Despite Arsenal’s brilliant run of form in the Premier League this season, most fans and pundits still believe Manchester City will beat them to the title.
If Arsenal wins their outstanding game, the Gunners will open up an eight-point gap on the defending champions and they have shown a good amount of consistency this term.
The Gunners have beaten the likes of Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester United, which clearly shows they are up to something great.
However, for most people, Mikel Arteta’s side will still bottle the lead, but the former Aston Villa man Gabby Agbonlahor asks, what if City does not go on a long winning run? He tells Talk Sport:
“Everyone keeps saying this: ‘I think Manchester City are going to hit a run of form.’ What if they don’t?
“I feel like the Premier League now, there is no easy game. You look at Arsenal going to Everton thinking: ‘they have a new manager, but we’ve got Saka and Martinelli, we would get result.’
“No they don’t. Manchester City, Pep tried to play some of his fringe players, keeping the best player on the bench and they lose to Spurs.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
We have benefited from being doubted for much of this term because it puts all the pressure on Manchester City and frees us to play our game, winning as many matches as possible.
Hopefully, our players will recover well from the loss to Everton and win their next games.
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The recent predicament Citizens has found their self in might just provide enough distractions to ease them off the pace.
But their neighbors may just be winding up for a late kick
People seem to give City far too much respect.
They say things like “City’s squad has greater strength in depth, full of world class players” and yet, we see the guy quoted above saying that their manager “tried to play fringe players” – which is the exact opposite. All this while they’re reduced to a squad of just 19.
It would also seem strange for Guardiola to rest players for a match-up where City has lost every time they’ve gone to that venue. They’re 0-5 at the TH Stadium now without ever scoring a goal there. Guardiola must know that, so he wouldn’t be resting payers for that game if he had a choice.
People claim City now have just nineteen squad players oftop level. But when I saw a week or so ago, their eleven starters plus all the subs they had listed, that squad was definitely of far deeper quality than ours is.
We have only around 16 REAL first class players available, when all are fit. Others in our squad are a definite lower level down.
So Citys squad is underrated at our peril.
The next two games for Arsenal will be massive, forget squads and bottling it. The next two game we can be our of sight or second.
Out of sight.