Arsenal winning the League is possible but a near perfect record is required till the season ends.
Part of the reasons why we have been written off by most football pundits, fans of other clubs and indeed our own ourselves is simply because of how harder the requirements have become for us to win the League. The points gap is an obvious reason for this even though City lost as well right after us.
Five points off them and seven off Liverpool means that we’ve left ourselves with a huge mountain to climb in the title race, we must climb this mountain graciously however with an almost flawless record needed from now to the end of the season to potentially be champions come the end of May.
Against Liverpool and especially Man City, we’ll be coming up against perfection, so perfect that only an even better run from us will see us get the better of them both which might just be too much to ask from a team playing like this currently. A few years ago, when one of Chelsea’s former manager Antonio Conte was asked to name the maximum number of losses a title winning side must have on average, he said it was “four.”
That was coming from a manager that has won it before so there might be some logic behind it considering that last season Man City lost 3 and Liverpool lost 4 games. If we’re judging that to be the case then we can only lose a maximum of two games in the remaining 28 to have a very good chance of winning it.
That run would be absolutely incredible, which is the task that is facing us if we want to be crowned Premier League champions. We’ve put ourselves in this problem and only ourselves can get us out, but oh my! It will be difficult.
KENNETH BENJAMIN.
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Man City lost yesterday, so we could still catch them up
I don’t think Liverpool will be as consistent as last season’s Man City
@Gai, my worry isn’t really Liverpool but City and PepG who seem to have mastered the art of winning Epl. I am also concerned about the level of competiion of other teams. The longer Arsenal wait to go on a winning run, the motivation of the team begins to decline. I will be able to speak about our chances at Epl after Chelsea match.
Difficult. and difficult
This season has been a complete disaster due to Arteta and the way we have approached games. The players look lost.
Arteta just seems to have gone back to the boring feckless football we played when he first joined in 2019. Defensive and hardly any bite.
This was the season to go out and seriously go for the Title and CL. But we just seem to have started the season all confused and clueless. If he does not challenge for the Title or CL this season I am done with him. No more leeway for him. He should be doing better than this after all the time he has been afforded.
The football looks clueless. I just can’t.
Sort it out.
No, all hope has not gone but Arsenal really can’t afford more slip ups. One point from nine in the EPL recently is obviously not the stuff of title contenders, let alone winners.
I still think City will be there or thereabouts in May although, clearly, they’re not performing well currently. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Liverpool sustained their challenge to the end of the season. There may be (yet) another contender by then. Who knows?
It’s too soon to say no, but borderline to think we can retrieve the lost points.
Although City haven’t looked convincing at times, they look well placed but will they be as strong to finish top this season? I’m not sure on that or that Liverpool can maintain their league position either aa overall the league is much more open this year.
Regardless of what other people think, I didn’t have a problem with the Arsenal performance against Liverpool. It’s also been largely forgotten that we started the season well. Why should that not continue when we have the team more settled again?
It’s easy to forget the immediate injury to Merino or the relative newness of Timber as well as the injury to Califiori who was beginning to settle nicely.
The red cards in close succession have scuppered us tbh. All important players missing for whole games and then reducing the effectiveness of the team when down to 10 men. Our results prove that.
I also think players haven’t been fully fit and break down again Timber and White fall in this category and we are still missing Odegaard after 2 months. There has been an enormous amount of disruption which hasn’t exactly helped.
Liverpool and Man City will slip up enough times its up to us to capitalize on. It’s up to the team not others results to win trophies.
Their slip ups won’t benefit us if we don’t win our games. Especially those we are supposed to win.
Probably.
People assume things will get better from here – but will they?
Some players are not performing like they have in the past.
It’s far too early to suggest that Arsenal out of the title race.
The focus will need to be on ensuring consistency of performances from now on. Hopefully, this should translate into results.
We will probably need to go into the transfer market if there are funds available as the squad is still limited in some areas.
I find it so sad that there are still Arsenal fans out there hanging on to the hope that both City and Liverpool drop points, which on occasion they may do.
But you can bet your bottom dollar that Arsenal certainly will.
Fellow Arsenal fans I know its hard, but except the inevitable and just get used to the fact that were not going to be winning the league this season or any other season for that matter, while Arteta’s in charge.
I read on another page that Edu is leaving, here’s hoping that Arteta’s not far behind.