{"id":46,"date":"2026-04-16T21:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:38:30","slug":"premier-league-title-race-could-man-city-and-arsenal-go-to-a-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Premier League title race: Could Man City and Arsenal go to a play-off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Arsenal and City are equal on all of the above, then the title will be decided by the winner of a play-off match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it can <i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">only<\/i> go to this decider should Sunday&#8217;s match end 1-1, the same result as at Emirates Stadium in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It would leave the two sides with the same head-to-head record, as well as away goals scored in the matches against each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tie-breakers as they currently stand are extremely tight too &#8211; Arsenal are three goals better off on goal difference than City, while the Blues have scored 63 goals to their opponents&#8217; 62.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A play-off match would take place at a neutral ground, with the format and timing to be determined by the Premier League board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the 1995-96 season, Ferguson&#8217;s Manchester United and Kevin Keegan&#8217;s Newcastle had been going toe-to-toe for the title and the first batch of tickets had actually been printed in case a play-off match was required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One ticket showed<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span> the match would have taken place at Wembley Stadium during a midweek, with a kick-off time of 19:30 BST, but United went on to win the title by four points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Arsenal and City are equal on all of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}