Arsenal Will Not Bottle EPL Title This Season – Gary Neville

Manchester United legend Gary Neville has delivered his verdict on Arsenal’s Premier League title hopes this season. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he believes Arsenal will not bottle the league title this time around, despite Manchester City closing in on the Gunners in recent weeks.

Neville added that even though Pep is still the benchmark in the run-in, Arsenal now possess the resilience and maturity required to cope with the demands of a genuine title fight.

His words, “City are dangerous. They’ve got Haaland, and they’ve got Pep Guardiola. Somebody very special on the pitch, and somebody very special on the bench. That is the biggest threat to Arsenal, other than them getting injuries to, say, Declan Rice or a couple of other players.

Arsenal, I think, wouldn’t be too worried about the fact they’ve scraped through these last couple of games, that happens. They weren’t great at Everton last night, but were they ever going to be amazing there?”

What will be really interesting is how they handle it when we get to March, April, May. That is where it’ll get really interesting. I feel like going into February or March, Arsenal will extend their lead, is my honest view. I think they’ll get back to five, six points again.

I feel it’s their year. They were always going to get closed down a little bit by City. They might be completely and utterly embarrassed if Pep Guardiola and Haaland and Co. could go and win the league again this year. City fans are getting confident. They’re thinking it’s their year, they’re thinking ‘here we go, we’re close, they’re going to bottle it come March, April, May’, but I’m not sure this Arsenal team will bottle it this time.”

WOW.

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.