Manchester City are back to their best performances and their biggest competitor in this season Liverpool started to show problems. Arsenal is another competitor but I consider them as less experienced than Liverpool and probably weaker in a long competition too.
Manchester City's performance has indeed improved greatly after the recovery of their mainstay player Kevin De Brune, but I don't see the opposite happening to Liverpool.
Liverpool's defeat against Arsenal last weekend is not a sign that Liverpool's performance has declined, I don't think so and the defeat is very natural because Arsnel is also a quite strong team this season.
Liverpool with their problems in defense system that was seriously exploited by Arsenal in a latest match, will struggle to maintain their competitiveness and race against Manchester City. The title race starts to be skewed on Manchester City after a Liverpool defeat under Arsenal.
Before the match against Arsenal, Liverpool's performance was fine, so don't draw any conclusions about the results of this match.
Competition for the Premier League trophy is always fierce and that is also the case this season.
Meeting Everton at this moment is good chance for Manchester City to win and at least temporarily take over a first position from Liverpool. When Manchester City can stay at a first position, they will create pressure back to Liverpool.
With the strength that Manchester City has, they should have no difficulty facing Everton and of course their big motivation is to take over the top of the Premier League standings from Liverpool, making their winning percentage very high.