I disagree that the title was lost during the game at the Etihad. Far from it, we were still very much in command of the title race despite that loss.
We lost because we drew at Goodison Park and Old Trafford, while City didn't. Those were high-profile away derbies where we felt that taking a single point would be enough, as opposed to the points dropped against West Ham and Leicester.
Those string of consecutive draws came at a vital period in the title race and handed City the belief that they will retain the title. Guardiola was almost prepared to concede the title after they lost at Newcastle, but we allowed them to claw back the points.
Sorry, but this seems a pointless excerise to me, all ifs, buts and maybes and taking certain games into isolation to see where it went 'wrong'
In my opinion 97 points means we 'lost' nothing along the way. We took 4 points from Everton (our only derby of the season!) and 4 points from Man Utd, both more than acceptable returns.
City can point to the games they lost, all 4 of them of their drawn games and say if only this or that happened, they missed a pen at Anfield, that alone in the context of the Title race was an opportunity missed far bigger than we can point to.
97 points is incredible, to lose once all season with the least goals conceded, there is no way on Earth we lost, conceded or threw anything anything away with an achievement like that. I don't have a single regret how we played our part in the Title race, City just happened to pip us by one point with a run of wins at the end that nobody expected.
That run was out of our hands, frustratingly we where powerless to stop it, but we took the chase to the last day which took some doing.Overall, we could simply do no more, than amass a record number of points, that cruelly just wasn't enough this time round.