Mark Goldbridge: Jurgen Klopp knows the title is over for Liverpool: Arsenal must win the north London derby to stop the Manchester City 'giant'

Mark Goldbridge insists Arsenal must beat Tottenham to have any chance of beating Man City for the Premier League title.

The stakes could not be higher for This weekend's North London derby showdownas rivals prepare to fight with everything at stake.

The Gunners need three points on Sunday to keep the pressure on City, with the defending champions hot on their heels just one point in second place, but with a game in hand even, after their 4-0 destruction of Brighton.

Liverpool's chances seem to be over after their disastrous Defeat in the Merseyside derby against Everton – something Goldbridge not only agrees with but, as a devout manchester united fan, is ecstatic.

and he waits Arsenal can do business against Spurs on Sunday, when Mikel Arteta's team seeks to prevent Pep Guardiola's 'giant' team from being crowned champions again.

Liverpool are out of the title race. I think his fans would admit that and I think Jurgen Klopp he knows.

For Arsenal, it will be very difficult to chase Manchester City. When you look at City's win ratio in the last five games of the season over the last ten years, it is simply enormous. They are not going to lose two games to leave Liverpool again in.

This game for Arsenal will be what it was for Liverpool against Everton, it will be the culmination of your title hopes if you lose.

Arsenal have to go out and win to have any chance of preventing Manchester City from winning the title again this season, which would be six of the last seven seasons. They are the best team in the world. They are a giant.

But it's a north London derby and it's against Spurs, and as we saw in the Merseyside derby, form is lost.

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The Spurs' motivation will be twofold; Firstly, it's a North London derby, and secondly, they have the top four to play for themselves.

Spurs have a good team and it is surprisingly difficult to decide with such huge ramifications for both teams, because if Arsenal win and Aston Villa If they also win at the weekend, you could almost say that Spurs will only get fifth place, and if Arsenal lose, they will be out of the title race.

So we couldn't have a better game to watch on Sunday with higher stakes.

I thought it was a really good game at the Emirates Stadium and I think Tottenham played better than Arsenal, something Arteta admitted afterwards. It has all the ingredients to be a fantastic game and I can't really call it that.

I think after Everton beat Liverpool, I almost feel like Spurs could get something from Arsenal too.

The failure of Klopp's farewell to Liverpool

From Manchester United's point of view, it's fantastic: I don't want Liverpool to win the league!

But there is that love for football that kicks in and, I don't care what any United fan says, Jurgen Klopp is a nice, passionate guy and I'm very surprised it turned out like this.

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I didn't think we'd be at the end of April saying they were out of the FA Cup, they weren't going to the Europa League final and now they'd be out of the title race.

Maybe there is a little pressure when you know the manager is going – It's not necessarily a good thing.

We saw this with Mr Alex Ferguson and Manchester United when they said they were going to retire ten years earlier than they actually did, we started getting bad results when you thought you would get a boost and camaraderie.

Surprise with Liverpool. You look at their results against Crystal Palace and Everton and wonder if it has all had an effect on the players, because they have come up short.