Man City might never get a better chance to achieve the impossible after Arsenal performance

This win was primarily a message to the Premier League, that there is no team good enough to take the title away from Manchester City, but don't underestimate the effect it will have on the rest of Europe as well.

Pep Guardiola will continue to rile at talk of a treble, but who can stop this team? The title is surely sewn up after this statement. The FA Cup final poses obvious difficulties. In Europe? Real Madrid lost 4-2 to City Football Group club Girona on Tuesday. Twenty-four hours later they would have watched this masterclass through gritted teeth.

There is still plenty of work to be done to win the treble, but the question has to be whether City and Guardiola will ever get a better chance? They have only one injury in the squad, a settled system, an unstoppable striker and frightening momentum.

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If City are to win the treble then there are 11 games to go. Eleven games to scale these heights, maybe less if the title is done and dusted before the final. Make no mistake, this is achievable for City. They have never got this close before. They might never get a better chance.

Guardiola distanced himself from talk of the treble after the FA Cup semi-final win on Saturday. He said he was "not at all" excited, that it was "far, far away".

"How many times in this amazing country have trebles been done? How many years? How many teams?," he said. “It is one. Once. Our neighbours did it in how many centuries?"

Don't be surprised if in six-and-a-half weeks there are two teams have done the treble.

Back in November, before the World Cup had begun and when we could only speculate about how it would affect players, Guardiola suggested that we'd only get the answers to that question in