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Our newsman Jamie Jackson has been speaking to Manchester City’s goalkeeper:

Ahead of Manchester City’s travel to Chelsea, Gianluigi Donnarumma is alert of nan situation that whitethorn await astatine Stamford Bridge. “It’s ever going to beryllium a analyzable game,” he said. “It will beryllium a difficult because going location to play is ne'er easy. We dream to get a awesome consequence because it’s very important for america for nan title race.”

Arsenal’s conclusion by Bournemouth dented nan Gunners’ title quest, pinch City capable to move wrong 3 points pinch a crippled successful manus by beating them astatine location adjacent Sunday if they triumph coming astatine Stamford Bridge. “The destiny [of nan title] is nary longer successful our hands, but we will effort to bent connected until nan extremity and put unit connected them. These 2 games for america are important,” said nan Italian.

On moving nether Pep Guardiola, Donnnarumma added: “I deliberation until you unrecorded it, you will ne'er understand. Until you acquisition him, you can’t understand nan value he has and nan effect he has connected a team. Sometimes you are shocked, you are enchanted, sometimes to perceive him speak, to hole a crippled tactically. I americium very fortunate successful my profession to beryllium coached by him.”

Jumping for joy: Gianluigi Donnarumma of Manchester City. Photograph: Dave Thompson/AP

Arsenal: There’s only 1 spot to commencement erstwhile it comes to reacting to yesterday’s action and that’s astatine nan Emirates. After a lacklustre commencement it looked for illustration nan Gunners would find a measurement to triumph erstwhile Viktor Gyökeres levelled from nan punishment spot, aft Junior Kroupi’s early strike, but Arsenal remained level and lacking successful ideas. It was a good extremity from Alex Scott that settled nan crippled (how galore suitors will nan English midfielder person this summer, by nan way?) pinch Arteta describing it arsenic “a large punch to nan face” and a “painful day”.

“There’s nary grey areas,” he said. “We request to beryllium very, very, very beardown and wished to attack it successful a different measurement than we’ve done today, particularly erstwhile nan crippled wasn’t going our way. There’s a lot, a lot, a batch connected our sheet to look astatine ourselves.”

Preamble

Morning each and invited to Sunday’s matchday unrecorded – and what a Sunday it could beryllium successful nan Premier League, pinch imaginable consequences for nan relegation fight, nan conflict for Champions League qualification and nan title race. Oh, and immoderate Crystal Palace v Newcastle means. After Arsenal’s catastrophe astatine location to Bournemouth, tin Manchester City capitalise pinch a triumph astatine Chelsea? Can Nottingham Forest and Tottenham respond to West Ham’s thumping triumph connected Friday night? And do Aston Villa person thing near successful nan vessel to revive their apical 5 ambitions?

As always, we’ll beryllium bringing you each nan guidance from Saturday and buildup to today’s fixtures. Feel free to driblet america an email pinch your thoughts connected nan play truthful far, aliases predictions of what’s to come.

Let’s get consecutive into it, shall we? I’ll statesman by plugging this Paul MacInnes portion from nan Emirates yesterday, wherever galore of Arsenal’s flaws were exposed.