Arsenal handed surprise boost in the race for the Premier League crown.
Arsenal were handed a very brutal loss against Newcastle on Saturday afternoon thanks to the solitary first half goal from Alexander Isak. The Swede headed Newcastle’s winning goal from a superb delivery from Anthony Gordon early in the first half to set the Magpies on their way to a huge win.
In what was a very poor performance, the abysmal defeat has left many others like myself fearing the worst for our title chances, especially given the points gap between us and the top two already. Nobody will blame us for not being confident of our chances given what we saw on display against the Magpies, we lost because of our poor performance and that now means that we’re winless in three games, winning just a single point from a possible nine. That is not the standard of an aspiring title winner come the end of May which is why our hopes are down at the moment.
With that said however, Arsenal seemingly got an early title boost from an unlikely source on Saturday. Man City and Liverpool, our title rivals and the top two were in action right after our game, we certainly weren’t expecting an upset from Bournemouth or Brighton respectively but that was what we got from the former after they beat City 2-1 at the Vitality Stadium. Liverpool could’ve dropped points as well but a quick fire double in the second half ensured they earned a 2-1 come from behind victory.
Man City losing was bittersweet considering we are still five points off them and seven off Liverpool, however in the grand scheme of things, we’ll be happy with them losing considering we could’ve been eight points behind the Citizens. Our chances are still hanging on a thread though, there is still a lot of work on our part to be done before we can even think of winning the title.
KENNETH BENJAMIN.
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Luckily
As I’ve said many times before,
A team that’s always one injury is one bad referee decision away from losing won’t win any titles…
Last season we were incredibly lucky to have no major injuries, and now the luck has ran out and you need debth.
Which we have always lacked under Arteta because he doesn’t trust the academy.
On a similar note, I find it incredibly amusing that we have spent 150m+ trying to solve our left back position, and Nuno Tavares has turned out to be the best left back in the world…
Genuinely hilarious
From the BBC website today:
“The only other clubs to recover a similarly sizeable gap as the one Arsenal must now overcome were Manchester United in 2002-03 and Manchester City in both 2013-14 and 2020-21, with each of those sides trailing by six points after 10 games.”
City losing yesterday doesn’t address that.
Like City losing is going to make a difference.
These half full glass type of fans crease me up.
One thing for sure this title race is wide open, have been saying it since one particular player got injured
Gunsmoke
It’s certainly wide open which rather makes a change tbh. It’s better than the league being a barely 2 horse race
It will be interesting to see what happens in the remaining ties over the weekend to determine the lie of the land
I do think that the red cards – not the injuries – have as good as scuppered our chances. These were self inflicted wounds and totally unacceptable. Injuries can happen to any team although we have had more than our fair share thus far. It’s City’s turn now and look how yesterday turned out.
I’m stunned 🤦♂️, there are still people on this forum who really think that Arsenal are still in the title race.
You can’t make this stuff up 😒