The 'diabolical' prediction only Owen saw coming: "City will struggle to finish in the top four this season"

Manchester Metropolis’s debacle has caught everybody on the again foot. Effectively, not everybody…

The size of the disaster was troublesome to foresee:they’ve 9 defeats and two attracts of their final 12 video games.Nevertheless, Michael Owensaw ‘cracks’ within the ‘sky blue’ challenge… earlier than the season started. Particularly, on August 16.

“Manchester Metropolis will wrestle to complete within the high 4 this season,” predicted the previous Actual Madrid and Liverpool participant. A premonition that has gone viral after Owen retweeted it by including a ‘playful’ face.

“Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis can be just about in everybody’s high 4 predictions,” the previous footballer advised Football365.

“I believe this 12 months Metropolis might stumble”

“I’ll go for Arsenal first, Liverpool second, Aston Villa third and Manchester Metropolis fourth,” Owen continuedbefore explaining his prediction intimately.

I’ll go for Arsenal first, Liverpool second, Aston Villa third and Manchester Metropolis fourth.

Michael Owen

“The title is in Manchester Metropolis’s palms, however I believe this 12 months they could stumble. They’ve stepped up once they have wanted to and final 12 months that they had an unimaginable run, however sooner or later they are going to fall quick,” mentioned the 2001 Ballon d’Or winner.

“Plus, they have an investigation hanging over them and Pep Guardiola shouldn’t be going to be there without end,” added Owen, who sees Metropolis sink to seventh place within the Premier League, 12 factors behind Liverpool, who’ve a sport in hand. “This may very well be his final season.”