{"id":26521,"date":"2025-11-11T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/theres-one-reason-why-paul-scholes-chooses-man-city-as-favorites-over-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:41:39","slug":"theres-one-reason-why-paul-scholes-chooses-man-city-as-favorites-over-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/theres-one-reason-why-paul-scholes-chooses-man-city-as-favorites-over-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s one reason why Paul Scholes chooses Man City as favorites over Arsenal."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/theres-one-reason-why-paul-scholes-chooses-man-city-as-favorites-over-arsenal\/#Man_City_are_on_a_roll_at_the_right_time\" >Man City are on a roll at the right time<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/theres-one-reason-why-paul-scholes-chooses-man-city-as-favorites-over-arsenal\/#Arsenal_will_look_to_City_chasing_them\" >Arsenal will look to City chasing them<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manchester United legend Paul Scholes believes Manchester City are still the team to beat for this season&#8217;s Premier League title, despite Arsenal currently leading the league with four points.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Speaking on The Good, The Bad &#038; The Football podcast, Scholes explained that City&#8217;s championship experience and recent form give them a decisive advantage against Mikel Arteta&#8217;s young and ambitious Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Scholes&#8217; comments come after an eventful weekend that saw him update his title picture. Arsenal missed a chance to extend their advantage at the top of the mountain with a disappointing 2-2 draw at Sunderland on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Man_City_are_on_a_roll_at_the_right_time\"><\/span>Man City are on a roll at the right time<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Manchester City, meanwhile, produced their most dominant performance of the season with a 3-0 victory over Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The result not only reduced the gap to four points but also sent a message to their rivals that Josep Guardiola&#8217;s side are back on form.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t too impressed with City, but yesterday (against Liverpool) for the first time I thought they were going to be a challenger.&#8221;<\/em> Scholes said on the podcast &#8216;The Good, The Bad &#038; The Football&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think they are still slightly better favorites than Arsenal because of what they have done so far.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We know we are four points behind Arsenal, but they have experience and Arsenal don&#8217;t. We need to put them (City) a little ahead of them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Arsenal_will_look_to_City_chasing_them\"><\/span>Arsenal will look to City chasing them<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arsenal&#8217;s Declan Rice (Photo: Alex Livesey\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>City&#8217;s performance against Liverpool strengthened their pedigree as back-to-back champions.<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland continued his fine form with his 14th league goal of the season, while Jeremy Doku threatened the Liverpool defense from the left.<\/p>\n<p>For Arsenal, the draw with Sunderland raised fresh concerns about their ability to maintain consistency under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Despite good performances from Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice, defensive lapses once again proved costly, mirroring the Gunners&#8217; struggles in the title race last season.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Man City announce price tag for Vinicius Junior after contract talks with Real Madrid break down <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United legend Paul Scholes believes Manchester City are still the team to beat for this season&#8217;s Premier League title, despite Arsenal currently leading the league with four points.Speaking on The Good, The Bad &#038; The Football podcast, Scholes explained that City&#8217;s championship experience and recent form give them a decisive advantage against Mikel Arteta&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-26521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}