Spurs dazzled at the Etihad Stadium, netting four past the current champion. This blow for Manchester City meant it squandered the chance to narrow the lead of table-toppers Liverpool, who were set to play Southampton on Sunday.
Instead, it has inadvertently boosted Chelsea, Arsenal, and Brighton's chances in the fierce battle for the top four spots. Post-match on Sky Sports, Neville hinted that it's time for Arne Slot's team to step up and seize the Premier League crown, issuing a succinct caution to the Reds.
"If you're Arsenal, if you're Liverpool, I'm thinking the two genuine teams that can win the title other than City, you must not get carried away but feel there are no excuses here now," the ex-Manchester United star commented on Sky Sports. "I'm looking more at Arsenal with that statement than Liverpool.
"At the start of the season, anyone looking at Slot coming in and has done what he's done would say: "I'm not quite sure that will happen". This was Arsenal's season if it wasn't going to be City's.
"The pressure is really on Arsenal to step up and go for it. They had a good win today. But for Liverpool to be sat at the top of the league, with that back five they have got and front players and options they have, they must be really fancying it.
"Big game next week (Liverpool host Manchester City at Anfield) and I know there is a long way to go. But it feels like if City were to win the title, it would be Pep Guardiola's greatest Premier League."
On Super Sunday, Neville didn't mince his words when criticising Guardiola's team, stating: "We've seen City lose the odd game here, but we've very rarely seen them outplayed in every department. That's what we're watching.
"They look well short. As short as I've seen them since Pep's first season. I've not seen them as bad as this, how they've been in the last few weeks. He (Guardiola) will have wanted that international break to come, thinking it would be a reset moment.
"But now here, it further entrenches the opinion this is a City side currently in decline. It seems madness, when you think about what they've achieved. They're easy to play against and teams are encouraged when playing them. The vulnerabilities are clear for everyone to see."
Liverpool.com says: Forget Arsenal: it is Liverpool that has the best chance of winning the title from here. For the Gunners to turn around a nine-point gap it would take the Reds to decline a lot and that buffer is what makes Slot's men the leading contender from here, even though it is inevitable that Manchester City will improve sooner rather than later.
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