Manchester City and Arsenal meet in a crucial Premier League title clash on Wednesday and Pep Guardiola praised his former pupil Mikel Arteta in his pre-match press conference.

Manchester City – Arsenal, a match that could decide the Premier League title

Arsenal and Manchester City are currently separated by just 5 points in the Premier League and the reigning champions have two games in hand.

Mikel Arteta was Pep Guardiola’s second-in-command at Manchester City and his successes have impressed the German coach, who heaped praise on the Spaniard in his pre-match press conference.

Pep Guardiola stressed that from his point of view the match is not decisive.

“This is a very important match, but it is not decisive, there will be many difficult matches for both teams. However, we cannot deny the importance of this game.

I expect everything from Arsenal. When you play against a team like that, they control absolutely everything. Arsenal have been incredible under Arsene Wenger as well, they’ve had great ball control, they’ve had great quality players and I think Mikel has taken the club to a new level.

“Arsenal are aggressive, they went to Liverpool, the best team in transition in years, and they were better.” – sent by Pep Guardiola.

Arsenal have not won any of their last three Premier League games, drawing only with Liverpool, West Ham and Southampton. At “Anfield Road” and “London Stadium” the “gunners” each time had a score of 2:0.

Premier League standings

1 Arsenal 75p

2 Manchester City 70p

3 Newcastle 59p

4 Manchester United 59p

5 Tottenham 53p

6 Aston Villa 51p

7 Liverpool 50p