Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta has come out to say that the English Premier League title race is no longer in their hands. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, it was a very painful defeat vs West Ham, and he is extremely disappointed to have dropped all 3 points at the Emirates stadium.
Arteta added that his boys will need to feel the pain as well because that is football.
His words, “It is painful but this is sport. We need to feel the pain today, I think we deserve that.
It’s not in our hands. I’m really really annoyed of the things that were in our hands. Very disappointed. Obviously very angry as well. You have to congratulate West Ham for the victory. For as well a lot on our side. It didn’t allow us to get enough momentum.”
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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.
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