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The Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson saw his team rise to the top of the Premiership again yesterday, just two points clear of Chelsea and Arsenal, and although Chelsea still have a game in hand, they also have to face United at Old Trafford during the run-in.

This has led the Scotsman to suggest that Arsenal will be the biggest danger to his fourth Premiership title in a row.

“We are back in the lead, but Chelsea have a game in hand,” Ferguson said. Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger won’t think that his Arsenal team are not worthy Champions if they lift the title, despite losing all four games against the other two challengers, Chelsea and Man Utd, and he thinks that the Premier League as a whole has improved considerably from last season.

“In the Premier League this season the top teams have lost more games, but that’s had no ­consequences in Europe.” Wenger said.

“We have not been weakened ­internationally and that means the Premier League has maybe become stronger.

“People say we have easier ­fixtures than Chelsea and United because they play each other. Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger was extremely pleased with the massive 5-0 win over Porto last night, but thinks that his Arsenal team need to continue to improve to get past all the great teams still left in the competition.

He said: “First of all, we are happy to be in the last eight. If you look back at the last five years, I think we were in the last eight a few times. It’s never easy to be in the top eight in Europe. The negative side of that is you only have good teams now. Read the full article here

The Arsenal reserve striker Gilles Sunu teamed up with Jay Emmanuel Thomas and Luke Freeman to score the winner in last nights reserve League match at Chelsea.The win puts Arsenal one point clear at the top of the Reserves South League table and is their third away win in a row.

Chelsea put out a strong team including Gael Kakuta, Nemanja Matic and Fabio Borini, and threatened the Arsenal goal a few times in the first half, but Luke Freeman broke the deadlock six minutes before half time, fed by Jay Emmanuel Thomas after a great run. Read the full article here

A report from todays News of the World claims that Robin Van Persie turned down big-money offers from Chelsea, Man City, Inter Milan and Juventus before deciding to renew his Arsenal contract last summer.

“It is good that four teams were really interested in me,” he said. “but I had to turn them down. It’s not as easy to leave Arsenal as you maybe think.

“Even if you want to leave, as a player, I don’t think it is easy because when you move to Arsenal you are led there by your heart.” Read the full article here

The Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti watched his team lose three points against Everton on Wednesday, while Arsenal won their hard-fought game against Liverpool to move to just six points behind the leaders.

Ancelotti admitted that Arsenal were back in the race for the title, and he thinks it could go down to the final games of the season.

“Things change in football quickly, so Arsenal had a very good result,” Ancelotti said.

“They can come back. Six points is not so much and they could come back and get the title.” Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger saw his team take the three points from a tactical and hard-fought match against Liverpool, and after seeing Chelsea and Man Utd both drop points on the same night, he believes that Arsenal has as much chance as anyone to still win the Premiership title.

“I think it was a highly tactical game against a Liverpool team that didn’t give us any space to play.” Wenger said. “We found it difficult to get our passing going because they were always in our way. We needed to be patient and not make a defensive mistake. They had one or two chances as well but in the end we got that goal. When you have the two results we had before the most important thing is to win the game. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has hit back at Michael Ballack’s suggestion that the Gunners were predictable and easy to beat. He says that Chelsea are just as predictable in that they try to get the ball to Drogba, but it was defensive slip-ups that stopped Arsenal preventing them from stopping the prolific Ivorian striker.

“”Every team is predictable,” Wenger said. “You know that Chelsea will play for Drogba. I believe you have to accept that we lost the games with defensive mistakes, not because of our predictability,” Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is not very happy with the way the media has been twisting his comments after matches, and using just a few words to make it look like he is saying bad things about his opponents.

He cites the Chelsea game, where he praised Chelsea’s play after the game, but the media focused on the words “we didn’t get a demonstration of football” and “We completely dominated Chelsea”.

Wenger said: “I would just like to say that I was full of compliments and praise for Chelsea after the game and I find it completely unfair from the press that you take one word of my press conference to turn it in a kind of probe every time.” Read the full article here

Theo Walcott made a rare start for Arsenal in the defeat at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, and believes that his team were better than Chelsea in all aspects except the two goals.

“We dominated the game, but Chelsea took their chances and you have got to be decisive,” Walcott said.

“We need to learn from that and then push on for the Liverpool game, because if we keep the ball like we did against Chelsea, but create more chances, we can kill anyone.

“However, everyone just remembers the results, and that is what we have to do – win these games and not lie down in the big matches.’ Read the full article here