Recently founded Bromance amongst title rivals Manchester City & Liverpool was reignited as fellow title contenders Chelsea fell short in a series of games.

Chelsea, whom had been occupying the top spot for the longest of times, was seen drop to third as the currently in-form West Ham United beat them by three goals to two.

With Man City and Liverpool playing within the same day, celebrations from the latter were in order as they both had the chance to go top. Kicking off their match at 17:00UK time, Liverpool needed a last-gasp goal from none other than Divock Origi to momentarily go top.

Following their scrappy 1-0 win against Wolves, Liverpool then shifted their focus to Man City’s game up against Watford. In order to remain atop, Liverpool needed Man City to either lose or draw against the Hornets. With their eyes locked on the prize, Man City gave Watford a 3-1 thumping, thus crushing Liverpool’s hopes of remaining top.

As Matchday 16 neared, the title race between the three clubs was still on, and it was to remain like that as the three clubs won their respective matches in a rather peculiar way, if one was to say. During Matchday 16, Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, and Manchester United, all won their games by a 1-goal margin. (Arsenal were the only team from the big six to win by a score higher than one.)

All playing against mid-table/bottom-table clubs, one had to wonder where the aforementioned teams left their goalscoring boots because nothing seemed to work for them, and they all had to rely on penalties to win their games.

The events that were to follow though were classic Manchester City. Following their scrappy win against Wolves, The Citizens relinquished their goalscoring thirst with a 7-0 thumping of Leeds United. Liverpool too proved that their 1-0 win against Steven Gerrard’s Aston Villa wasn’t a ruse as they comfortably won 3-1 against relegation-threatened Newcastle United.

Chelsea on the other hand continued to falter down as they drew against injury-ravaged Everton. The West Londoners drew first blood in the 70^th minute as they seemed the favourites to win the game either way. Their sloppy defence was to disappoint them yet again though as they failed to defend 19-year-old Jarrad Braithwaite’s header from a freekick.

During matchday 18, City extended their lead atop with a 4-0 win against Newcastle. Chelsea and Liverpool were both to be held as they both respectively drew against their opponents. With Liverpool’s next game due to be postponed because of the Covid-19 outbreak in the EPL, City did not hold back in extending the gap. In a match that can arguably be called a Premier League classic, Manchester City thumped Leicester City 6-3 on boxing day.  

With December coming to an end and Liverpool dropping points yet again against Leicester, City are considered to be on course of running away with the title, but could either one of Liverpool and Chelsea catch up to them and snatch it from their arms?