Manchester City beat Newcastle United at the Etihad Stadium to close the gap to Premier League leaders Arsenal down to two points. Nico O’Reilly’s brace, either side of a Lewis Hall equaliser, was enough for the Blues to earn a vital three points in the Premier League title race.

Manchester City has a chance to keep the pressure on Arsenal at the top of the English Premier League with a Saturday matchup against 10th place Newcastle United. The match is scheduled to start at 3 p.

The CItyzens are desperate to capitalise on Arsenal’s midweek slip-up.

Pep Guardiola has confirmed the reasoning behind his half-time replacement of Ruben Dias during Saturday night’s crucial 2-1 win over Newcastle United.The decision to withdraw a member of the

Nico O'Reilly continued his incredible season by powering Manchester City to a 2-1 win over Newcastle which cut the gap with Arsenal in the Premier League title race to just two points. O'Reilly scored a brilliant opener which was soon cancelled out by Lewis Hall.

Nico O'Reilly's first-half brace gave Manchester City a hard-fought 2-1 win over Newcastle United and cut Arsenal's advantage at the top of the Premier League to two points.

David: Far from convincing after a very good first half. Their second-half performance, for the umpteenth time this season, was awful, allowing the opposition to pressurise and put City on the back foot, passes going astray and, yet again, no service to Haaland, who ran himself into the ground once more.

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