Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said that his players are more convinced than ever that they can clinch the EPL title. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, his squad remains focused on the ultimate prize despite the defeat at the Etihad Stadium, so he is not worried about any perceived shift in momentum.
Insisting that his boys are still confident, Arteta added that he doesn’t need to lift his players’ spirits ahead of the final five-game sprint to the finish line.
His words, “I believe today, I believed on Wednesday, a week ago because I see them every day and I know the level that we have. But today if [the players] need to be more convinced, I think they are now more convinced. They were talking about it in the dressing room.
It’s a new league now. They have a game in hand. We have three points of advantage and five games to play. So everything is still to play for. We’re not going to stop and we’re going to go again, that’s for sure.
We came here to win the game. I think the message was clear from three days before. We prepared to do that, to take the game to the areas that we believe we could win it. We certainly done that, even though we started the game with a goal down and psychologically we had to play with that. We’ve done it. So we proved that we are there. But the reality is in the two boxes today was a difference and that’s what decided the game.
I mean if I have to pick the players to win the Premier League with five games to go in our hands and be in the final of the Champions League, I think I should be at home. So it’s not the case. It’s not needed. It’s never been needed, even in difficult moments.
It’s a new league now. Everything is still to play for.”
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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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