Draw Against Brentford Is A Point Gained – Rice

Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice has urged the club to block out the outside noise ahead of the upcoming EPL matches. He recently had his say after the Gunners missed the opportunity to move six points clear at the top of the Premier League with a 1-1 draw at Brentford.

According to him, he and his teammates were never naive enough to think that Brentford would be pushovers at home, so they’ll turn their focus to the difficult matches ahead.

Rice added that Arsenal players will keep concentrating on controlling the controllable, while believing in themselves to finally win the EPL after so many years.

His words, “In this journey you are never going to be at the level for 70 games of the season but you have to be at the best you can.

The small details, the basics. This is a rollercoaster of a season. You can’t be naïve to think this is going to be easy.

We are playing against the best teams week in, week out. We have to keep pushing and believing in ourselves, controlling the controllable.

We have to block out the outside noise. We have done that really well. People are going to talk up the title race and Arsenal but we have a really calm group.

I’m not naïve to think Brentford are a pushover. They are one of the best teams in the league and their recent form shows that. It’s a point gained in our journey but we wanted to win the game.”

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Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.

After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.

In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season. Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.