{"id":13185,"date":"2026-04-17T08:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:26:24","slug":"premier-league-title-race-could-man-city-and-arsenal-go-to-a-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13185","title":{"rendered":"Premier League title race: Could Man City and Arsenal go to a play-off?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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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

However, it can only<\/i> go to this decider should Sunday’s match end 1-1, the same result as at Emirates Stadium in September.<\/p>\n

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

The tie-breakers as they currently stand are extremely tight too – Arsenal are three goals better off on goal difference than City, while the Blues have scored 63 goals to their opponents’ 62.<\/p>\n

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

During the 1995-96 season, Ferguson’s Manchester United and Kevin Keegan’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

One ticket showed, external<\/span><\/a> 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


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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. However, it can only go to this decider should Sunday’s match end 1-1, the same result as at Emirates Stadium in September. It would leave the two sides with the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}