Mikel Arteta says he nonetheless believes Arsenal can win the Premier League title regardless of sitting 11 factors behind Liverpool.
The Gunners’ and Liverpool’s win over Manchester Metropolis on Sunday widened the hole between the 2 golf equipment.
It has led to many declaring the title race over, however Arteta hit again at these solutions.
“It’s been extremely satisfying to work daily with the gamers and the coaches and the employees to attempt to overcome sure conditions,” he stated.
“If anyone instructed you at first of the season by this time you will have performed 5 instances with a pink card, over half an hour in every of these video games, and you’ve got misplaced this quantity of gamers what’s the guess that you’re in the course of the desk at the least? And you’re out of the Champions League?
“That’s not the state of affairs. That tells you the resilience, the assets, the ambition that the staff have and that each particular person has, and that has been in all probability in my time right here, one of many proudest moments to work in that sense.
“The factor is that when you find yourself there, you need an increasing number of and extra. I’m not going to cease. Over my lifeless physique. We (can’t) cease pondering that means and cease placing all the pieces we probably can to extend that chance of us profitable and being higher than the opponent and hitting that efficiency stage and the requirements always, no matter what occurs.”
Requested if he genuinely believes Arsenal can nonetheless win the league, Arteta added: “If not I’ll go house then guys.
“Mathematically it’s attainable. We’re there. Three days in the past we have been closing the hole and we have been one-and-a-half video games away. It doesn’t matter. We’ve to proceed to go.
“The problem is increased than three days in the past but when we need to win the Premier League we’re going to should do one thing particular, with the circumstances we’ve got, and possibly do one thing that nobody else has carried out within the historical past of the Premier League.”
