>\n<\/use><\/svg>MORE: Erling Haaland sends message to Gabriel after Man City beat Arsenal<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wayne Rooney won’t rule Arsenal out of the title race (Picture: Getty) Wayne Rooney still believes Arsenal are favourites to win the Premier League title despite Sunday\u2019s damaging defeat against Manchester City. The Gunners gave nearly as good as they got on the Etihad Stadium but were ultimately left to rue missed possibilities and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[2605,1125,1055,6146,5479,622,1054,676,13813,3856,1148,9186],"class_list":["post-321420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-beat","tag-city","tag-claim","tag-football","tag-league","tag-man","tag-premier","tag-rooney","tag-shock","tag-title","tag-wayne"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321423,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321420\/revisions\/321423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}